A Writer's Guide to New Haven

Ives Main is the public library's main branch, on the New Haven Green. Its four tutor rooms, on the lower level of the Technology Center, are free and first come, first served, and studying is one of their listed uses. Writing groups can book a program or seminar room. It is closed Sundays.

The Fair Haven branch has two free tutor rooms. A writing group that outgrows them can book the community program room, which seats 75. Book both through the branch.

Wilson has two ten-seat conference rooms and a community program room for 90, all free to book through the branch. There is a computer lab, too.

Visitors can use Sterling's public first floor, including the Nave and two exhibition galleries. Evening entry and the group study rooms require a Yale ID. Researchers come for the Manuscripts and Archives Reading Room, and Sterling also has an American Studies Reading Room.

The Beinecke's exhibition hall is open to walk-in visitors daily. To work with the collections, register as a researcher; registration is open to readers from outside Yale, and the reading room is on the court level. Its curatorial areas include the Yale Collection of American Literature and the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection.

Haas has a two-level reading room with large tables and couches for quiet study. On weekends and Monday-to-Thursday evenings, entry through the Loria Center requires a Yale ID. Book artists should look at Arts Library Special Collections, which hold artists' books and volumes on fine printing and typography.

Atticus is an independent bookstore and café on the ground floor of the Yale Center for British Art building, and it is open daily. The shelves run to fiction and nonfiction. The café's bread is baked in-house. It also stocks natural wine and local beer.

Possible Futures calls itself an independent neighborhood bookspace. With local art on the walls and a coffee bar, it feels like a living room. Its Book Joy Fund lets neighbors shop for free and helps the store bring book events to schools.

Volunteers from the Never Ending Books collective run Volume Two as a free bookstore and event space. The books are free, and donations are welcome. Anyone can book the space.

The Institute Library is a membership library with quiet reading areas and a large circulating collection. Upstairs is a gallery. It is closed Sundays and Mondays.

Spruce is an all-day coffee shop, open daily, that calls itself a third space for studying and working. There are couches, and a vendor corner where local artists sell their work. Its open mic nights include poetry.

Common Grounds hand-roasts its coffee and keeps this café open daily, with evening hours on weekdays. The company describes its shops as places to work or to meet friends.

Mory's calls itself a Yale tradition. The main dining room serves lunch and dinner; reserve by phone or email. The Temple Bar opens in the late afternoon, and Mory's is closed Sundays and Mondays.

The Yale Cabaret stages new plays and experimental work, and The Kitchen at the Cabaret serves a full dinner before its evening performances. Diners can keep eating once the show starts. Book dinner through the theater's reservation form.

The Owl Shop is a cigar lounge with a full bar and a coffee bar that serves food. It hosts live music and evening events.

Listen Here!, the Institute Library's short-story reading series, brings readers in once a month, and the library also hosts Research in Action lectures. Planning a launch? The library rents out its space for one.

The Yale Writers' Workshop is a five-day program for writers at every level, whether they are starting a project or refining a manuscript. Small workshops in fiction and nonfiction leave time to write and revise. Visiting authors and publishing professionals take part as well. Alumni can join online writing groups.

Arts & Ideas is a citywide New Haven festival, and its programs include intimate conversations with writers and other artists. It also runs a Big Read program. Its site hosts Ideas Program videos and the Great Art, Big Ideas podcast.

The Arts Council keeps a public events calendar that lists readings and book talks, and you can submit your own. It publishes the Arts Paper on local arts and culture. Writers looking for opportunities can browse Culturalyst, its artist directory and opportunities listings. The council also offers fiscal sponsorship.

The Center for the Book, a program of CT Humanities, is the state affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. Connecticut authors can join its CT Authors directory. Its For Writers directory lists MFA programs and writer-in-residence programs, among other resources.

The Whitney is Yale's center for humanities research across disciplines. Its Whitney Publishing Project supports scholars from a first article to a first book, and the Hilles Publication Fund helps early-career Yale humanities faculty cover the costs of getting a book into print. It also runs fellowships and interdisciplinary working groups. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are among its lecture series.

The Institute of Sacred Music awards long- and short-term fellowships at every career stage. Scholars and artists apply, and so do religious leaders. Fellows pursue their own projects in fields such as sacred music or religion and the arts, using Yale's resources, and they have chances to teach.

CT Humanities makes grants to libraries and museums, among other cultural organizations. The Connecticut Center for the Book is one of its programs.

Yale University Press publishes serious works meant to further scholarly investigation and to stimulate public debate. Its list includes the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The press also has an office in London.

New Testament Studies publishes original articles and short studies on the New Testament and early Christianity, from origins and context to the history of interpretation. Cambridge University Press publishes it under the auspices of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. The editor, Teresa Morgan, is at Yale Divinity School. Preparing an article for New Testament Studies

Environmental Science & Technology is the American Chemical Society's journal for environmental research where chemistry and engineering meet public health and data science. Its topics run from emerging contaminants and drinking water to air quality and climate solutions. Editor-in-Chief Julie B. Zimmerman is at Yale University. Preparing an article for Environmental Science & Technology

The Journal of International Economics publishes theoretical and empirical research in all areas of international economics, including trade patterns, commercial policy, exchange rates, open-economy macroeconomics, and international finance. Its editors are at Yale University and Columbia University, and it is published by Elsevier. Preparing an article for Journal of International Economics

Founded in 1966, Inventiones mathematicae publishes new contributions across all core areas of mathematics. Its managing editors are based at Yale University and ETH Zurich, and it is published by Springer. Preparing an article for Inventiones mathematicae

The Yale Law Journal publishes legal scholarship as articles, essays, comments, notes, features, reviews, and tributes, and its online Forum carries shorter discussion of law and legal scholarship. Founded in 1891, it is edited by students at Yale Law School and published by The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc. Preparing an article for The Yale Law Journal

Sage Open Nursing is an open access journal covering all aspects of nursing and patient care across nursing specialties and related disciplines. It is edited at the Yale School of Medicine and published by Sage. Preparing an article for Sage Open Nursing

Poets of any age who live in the United States and have yet to publish a book of poetry can enter this Yale University Press competition. An established poet judges the entries anonymously. The winner's book comes out from the press with an advance, and the winner also receives a writing fellowship at the James Merrill House in Stonington.

The Beinecke Library administers the Windham-Campbell Prizes, global prizes for writing in English in fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry. They honor a body of work or outstanding promise and give writers time to focus on their work. Candidates are nominated confidentially, by invitation.

The Bollingen Prize recognizes the lifetime achievement of a senior American poet. The Beinecke Library administers it.

Yale Library's Willis Prize, administered by the Beinecke, honors a book of American poetry. Poets at any career stage can win it.

The residency gives a writer living and working space in James Merrill's former home in Stonington, Connecticut, to complete a project of literary or academic merit.

This page gathers research funding for Yale undergraduates and graduate students, along with the campus writing centers.

Quinnipiac's page covers summer research stipends and small grants, plus help with writing and theses.

The University of New Haven page covers summer fellowships and the honors thesis, along with the campus Writing Center.

The Beinecke's Short-Term Research Fellowships and its Research Fellowships for Graduate Students fund onsite research in Yale Library Special Collections. Researchers can apply whatever their affiliation. Creative and interdisciplinary projects are welcome alongside archival and bibliographic work.

Creative Arts Workshop is a visual arts education center with a printmaking studio and a gallery. Its adult bookbinding class teaches a hardcover pop-up accordion book. Enrollment includes a weekly open bench session with a monitor on hand.