Funding Your Writing Getaway and More: Residencies & Merit Fellowships (with Kim Coleman Foote) - ONLINE
Have you considered applying for a writing residency or funding for your writing but don’t know how to begin? Have you thought about giving up applying because you keep getting rejected? Or maybe you’ve asked yourself, “Why go away to write when I can do it at home?” This session is for writers of all levels who are curious about residencies and who seek money for writing expenses (or living expenses, or truly whatever!). Through lecture, a shared handout, a personal statement writing exercise, and Q&A, we’ll cover types of residencies that are available, how to search for both residencies and fellowships, creating a winning application, and why you might consider leaving that cozy home office. Limited to 15 writers.
WHEN: 2 Hours: Saturday, October 21 (1 - 3pm EST)
WHERE: Online, via Zoom video conference
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Kim Coleman Foote is the author of the novel, Coleman Hill (SJP Lit/Zando, September 2023). She has received writing fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Phillips Exeter Academy, Center for Fiction, Yaddo, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, and elsewhere. She also received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research for a novel in Ghana. Her fiction appears most recently in The Best American Short Stories 2022.
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