14 Sep One Story Fellowship Opportunity for Recent Grads! Closes Oct 11, 2023
https://one-story.com/learn/fellowship/
The Fellow Receives:
- Access to One Story online classes.
- Admission to One Story’s Writing Circle.
- Stipend ($2,000) and free admission to One Story’s week-long summer writers’ conference, which includes craft lectures, an intensive fiction workshop, and panels with literary agents and publishers.
- A full manuscript review and consultation with One Story Executive Editor Hannah Tinti (story collection or novel in progress up to 150 pages/35,000 words).
Requirements
This fellowship calls for an early-career writer of fiction who has not yet published a book and is not currently nor has ever been enrolled in an advanced degree program (such as an MA or MFA) in Creative Writing, English, or Literature, and has no plans to attend one in the 2024 calendar year. We are seeking writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. This means writing that centers, celebrates, or reclaims being marginalized through the lens of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion, illness, disability, trauma, migration, displacement, dispossession, or imprisonment. All applicants must be at least 21 years of age as of January 1st, 2024. For complete eligibility details, please visit the FAQ at the bottom of this page.
Requirements
This fellowship calls for an early-career writer of fiction who has not yet published a book and is not currently nor has ever been enrolled in an advanced degree program (such as an MA or MFA) in Creative Writing, English, or Literature, and has no plans to attend one in the 2024 calendar year. We are seeking writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. This means writing that centers, celebrates, or reclaims being marginalized through the lens of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion, illness, disability, trauma, migration, displacement, dispossession, or imprisonment. All applicants must be at least 21 years of age as of January 1st, 2024. For complete eligibility details, please visit the FAQ at the bottom of this page.
Application Checklist
TO APPLY TO THIS FELLOWSHIP YOU WILL NEED:
- A fiction writing sample (3,000 – 5,000 words)
- A personal statement (600 – 1,100 words)
- Two professional or personal references who can speak to your commitment to writing (no recommendation letters required but please provide: name, email, phone)
- A current resume detailing any work or educational experience. Please also list any writing classes you have taken, along with writing-related awards, fellowships, publications, and residencies (if any).
- All applications will be received via Submittable
- There is NO FEE to apply to this fellowship
Deadlines
- Applications for our 2024 Fellowship open on September 6th, 2023 and close October 11th, 2023.
- The winner of the 2024 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship will be publicly announced in January 2024