Deadline
Monday, May 22, 2023
Categories
Entry Fees
$35
Prizes
The fellowship winner will receive a two-week residency at WCDH to focus completely on their writing. 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 desired, and a community kitchen stocked with the basics for other meals.
Description
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) is pleased to offer the Moondancer fellowship for authors who express their passion for the natural world and concern for the environment through their writing. This fellowship is open to poets, fiction writers, playwrights, essayists, columnists, memoirists, and screenwriters. Prior publication is not a requirement. The successful applicant will demonstrate insight, honesty, literary merit, and the likelihood of publication or production.
The fellowship winner will receive a two-week residency at WCDH to focus completely on their writing. 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 desired, and a community kitchen stocked with the basics for other meals.
Fellowship applications must be accompanied by a writing sample and a non-refundable $35 application fee. Only one writing project may be proposed per application. Writers proposing more than one project must submit a separate application and fee for each one. The submission period opens on Monday, March 20, 2023. The deadline is midnight, CST, on Monday, May 22, 2023. The winner will be announced no later than June 26, 2023. Residency must be completed by December 31, 2023. Exceptions will be made for COVID-19 concerns. For an application form, visit https://www.writerscolony.org/fellowships.
Contact Information
THE WRITERS' COLONY AT DAIRY HOLLOW 515 Spring Street Eureka Springs, AR 72632 (479)253-7444 [email protected]