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| The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust | Updated November 17th, 2008 |
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The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust in New York City has announced the creation of two awards for American playwrights in different stages of their careers. The Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award will honor a mid-career playwright whose body of work has already been recognized. With a cash prize of $200,000, it is believed be the largest award to honor American playwriting. The first award recipient will be announced this fall, and the prize will be awarded on a biennial basis thereafter. Beginning in 2009, the Steinberg Emerging Playwrights Award, also to be awarded biennially, will honor two early career playwrights whose professional work shows great promise; each recipient will receive a cash prize of $50,000. The trust has established an advisory committee of prominent theater professionals to determine the criteria for the awards, nominate playwrights, and select the recipients. The members of the committee are André Bishop, artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater; David Emmes, producing artistic director of South Coast Repertory; Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater; Polly K. Carl, producing artistic director of Playwrights Center; Martha Lavey, artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Eduardo Machado, playwright and artistic director of INTAR Theatre; and Marc Masterson, artistic director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville. send: see details |
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| CBS Diversity Institute Writers Mentoring Program | Updated November 17th, 2008 |
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Application must be NOTARIZED, so cannot sent through WordHustler. See website for details. There are many different paths writers can follow to get their first foothold in being hired in television. As part of its ongoing commitment to create additional access for writers of diverse backgrounds, CBS' Diversity Institute has launched a different kind of writers program, which highlights one of those paths. The focus of this six month program is on opening doors: providing opportunities to build relationships with network executives and show runners; to support new and emerging writers in their efforts to improve their craft; and to develop the interpersonal skills necessary to break in and succeed. The CBS Writers Mentoring Program is not employment and there is no monetary compensation. It is, instead, a structured program of career development, support, and personal access to executives and decision-making processes, with the goal of preparing aspiring writers for later employment opportunities in television. Eligibility The primary focus of CBS' Diversity Writers Mentoring Program is to provide access and opportunities for talented and motivated diverse writers with a focus on writers of color. Aspiring diverse writers with a strong desire to write for CBS television series are encouraged to apply. You must be 21 or older to be eligible. Application Materials Each submission must be complete in order to be considered. A complete application packet includes: * Application * Letter of Interest * Work Resume or Bio * Two (2) Writing Samples: one (1) original piece of work which can be a screenplay, a stage play or a short fiction story (no original television pilots will be accepted) and one (1) half hour or hour episode based on a current, primetime television series that aired new episodes on any network or cable channel during the 2006/07 season * A signed and notarized Submission Release form for the writing samples. send: see details |
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| Literary Gift of Freedom Grant | Updated November 17th, 2008 |
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The 2009 Literary Gift of Freedom Award will be given to an American woman writer who is a U.S. citizen and will be living in the U.S. during the grant period. Because the award is quite substantial, the application process is extensive. Applications must be postmarked on or before October 31, 2008. Acceptable genres for this grant are poetry, playwriting, creative nonfiction, and fiction. Must submit entire entry form, along with: - IRS forms - 3 essays - List of educational history (high school and post secondary) - List of prizes/awards/grants (if any) - List of publications (if any) - List of employment history - List of community service, current and past - Writing Sample (not to exceed 10 pages) send: see details |
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| Thornton Writing-in-Residence | Updated November 15th, 2008 |
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Please submit a cover letter indicating your interest in the residence, a curriculum vitae, teaching evaluations and a copy of your published work or works. The deadline for submitting materials for the fall writer-in-residence is March 15. The deadline for submitting materials for the spring poet-in-residence is September 1. Dr. Richard H. Thornton, 1907 alumnus of Lynchburg College, was a distinguished teacher, writer, and publisher. He became president of Henry Holt and Company publishers and established friendships with such writers as Carl Sandburg, Thomas Wolfe, and Vachel Lindsay. He was both editor and friend to Robert Frost. Since 1975 the endowment established in his name has made it possible for the Department of English to bring some of the most exciting and successful poets, novelists, dramatists, and nonfiction writers of our time to the College. These writers have taught classes, given readings, and enriched the cultural life of the campus. Among the writers to appear on campus over the last two decades are Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, John Knowles, Stephen Spender, Joseph Heller, Alice McDermott, James Baldwin, Cokie Roberts, Nikki Giovanni, Clive Barker, John Barth, Denise Levertov, Ellen Gilchrist, Jay McInerney, Gore Vidal, Tillie Olsen, Jamaica Kincaid, Peter Shaffer, Larry Brown, Jan DeBlieu, Lee Smith, Tobias Wolff, John Gardner, Nora Ephron, and Stanley Plumley. Each semester a writer comes to the College to teach an eight-week class. To ensure individualized instruction, the class size is limited to fifteen students. Eligibility is determined through submission of sample writings or by recommendation of a student's professor. Any student, regardless of major, can apply. Students often take more than one Thornton writing course during their four years, and academic credit earned can count toward an English major or toward elective hours, depending on the student's needs. The visiting writer also gives public readings, conducts other classes at the request of professors, and is available for private conferences with student and faculty writers. send: see details |
