Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting 2025 ($10,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: January 10, 2025

Applications are open for the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting 2025. The Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting is a one-12 months fellowship that’s awarded to an impressive rising screenwriter. This program, now in its seventeenth 12 months, is a partnership between the Writers Guild Initiative and the King Family Foundation, and that is its ninth 12 months being hosted on blcklst.com.

The goal of the fellowship is to offer an OPPORTUNITY for an rising screenwriter to develop an unique screenplay and to offer them with coaching and academic assets about screenwriting. The Writers Guild Initiative (WGI) is searching for numerous and distinctive voices, and for tasks which might be character-pushed and private in nature. They are solely in search of function movies: no shorts, performs, fiction manuscripts, or TV pilots can be accepted at the moment. For the avoidance of doubt, the screenwriter will retain all rights in their unique screenplay.

This 12 months, the Black List will select ten screenplays to ship to the Writers Guild Initiative choice committee for consideration. The shortlist can be decided in late January, and the Fellowship recipient can be chosen by WGI no later than March 2025. The winner of this 12 months’s Fellowship can be introduced in Spring 2025 and can be invited to attend the 2025 WGI Gala.

Benefits

• The fellowship recipient will obtain a $10,000 stipend to assist their growth of an unique screenplay (not the script used to choose in to the fellowship) and they are going to be mentored through the course of the fellowship 12 months by a outstanding screenwriter. 

Eligibility

• Entrant should host a full-size function screenplay on blcklst.com for at the least one week through the submission interval – September 30, 2024 by means of January 10, 2025.
• Entrant have to be the only real and unique writer of the screenplay submitted for consideration.
• Entrant have to be over the age of 18 and no older than the age of 25 by 12/31/24 and competent to contract.
• Entrant should not be represented by an agent or supervisor in the movie or tv trade on the time Entrant opts into this program.
• Entrant have to be a US citizen or a authorized everlasting resident.

Application

If requested, the entrant should submit the next, that are additionally ruled by the submission necessities and settlement:

• A private assertion 
• An expert resume
• Contact and different private data
• A logline and 250 phrase synopsis of the submitted screenplay
• Two web page pitch of movie you’d like to write down through the fellowship 12 months
• Signed originals of the Submission Agreement
• Note that if you have already got a script hosted on the Black List web site, the deadline to choose into consideration for this fellowship is January 10, 2025. All scores related to the script, together with those who predate the submissions interval, can be thought-about in the ultimate choice.

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For extra data, go to Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship.