Provincetown Writing Fellowship
The Fine Arts Work Center offers a unique residency for writers and visual artists in the crucial early stages of their careers. Located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, an area with a long history as an arts colony, the Work Center provides seven-month Fellowships to twenty Fellows each year in the form of living/work space and a modest monthly stipend. Residencies run from October 1 through April 30. Fellows have the opportunity to pursue their work independently in a diverse and supportive community of peers. A historic fishing port, Provincetown is situated at the tip of Cape Cod in an area of spectacular natural beauty, surrounded by miles of dunes and National Seashore beaches.
Fellows are expected to live and work in Provincetown during the fellowship year. Optional group activities provide Fellows with the opportunity to meet program committee members as well as visiting artists and writers. The Stanley Kunitz Common Room is the site of frequent presentations by distinguished guests as well as readings by writing Fellows. Visual arts Fellows present shows in the Work Center’s Hudson D. Walker Gallery. Visiting artists and writers engage in dialogue with the Fellows throughout the year. The Fine Arts Work Center also seeks to identify local and national venues for Fellows and former Fellows to share their work.
October 1, 2019-April 30, 2020
Fellows are provided with an apartment and a monthly stipend of $750.
Applicants must be an emerging fiction writer or poet. Writers whose work falls between those two categories or who employ both may also apply. However, all applicants must either choose “Fiction” or “Poetry” on the application form. FAWC actively seeks applicants from all backgrounds and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, disability, HIV status, or veteran status.
Writers who have published a full-length book of creative work* (or have a contract to publish a full-length creative work) in any genre are not eligible. If an applicant receives a contract during the application period, she must notify Sophia Starmack at [email protected].
*Note: FAWC has a policy of considering most poetry chapbooks not to be “full length” works; poets who have only published chapbooks in small-circulation runs on small presses are eligible to apply for the Fellowship. However, if you have published a chapbook and plan to apply, please send an email to [email protected] so that our Writing Committee can verify that your publication is not a “full length” work. Please include title, author’s name, date of publication, page length, name of the press, and number of copies that were printed.
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24 Pearl Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
(508) 487-9960