Funding Your Writing: Applying for Grants, Residencies, Fellowships, & Other Opportunities (Joy Baglio) - ONLINE
Every year, I get a number of writers reaching out, asking about how to make their grant / residency / fellowship / [other opportunity] application more competitive, what to include on a budget for a grant, what's the difference between an artist statement and project proposal, and a number of other application-related questions, and I always find myself with far too much to say on this topic. As a writer who has applied widely over the years to every kind of opportunity, faced substantial rejection yet also won many of these opportunities, I've thought a lot about what makes an application stand out to selection committees. The answers may vary slightly based on the mission of the organization, yet in a number of big ways, the answers are also the same for almost all. In this two-hour workshop, I'll share what I've learned about applying to project-specific grants (that offer funding and require a proposal letter), artist residencies (that offer time, space, and often funding to write), scholarships (that offer attendance to a program or conference), and other competitive opportunities. We'll talk about the difference between proposal letters and artist statements and what should be present in each. We'll go over how to create an impressive budget (which is requested in some specific grant applications, such as The Elizabeth George Foundation's application). We'll talk about how to select strong work samples. I'll share resources I've developed when I've presented at conferences on this topic, as well as my own artist statements, proposal letters, and budgets, as examples. We'll also spend some time working on crafting statements as well, the core kernel of which can be used across many different kinds of applications. There will also be time at the end to answer any remaining questions, and attendees will leaves with clarity and confidence around what makes a competitive application / proposal. For writers of all levels and genres. Visual artists and non-writers welcome too. Limited to 15 attendees.
WHEN: 2 Hours: Saturday, April 1, 2022 (1 - 3pm EST)
WHERE: Online, via Zoom video conference
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
JOY BAGLIO (BAH - lee - oh) is a speculative-literary fiction writer and proud Leo living in Northampton, MA. Her short stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Tin House, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, New Ohio Review, PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. Recent honors include fellowships from Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Speculative Literature Foundation, and the Kerouac Project (upcoming spring 2023). Joy has also been a recent scholar at the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences. She holds an MFA from The New School and is the founder of the literary arts organization Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop. She is at work on a genre-bending collection of short stories and two novels and is represented by Peter Steinberg at United Talent Agency (UTA) and Sean Daily (for film/TV) at Hotchkiss, Daily, & Associates. Follow her on Twitter at @JoyBaglio.
WORKSHOP GOALS
- To fully understand what most organizations look for when reviewing applications for grants, fellowships, residencies, and other awards/opportunities
- To internalize key strategies about crafting proposals, artist statements, budgets, and CVs
- To begin crafting a compelling artist statement, or rework a previous one, in response to exercises and guidance in class
- To connect, share, and learn from others' experiences through group discussion
- To have all questions answered about this process
RECEIVING THE ZOOM LINK: For one-day workshops, we send out the link to attend the Zoom session 1 - 2 days before the event, via email. For multi-week workshops, you should receive info and the link about a week before the first meeting. Please mark your calendars and look for our emails. If you don't see the email in your inbox on the day before the event (or a few days before, in the case of multi-week workshops), please check your spam and junk mail folders (and search all folders) for an email from joy@pioneervalleywriters.org. We have found that very often our emails end up in those folders. This is based on your own email settings, and you can prevent this by adding our email as a contact.
ONLINE SESSIONS happen remotely, via Zoom video conference. All you need is a laptop, computer, or phone with functioning audio and a webcam. Those who RSVP receive directions and a link to "join" the session via email (please see above note about receiving the Zoom link). All online instructors will log on to the video conference 10 minutes before the start of the session, to help anyone with technical issues, so please plan to log on early if you'd like assistance! We'll do everything in our power to help you get comfortable with this new format, though when the session begins, we will not be able to assist with technical difficulties.
REFUND & CREDIT POLICIES AT PVWW
If you withdraw from a workshop ten days or more before the start of the class: You'll receive full credit toward another workshop OR a full refund. If you withdraw from a workshop nine days before the start of the class up until 48 hours before: You'll receive a refund minus 20%. If you withdraw from a workshop less than 48 hours before the start of a class or after the class has begun: We are not able to offer you credit toward another class or any refund, unless in the case of a medical emergency, or if we are able to fill your spot. If you are absent on the day of your workshop or miss it for any reason, we are unable to offer any kind of refund. If we have to cancel a class for any reason, you will receive a full refund, or if you choose, credit in the amount of your payment, to be used for any future PVWW class. Anyone who does not specify whether they would like a refund or a credit for a cancelled class will automatically be refunded. Please contact Joy (joy@pioneervalleywriters.org) for all matters concerning credit and refunds.