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| Martha Boscen Porter Fund | Updated November 12th, 2008 |
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Since 1987, the Martha Boschen Porter Fund has supported artists in the northwest Connecticut region with over 50 grants for a wide range of projects, including research for a novel, a travel grant to a photographer, funds to purchase a kiln, help a filmmaker complete a documentary film, support a composer developing a new work, and enable a dancer/choreographer to present her work. Applicants must have been full-time residents in the Berkshire Taconic region (Berkshire County, MA; Columbia County and northeast Dutchess County,* NY; Northwest Litchfield County,* CT) for two years prior to applying. Artists with a significant connection to the area are also welcome to apply. Artists who have received an award from the Boschen Fund may reapply no sooner than five years after the date of their previous award. Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation must receive applications to the Boschen Fund no later than 5 p.m. on February 1 and July 1. To apply, please send: 1. A completed application form. 2. A letter of up to two pages describing your work and what you plan to accomplish with a Boschen Fund grant. Please be specific about your proposed project as well as the medium and nature of your work. 3. A bio or resume including your date of birth, education, art training, and performance, gallery or publishing affiliations. 4. Samples of work you have completed within the last five years. Please label everything so that it may be returned if you choose. Work should be submitted on slides, on a CD or DVD (no more than 10 pages of a manuscript or music cued to a 10-minute segment). 5. A self-addressed stamped envelope for return of materials. send: see details |
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| tags: $1000+ prize Fiction grant non-fiction play poetry screenplay short story teleplay | |
| Djerassi Distinguished Fellowship in Playwriting | Updated November 12th, 2008 |
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The Carl Djerassi Distinguished Fellowship in Playwriting at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing was established by scientist and author Carl Djerassi to encourage playwrights whose work is not only performed, but also has intrinsic literary value. To realize Dr. Djerassi's vision, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Creative Writing Program and Department of Theatre and Drama have joined forces to invite playwrights to work and teach in a community where plays are read and discussed as works on the page as well as works on the stage. The Carl Djerassi Distinguished Fellowship in Playwriting will provide a stipend of $45,000 for a playwright in residence at UW Madison during the spring semester (approximately January 15-May 25). The playwright will also receive health benefits and office space in the suite where the Creative Writing faculty and the other fellows of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing are housed. During the residency, the fellow will teach one course in playwriting with no more than twelve students. The fellow will also have ample time to work on his or her own writing and will have the benefit of being a member of the writing and theater communities provided by the Institute, the Creative Writing Program, and the Department of Theatre and Drama. The ideal candidate will be a playwright whose work has been produced at major regional or professional theaters, who has university-level teaching experience, and who will make Madison his or her primary residence during the fellowship semester. Playwrights who have had work published as well as performed are of special interest. A terminal graduate degree (an MFA or PhD or equivalent) in any discipline is preferred. To be considered for the Djerassi Distinguished Fellowship in Playwriting please submit a letter of application, a course description or syllabus for a playwriting workshop, a vita or resume not to exceed 4 pages, the names and contact information for three recommenders (ideally, at least one of whom should be able to speak about your teaching), and a writing sample consisting of either one published play OR one manuscript of a play in progress. Please do not send any additional material. If you would like your material returned to you, you must include an SASE. send: see details |
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| AAS Fellowships for Historical Research | Updated October 28th, 2008 |
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The fellowships will provide the recipients with the opportunity for a period of uninterrupted research, reading, and collegial discussion at the Society, located in Worcester, Massachusetts. At least three fellowships will be awarded for residence of four weeks at the Society at any time during the period January 1 through December 31. The stipend will be $1,200, plus an allowance for travel expenses. Must start application process ONLINE only. A complete application for an AAS Fellowship for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers consists of the following materials: - Cover sheet - 2 letters of reference sent directly to AAS by individuals familiar with your career accomplishments and goals. A current resumé, including a listing of any awards, scholarships, or grants received. - A statement of not more than five typed, double spaced pages briefly summarizing the applicants educational and professional background and goals, describing the research for the project including readings in primary and secondary sources, and indicating the nature of the research program proposed for the AAS fellowship. - 10 copies of representative samples of previous works must be included for distribution to the selection committee. Written works (play and video scripts; prose and poetry; works of non-fiction, etc.) cannot exceed 25 pages in length. You are welcome to send two or three copies of full, completed works in addition to the 25-page sample. You are strongly encouraged to include any relevant reviews of your work by professional critics. send: see details specifically: Historical & Criticism |
