Deadline: 3 January 2025
Applications are now open for the Jack Hazard Fellowship to support creative writers who teach to focus on their writing for a summer.
Jack Hazard Fellows are fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir writers who teach full time in an accredited high school in the United States.
Program Specifications
- If you are named a Jack Hazard Fellow, you agree to provide your written reflections on your writing experience during the summer and to share with the New Literary Project the work you produced. You retain rights to your writing.
- Additionally, in order to award a fellowship to you, you will be required to submit confirmation from your school of your employment for the 2025-26 academic year to New Literary Project. You will also be required to submit contact information for your principal or head of school as well as contact information for whomever leads communication efforts at your school (newsletters, social media, and other external communications).
- If you are named a Jack Hazard Fellow, you agree to participate in any scheduled Zoom meeting(s) hosted by New Literary Project.
Funding Information
- They provide a $5,000 award.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, or memoir.
- Applicants commit to concentrating upon their creative writing during Summer 2025.
- Applicants have taught full-time (grades 9-12) for at least three years at an accredited high school.
- Applicants are full-time, current instructors (in any department or division, not just English) in an accredited high school (grades 9–12, teaching in the 2024–25 academic year).
- Applicants will expect to be contracted to return to full-time teaching in Fall 2025.
- Applicants submit a writing sample along with other related support material requested.
Application Requirements
- Complete the form and send in one attachment (PDF) that includes the following four components:
- A brief biography of no more than 250 words. Include in your bio reflections on: your career as a writer and a teacher, your students, your school and how your writing relates to that or any other community of import to you.
- An attached c.v. with vitals (snail mail address, phone, etc.), along with relevant details about education, teaching experience including courses taught, and publications, if any.
- A description of your proposed writing project with title, no more than 250 words. In that proposal, please address how this fellowship will directly support and enhance your writing. If possible, your writing sample should be from the proposed summer project. If your writing sample is not part of your proposed project, please provide an additional brief sample (250 words) of the writing to be contained in your proposed project.
- Writing sample (with title) of fiction, creative nonfiction, or memoir, of no more than 5,000 words. Word doc, double-spaced, with standard formatting. (You may be asked for additional writing samples.)
For more information, visit New Literary Project.
