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Now Accepting Applications: 2017 Creative Writing Fellowships

Featured News, Grant News | July 18, 2016

The annual Creative Writing fellowships are awards of merit, based on a writer’s body of work, and honoring Wyoming’s literary artists whose work reflects serious and exceptional writing. The Wyoming Arts Council is now accepting applications for the 2017 Creative Writing fellowships. The deadline for applications is midnight, August 22.

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2017 Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship winner for poetry Connie Wieneke reads at the Casper College and ARTCORE Literary Conference

The format of the 2017 fellowships is new: one fellowship will be awarded in each category of Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Fiction, for a total of three fellowships. Applications are accepted online via Submittable.

Recipients will receive a $3,000 fellowship. Also new this year: winners will receive a travel stipend to read their work at one of the statewide literary conferences.

Applicants must be at least 18 years old and Wyoming residents, living within the state’s borders for at least ten months of the year since July 1, 2014. Applicants must not be a full-time student pursuing high school, college, or university art-related degrees.

A complete list of eligibility requirements and additional information can be found on the Arts Council website.

For more information, contact Rachel Clifton, 307-777-5305 or rachel.clifton@wyo.gov.

 

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