George R. R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop 2025

Deadline: January 8, 2025

Applications are open for the George R. R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop 2025. The George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop is a seven-day writing boot camp for mid-career journalists who’ve a burning story to inform within the inventive realm and need to cross over into writing fiction.

Medill is dedicated to figuring out proficient, established journalists with an concept for a particular fictional challenge and immersing them in a nurturing and supportive setting. They will present writing time, reflection, dialogue and workshopping of works in progress and collegial interactions. They imagine this centered time, area, steering and mentorship will assist these journalists produce distinctive inventive works.

The workshop, which can happen in Evanston July 9 to 16, 2025, will give attention to writing fiction. The workshop is generously funded by George R.R. Martin. The academics of this workshop shall be award-winning novelists and writing instructors. The goal is to have fellows arrive with an concept for a novel that they are going to write and workshop and go away with the muse of stable pages or chapters.

Cost

• Participants will obtain funds for transportation from their home base to Chicago (roundtrip economic system airfare, or related), lodging in a single room at a bunch resort, and all meals throughout this system. Participants are answerable for their very own incidental bills – this consists of airline baggage charges and floor transportation from their home to the airport in addition to inside Chicago and Evanston.

Eligibility

• This program is designed particularly for mid-career journalists.
• Applicants ought to have not less than 5 years of expertise within the area, both full-time or freelance.
• This workshop is designed for journalists who haven’t revealed a novel or a book-length work of fiction but. If you might have revealed a novel, you aren’t eligible to apply. If you might have revealed a non-fiction guide or fictional brief tales, you’re eligible to apply.

Application

In this software kind, you’ll be requested to submit the next objects:

• a resume
• a canopy letter/mission assertion of as much as 400 phrases
• a listing of 5 latest skilled or inventive achievements
• an outline of the particular challenge you intend to work on whereas at Medill, noting why the George R.R. Martin workshop could be beneficial to you on this inventive course of
• a piece pattern of 20-30 pages of fictional prose. This pattern MUST come from the novel that you simply plan to workshop at Medill. It additionally should be the very starting of the novel
• the names and call data of two skilled references

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For extra data, go to George R. R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop.