2025 Artivist Writer's Resident: Tirrea billings
One writer selected. One powerful journey.
Tirrea Billings is an artivist, educator, and storyteller who writes about the nonprofit industrial complex. She has a BA in film studies and an MA in communication from Western Michigan University. Her work focuses on amplifying voices that have been systematically excluded from mainstream conversations about power, policy, and change. Through her platform, philanthropy unfiltered, she writes openly about contradictions, dysfunction, and new opportunities within social justice work, creating space for practitioners, funders, and organizers to imagine more liberatory approaches. Tirrea believes in the potential of radically honest dialogue and the power of imagination to transform systems that better serve communities.
Be The Next Resident
2027 Applicationn Opens April
THE ARTIVIST WRITER'S WORKSHOP COHORT 2 coming 2027
the artivist writer's Workshop COHORT 2
The Artivist Writer's Workshop will return with Cohort 2! This is your space to finish that piece. To write with intention. To contribute to a future rooted in art, justice, and truth. Applications Open January 12, 2027
Applicants who apply should be a place for creative research practices, but where writers create experiences and a strong writing community that fosters impact, and must submit the literary work with their application that they plan to work toward completion, along with the publication, festival, network, streaming service, etc, they plan to submit the work to upon completion of the Artivist Writer's Workshop.
Applicant Requirements:
Applicants who apply should be is a place for creative research practices, but where writers create experiences and a strong writing community that fosters impact and must submit the literary work with their application that they plan to work toward completion, along with the publication, festival, network, streaming service, etc, they plan to submit the work to upon completion of the Artivist Writer's Workshop. Writers must commit to being present for all 10 weeks, with one absence allowed.
The Artivist Writer's Workshop is a place for creative research practices but where writers create experiences and a strong writing community that foster impact.
