Deadline: 11 October 2023
Submissions are now open for the One Story’s Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship to give a writer outside of the fold a significant boost in their career.
This educational fellowship offers a year-long mentorship on the craft of fiction writing with One Story magazine.
Benefits
- The fellow receives:
- Access to One Story online classes.
- Admission to One Story’s writing circle.
- Stipend ($2,000) and free admission to One Story’s week-long summer writers’ conference, which includes craft lectures, an intensive fiction workshop, and panels with literary agents and publishers.
- A full manuscript review and consultation with One Story Executive Editor Hannah Tinti (story collection or novel in progress up to 150 pages/35,000 words).
Eligibility Criteria
- This fellowship is open to applicants outside the United States.
- Textbooks will not disqualify you from applying for this fellowship. But any published book of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or memoir does. This includes books published by large and small presses, books published electronically, and self-published books.
- Only published books of your own writing will disqualify you from applying.
- This fellowship calls for an early-career writer of fiction who has not yet published a book and is not currently nor has ever been enrolled in an advanced degree program (such as an MA or MFA) in Creative Writing, English, or Literature, and has no plans to attend one in the 2024 calendar year.
- They are seeking writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. This means writing that centers, celebrates, or reclaims being marginalized through the lens of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion, illness, disability, trauma, migration, displacement, dispossession, or imprisonment.
- All applicants must be at least 21 years of age as of January 1st, 2024.
For more information, visit One Story.