Real People, Real Struggles, Real Stories: Writing About Mental Illness
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is offering a fellowship to a writer working on a short or long work of non-fiction focusing on how they (the writer or another) have managed, and continue to manage, their mental illness. This personal story should offer not just insight and awareness, but most importantly, hope. The writer should share their dreams, and how they adjust and fine-tune them. Stories focused on relationships, family life, travel, employment, civic contributions, passions, along with the barriers, fears, and stigmas faced, are encouraged. For the purposes of this fellowship, the writing should be non-fiction, and can take the form of memoir, essay, profile, or biography. The successful application will demonstrate insight, honesty, literary merit, and the likelihood of publication.
The fellowship winner will receive a two-week residency to allow the recipient to focus completely on their work. Each writer’s suite has a bedroom, private bathroom, separate writing space, and wireless internet. We provide uninterrupted writing time, a European-style gourmet dinner prepared five nights a week and served in our community dining room, the camaraderie of other professional writers when you want it, and a community kitchen stocked with the basics for other meals. We work with fellows on their community outreach project to make sure it matches their unique strengths and skillsets.
Fellowship applications must be accompanied by a writing sample and a non-refundable $35 application fee. Writers proposing more than one project must submit a separate application and fee for each one. The submission period opens on Monday, Febuary 3, 2025. Deadline is midnight CST on Monday,April 21, 2025. The winner will be announced no later than June 1,2025. Residency must be completed by December 31, 2026.
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow would like to thank long-time supporter and former board member Sharon Spurlin for generously funding this fellowship. To learn about funding a fellowship supporting the genre and/or area of interest you are passionate about, visit www.writerscolony.org/sponsor-a-fellowship
---NOTE:Please remember to save your changes as you complete your application, or complete the information offline and then copy and paste into this application. Any application received that does not follow the instructions will immediately be disqualified. Each application requires an application fee of $35.00. Submit your application BEFORE making a payment. Payment can be submitted here: Application Fee- Residency | writers-colony (writerscolony.org). If you have questions about the application or application process, please contact us at 479-253-7444 or wcdhfellowships@gmail.com ---Thank you and best wishes!
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