The Awarded Residency Fellowships 2025
The Studio Faire Residency Fellowships provide accommodation and practical support to two separate creative practitioners for a 2-week period in 2026.
The fellowships were funded by generous donations from supporters of Studio Faire.
We received 96 applications for the fellowships, which we reviewed individually to create a shortlist of 20 applications that we agreed were all highly talented creatives, had great proposals and seemed deserving of this opportunity.
We then had the tricky task of whittling this fantastic list down to just 2 finalists.
And they are…
Laura Theis
Originally from Germany, now based in Oxford, England, Laura Theis is a writer and musician. Her poetry debut, ‘How to Extricate Yourself’ (Dempsey&Windle 2020) was selected as the winner of the 2020 Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize by the Poetry Society’s Paul McGrane, chosen as an Oxford Poetry Library Book of the Month, and nominated for an Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA).
Also in 2020, she was awarded the five-figure Mogford Short Story Prize when her winning story ‘The Lift’ was selected by the judges Stephen Fry and Prue Leith out of 1,280 worldwide entries!
Her second book, ‘A Spotter’s Guide to Invisible Things’ (2023) received the Live Canon Collection Prize and the Society of Authors’ Arthur-Welton-Award.
She has been awarded and been a finalist for numerous other prizes since. Her latest publication is her collection ‘Introduction to Cloud Care’ (Broken Sleep Books) and her children’s debut ‘Poems from a Witch’s Pocket’ (Emma Press) is forthcoming in autumn 2025.
Though Laura has had much success with her writing, she’s been struggling to focus on her creative work due to a difficult period of injury, loss, and other commitments. She’s eager to work on her fifth poetry collection and desperate for the time and environment to do so, and we at Studio Faire felt that she was particularly deserving of the support of this Fellowship at this time to help propel this next collection forward.
Daniel Uncapher
Currently based in Salt Lake City in the US, Daniel Uncapher is a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah, with an MFA from Notre Dame, where he was a Nicholas Sparks Fellow.
His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Sun (Pushcart Prize Special Mention), The Georgia Review, Cincinnati Review, West Branch, Epoch, Chicago Review, The Kenyon Review, Cream City Review, and others. He received the 2024 Ninth Letter Award for Creative Nonfiction and has been supported by scholarships to Bread Loaf, Tin House, Kenyon workshops and the NYS Summer Writers’ Institute.
Daniel is a multi-genre writer with an emphasis on experimental forms and new media, particularly when it comes to creative non-fiction and the lyric essay. He has developed a process of collage, combining various elements from the public domain, to apply to his experimental non-fiction. He is currently developing a collection about the legacy of his queer father’s suicide.
As well as studying for his PhD, Daniel has been teaching for over seven years, including teaching on the first creative writing course at the maximum security ward of the state prison. He also volunteers as new media editor for Quarterly West and fiction editor for the Notre Dame Review. The majority of his low income is sucked up by the high rents in Salt Lake City and, without the aid of a Fellowship, a residency at Studio Faire would be out of reach at this stage in his career.
As a queer and disabled North Mississippian, Daniel promises to bring a unique literary and social inheritance to the Lot-et-Garonne. We look forward to welcoming him!