We write with a message for your graduating MA, MFA, and PhD students in creative writing. We¹d like to let them know about the approaching deadline for the writing Fellowships here at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and hope that you will forward this email to those students and to others you think may be interested in applying.
For the last forty years, the Fine Arts Work Center has run the largest and longest residency Fellowship in the United States for emerging writers. Writers from any country who have not yet published a book with significant distribution are welcome to apply. Fellows receive a 7-month stay at the Work Center and a monthly stipend of $650. Fellows do not pay or work in exchange for their fellowships in any way. Fellows are chosen based on the strength and promise of their application manuscripts. Former Fellows have won every major national award in writing and include Denis Johnson, Louise Glück, Jhumpa Lahiri, Yusef Komunyakaa, and 800 others.
No degree is required for a Fellowship, but we have found that students who are about to finish or have recently finished graduate writing programs are often in search of opportunities like the Work Center Fellowship.
The application is straightforward. For details, please visit http://www.fawc.org/winter/index.shtml
The postmark deadline for next year¹s Fellowships is Monday, December 1, 2008.
We¹d be grateful for your help in passing on word of this unique opportunity to your students.
Yours,
Salvatore Scibona
Writing Coordinator
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
24 Pearl Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
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