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| tags: $1000+ prize Fiction article biography creative non-fiction educational history literary narrative nonfiction no entry fee non-fiction novel play poetry restricted entry screenplay | |
| Oregon Literary Fellowships | Updated October 17th, 2008 |
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Oregon Literary Fellowships are intended to help Oregon writers initiate, develop or complete literary projects in poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature. Writers in the early stages of their career are encouraged to apply. The awards are merit-based, and the minimum award amount is $2,500. Must be a resident of Oregon. Recipients must be current, full-time Oregon residents, both at the time of application and at receipt of award. • Those who have received an Oregon Literary Fellowship in the last five years, or have won an Oregon Book Award in the previous year, are ineligible. • Those who have received an aggregate of $10,000 or more in literary grants in the last three years are ineligible (scholarships and teaching fellowships are not considered “literary grants”). • One application per person per year will be accepted. • Female applicants may choose to be considered for the Women Writers Fellowship (addendum to application required). These applicants may receive one or the other, but not both fellowships. • For writers fellowships, work authored by more than one person is ineligible. • Literary Arts staff, trustees or advisory committee members are precluded from consideration; however, if a trustee or advisory committee member takes a leave of absence, from the day an application is submitted until the January announcement, the application is eligible. Please include the following items in your fellowship application (collated; see below): • Two copies of the Fellowship to Writers application form. • Two copies of Women Writers Fellowship addendum (optional). • Two copies of a sample of work copies of a sample of work consisting of not more than 25 pages of script-format drama. • SASE for acknowledgment of receipt of the application (optional). send: see details |
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| Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Competition | Updated October 17th, 2008 |
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The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation awards yearly grants to writers in three rotating disciplines: Theatre, Full-length Fiction, and Short Stories. All works submitted must present the gay and lesbian lifestyle in a positive manner and be based on, or inspired by, a historic person, culture, event, or work of art. Writing contests close on November 30th of each year. Grants are $1000 and are not limited to a single winner. 2008 competition is in playwriting. The Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation registered in New York State, was formed by playwright/filmmaker Arch Brown in memory of his life-partner of 28 years, Bruce Allen Brown, a pharmaceutical chemist who died of a brain hemorrhage in 1993. The Foundation is pleased to announce a Playwriting Competition for the Foundation’s 2008 writing grants. One work per author. All works (Drama or Comedy or Musical) submitted must be unpublished, original, and in English. Adaptations or translations of other works of fiction are not acceptable. Plays may be full-length, a long one-act, or an evening-long collection of related one-acts. All works selected by the judges will be announced the following May and will receive a cash award of $1,000 (not limited to a single winner). All submissions must be postmarked by midnight November 30, 2008. All manuscripts should be neatly typed on one side of the sheet only. The first page of the manuscript should include the title, your name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address. Mail manuscript, along with a cover page stating the author's name, address, phone number, e-mail address and a note on the historical inspiration for the work, to our new address. send: see details |
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| Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Grants | Updated October 10th, 2008 |
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Grants of $5,000 are given annually to fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers who are at least 21 years of age and who reside in the central and western counties of New York State: Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orleans, Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates. Submit three copies of a prose manuscript of up to 30 pages with a $10 entry fee by January 15, 2009. Grant Recipients have used these grants in a variety of ways, including buying materials, preparing works for exhibit, and taking time to create new work. Grant categories change annually. Grants will be awarded based on artistic merit, as evaluated by our juries, comprised of distinguished professionals in each field. Those who are awarded Grants will be notified by telephone as early as possible. All applicants will be notified of final decisions by May 1, 2009. Grants are merit-based, not project-based. Please submit your BEST work as samples. Screen or Play Writers: Please send three (3) identical copies of a 30-page (no more than 250-300 words per page) segment of a screenplay or play, accompanied by a synopsis if necessary. Application Checklist: • THREE copies of the completed GRANT APPLICATION FORM • THREE copies of your one-page artistic resumé • THREE copies of your one-page artist's statement • THREE identical copies of appropriate work samples ~ read instructions below carefully!! • Optional: ONE self-addressed stamped postcard for receipt notification • Optional: ONE self-addressed stamped envelope for the return of visual work samples. Manuscripts will not be returned. • Check for $10 application fee. Work Sample Requirements: Examples of your creative work are the most important part of your application. Send only the required work samples and supporting materials requested without extra binders, folders, brochures, publications, or publicity materials. The latter will not be considered or returned. Manuscript material must be typescript, legible, properly collated, and stapled in the top left corner only. The applicant's name and the page number should appear in the upper right hand corner of each page. Do not submit manuscripts in folders or binders, nor published books or periodicals. Photocopied excerpts from books or periodicals, in published form, will not be accepted. send: see details |
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