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Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts

For the last forty years, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown has run the largest and longest residency Fellowship in the United States for emerging visual artists and writers. Artists who have not had significant recognition for their work and writers who have not yet published a full-length book of creative work are welcome to apply. 

Fellows receive a seven-month stay (October 1 -May 1) at the Work Center and a $750 monthly stipend. Fellows do not pay or work in exchange for their fellowships in any way.

Fellows are chosen based on the excellence of their work. Former visual arts Fellows include Ellen Gallagher, Jack Pierson, Lisa Yuskavage, Angela Dufresne, Geoffrey Chadsey, and Lamar Peterson. Former writing Fellows have won every major national award in writing including the National Book Award and seven Pulitzer Prizes. Former writing Fellows include Denis Johnson, Louise Glück, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Yusef Komunyakaa.

The postmark deadline for the 2012-13 Writing Fellowships is December 1, 2011.

For details, please visit our website.

Initiated in 1998, the Stadler Fellowships offer a recent MFA, MA, or PhD graduate in poetry the opportunity to receive professional training in arts administration and literary editing. The Stadler Fellowships are designed to balance the development of professional skills with time to complete a first book of poems. The Stadler Fellows assist for twenty hours each week in the administration of the Stadler Center for Poetry and/or in the editing of West Branch, Bucknell's nationally distinguished literary journal. The Fellows also work as staff members and instructors in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in June.

The Fellowship stipend is $20,000. In addition, each Fellow is provided health insurance, office space in the Stadler Center, and housing. Depending on circumstances, Fellows are either housed in a furnished apartment in the Poet's Cottage or provided with a stipend to seek housing on their own in Lewisburg.

In Fall 2011, the Stadler Center will be accepting applications for a 2012-13 Stadler Fellowship. The Fellowship will extend from August 2012 to June 2013, with the possibility of renewing for a second year. The application deadline is October 1, 2011. For eligibility and application requirements, and to submit an application, please visit the SCP Application Portal.

(Portal will open to receive applications as of September 1, 2011)

Visit the website for application procedures.

Vermont Studio Center Fellowships
Sixteen fellowships for a 4-week residency are open to all artists and writers based on merit, as represented in the portfolio or manuscript.

Anderson/Frankel Fellowship for Chicago area/SAIC alumni
One fellowship sponsored by the Marshall Frankel Foundation and Davis Anderson, this award is open to all Chicago-area artists, including faculty and alumni of the Art Institute of Chicago, for one 4-week VSC residency.

Civil Society Institute Fellowship
One award for a 4-week residency open to an east coast minority artist with demonstrable financial need; preference will be given to artists from New Haven, Jersey City, and Baltimore. The $25 application fee is waived for eligible CSI applicants. Award includes a $500 travel stipend.

Cave Canem Fellowship
This annual fellowship provides one 4-week residency to a poet who is a Cave Canem fellow. Home for the many voices of African American poetry, Cave Canem is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.

Pollock Krasner
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/VSC Fellowship Program for visual artists of outstanding talent will support two 4-week residencies for domestic artists.

Henry David Thoreau Fellowship
This fellowship supports a poet whose work is a living extension of the literary tradition embodied in the work of Henry David Thoreau, for a 4-week residency.

Zoland Translation Fellowship
Offered in conjunction with Zoland Poetry, this 4-week residency fellowship is open to translators. Applicants should submit 3 copies of the original poems/translations, along with a description of English-language rights, author bio, and translator CV.

Emerging Writers Fellowship

The Writer's Center, metropolitan Washington, D.C.'s community gathering place for writers and readers, is currently accepting submissions for several competitive Emerging Writer Fellowships for Fall 2011. We welcome submissions from writers of all genres, backgrounds, and experiences in the following genres: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Emerging Writer Fellows will be featured at The Writer's Center as part of Story/Stereo, our Emerging Writers Reading Series and live music fusion events. The readings, held on Friday evenings, bring together writers and some of the area's best local musicians. You can learn more about Story/Stereo by visiting our website.

Selected Fellows may be invited to lead a special Saturday workshop at The Writer's Center, with compensation commensurate with standard Writer's Center provisions.

Fellows receive an all-inclusive honorarium of $250 to help offset their travel costs.
Fellows for Spring 2011 include poet Susanna Lang (Even Now); nonfiction writer Eli Hastings (Falling Room); and fiction writers Matthew Pitt (Attention Please Now), James Hannaham (God Says No), Andrew Foster Altschul (Deus Ex Machina), and Merrill Feitell (Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes).

Emerging Writer Fellows will:
•--have 1 or 2 full-length single-author books published in a single genre, and no more than 3 books published to their credit (including as editors of anthologies) in any genre. Chapbooks and pamphlets will not be calculated into an author's total publication record and cannot be substituted for a full-length single-author book. Self-published titles or vanity press titles are not admissible and will not be considered.
•--be judged in the category in which their submitted creative selection falls. In cases of cross-genre work or multiple-genre work, our staff will determine the genre of consideration.
--have published books "in hand" or be in the uncorrected proof stage of publication at the time of their submission.

