{"id":6972,"date":"2026-05-25T16:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:24:47","slug":"third-updike-casitas-fellow-now-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/05\/25\/third-updike-casitas-fellow-now-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Updike Casitas fellow now in residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taylor Brown<\/strong>, whose novel-in-progress <em>Rise, River, Rise<\/em> rose to the top of the applicant pool for the 2026 John Updike Tucson Casitas Fellowship, is now at the casitas where Updike worked in a number of genres and famously described losing a favorite hat in the parking lot (&#8220;A Desert Encounter,&#8221; <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, Oct. 13, 2008). The two-week residency is made possible by the generosity of owners Jan and Jim Emery, who rent the casitas for much of the year. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/grants-scholarships-and-awards\/\">Grants, Scholarships &amp; Awards page for details about next year&#8217;s competition.<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6973\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-23-at-7.08.32-AM-1024x792.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-23-at-7.08.32-AM-1024x792.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-23-at-7.08.32-AM-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-23-at-7.08.32-AM-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-23-at-7.08.32-AM-1536x1188.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-23-at-7.08.32-AM-388x300.png 388w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-23-at-7.08.32-AM.png 1552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Brown, whose novel-in-progress Rise, River, Rise rose to the top of the applicant pool for the 2026 John Updike Tucson Casitas Fellowship, is now at the casitas where Updike worked in a number of genres and famously described losing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/05\/25\/third-updike-casitas-fellow-now-in-residence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-updike-tucson-casitas-fellowship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6978,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions\/6978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}