To be considered, please send:
•--a one-page letter of interest that includes the name of your creative selection and a short bio
•--a resume or CV that details publication history and familiarity facilitating group discussions or workshops
•--a creative selection from your most recent published book-length work in a Word document or RTF format:
•--Poetry: up to 10 pages of poems (1 poem per page).
•--Fiction & Nonfiction: up to 16 pages of text double-spaced with 1-inch margins.
•--Your creative selection does not need to be one excerpt, but can be comprised of multiple sections or excerpts up to but not exceeding the total page limit.

A committee comprised of The Writer's Center board members, workshop leaders, and members will evaluate submissions on behalf of our community of writers.

The deadline to submit is April 15, 2011.
Applicants are welcome to contact Kyle Semmel, Publications & Communications Manager, with questions or for more information at 301-654-8664 or by e-mail at:

kyle.semmel(at)writer.org (replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail).

Please send your submission materials to Zachary Fernebok at:

The Writer's Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815

The Writer's Center, established in 1976, is one of the nation's oldest and largest literary centers, dedicated to cultivating the creation, publication, presentation, and dissemination of literary work. We provide over 60 free public events and more than 250 writing workshops each year, sell one of the largest selections of literary magazines in our on-site bookstore, and publish Poet Lore, America's oldest continually published poetry journal.

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By: Kathy Temean, on 2/1/2011
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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS LITERATURE FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/Lit/index.html

DEADLINE:  March 3, 2011

Applicants are required to use Grants.gov. See “How to Prepare and Submit an Application” for further information.

The NEA Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants
in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to
published creative writers that enable the recipients to set
aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career
advancement. The NEA Literature Fellowships program operates
on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry
available in alternating years. For FY 2012, which is covered
by these guidelines, fellowships in prose are available. 

Fellowships in poetry will be offered in FY 2013 and guidelines
will be available in January 2012. Individuals may apply only
once each year.

Direct questions to the Literature staff at
202/682-5034 or e-mail [email protected] .

Applicants may use digital, audio, or online publications to establish
up to fifty percent of their eligibility, provided that such
publications have competitive selection processes and stated
editorial policies. Works where the writer paid for publication
are not eligible in the qualifying process.

Hope someone applies.  Make it happen.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

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Initiated in 1998, the Stadler Fellowship offers a recent MFA, MA,or PhD graduate in poetry the opportunity to receive professional training in arts administration and literary editing. The Stadler Fellowship is designed to balance the development of professional skills with time to complete a first book of poems. The Stadler Fellow assists for twenty hours each week in the administration of the Stadler Center for Poetry and/or in the editing of West Branch, a nationally distinguished semiannual literary magazine. The Fellow also works as an instructor and staff member in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in June.  

The Fellowship stipend is $20,000. In addition,the Fellow is provided a furnished apartment on campus, office space in the Stadler Center, and health insurance.

In Fall 2010, the Stadler Center will be accepting applications 2011-12 Stadler Fellowship. The Fellowship will extend from August 2011 to June 2012, with the possibility of renewing for a second year. 

The application deadline is January 10, 2011.

For eligibility and application requirements, and to submit an application, please use the SCP Application Portal, found here.

In 2006 the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston was asked to direct The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House. Imagine spending up to three months in this spacious classic eighteenth-century, four-story stone residence in the village of Ménerbes, France in the Luberon area of Provence.  The town house was once occupied by Général Baron Robert, one of Napoleon’s well-decorated generals in the Republican Army.

In 1944 Pablo Picasso purchased the four-story mansion for Dora Maar, an artist and surrealist photographer who was his companion and muse in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Dora Maar owned the house until her death in 1997, when a resident of both Ménerbes, France, and Houston, Texas, purchased the house and began a five-year rehabilitation project to update the spacious residence and gardens.

Her goal was to make it a retreat for scholars, artists, or writers, where they could work undisturbed on their research, art, or writing for one to three months.

If you are an outstanding mid-career professional, you could apply for a fellowship to enable you to reside in the Dora Maar House and focus on the creative aspects of your work.

The Dora Maar House has four private bedrooms, each with a private bath, three studies for writers and scholars, a studio for artists, and a piano. There are shared kitchen, library, living and dining rooms, along with two beautiful gardens. The house is equipped with high-speed wireless internet, printer, fax, and laptops for the fellows’ convenience.

I definitely think I could be inspired writing on that garden patio.  I bet you could, too.

Travel expenses are paid by the foundation and fellows receive $50 a day for living expenses. 

Here is the link to apply:  Forms to apply

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

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