Emerging Voices Fellowship: Transform Your Writing Career with Mentorship, Honorarium, and More

Do I must reside within the United States space to apply to the Emerging Voices Fellowship?
Yes. Although candidates don’t should be a U.S. everlasting resident and/or citizen, you have to be residing within the United States throughout the period of the Fellowship.

Are there any age restrictions?
The Emerging Voices Fellowship is open to all writers 21 years of age or older.

Can I submit work that has been beforehand revealed?
Yes, should you really feel it’s the work that greatest represents you as a author.

Can you assist me determine what work to submit as my writing pattern?
No, though we do strongly encourage you to submit writing that corresponds to your style and your mission proposal. This permits the choice committee to achieve a greater understanding of your mission and the way you and your work may gain advantage from the fellowship.

How ought to the manuscript be formatted?
Fiction and nonfiction manuscripts must be 15 pages of double-spaced, 12-point font, one-inch margins throughout. You might format poetry manuscripts nevertheless you’re feeling greatest represents the poetry you might be submitting, so long as you don’t exceed the 10-page restrict and the typed font is legible. All pages have to be numbered. Your identify should not seem wherever on the manuscript.  The doc have to be in PDF format.

What does the choice committee search for in a manuscript?
A robust writing pattern. The greatest recommendation we may give is to hunt the recommendation of different writers and instructors when getting ready your manuscript.

When are candidates notified of the committee’s determination?
All candidates shall be notified in May.

Can you give me suggestions on my manuscript or inform me why I wasn’t chosen for the fellowship?
We can not present any feedback on manuscripts or on purposes submitted.

I write screenplays/graphic novels/kids’s books. Am I eligible?
No. The accepted genres for the Emerging Voices Fellowship are fiction, artistic nonfiction, and poetry. All courses, mentors, and programming for the fellowship are primarily based on considered one of these three genres. Many alumni have gone on to pursue careers in graphic novels, efficiency artwork, and screenwriting, however targeting both prose or poetry at some point of the fellowship.

Do I would like to supply references?
Applicants should present the identify and contact info (e mail tackle and telephone quantity) for at the least one reference. Your reference must be acquainted with you and can attest to your character, means to work inside a group, and is acquainted with your work.  During the choice interval, we might contact your references for added info. Your reference must be conscious that we might keep up a correspondence with them throughout that point.

Is there an application payment?
Yes, there’s a $25 payment to submit the application. The application payment have to be paid on Submittable.

Are there application waivers for monetary difficulties?
Yes, application waivers can be found to these dealing with monetary difficulties. Please e mail ev@pen.org to request an application waiver.

If supplied a spot within the fellowship, might I defer acceptance for an additional 12 months?
You might not defer acceptance.

If not awarded the fellowship, might I reapply?
If you aren’t awarded a fellowship, we encourage you to reapply if .

Am I allowed to apply to each the Emerging Voices Fellowship and the Emerging Voices Workshop in Los Angeles?

Applicants to the Emerging Voices Fellowship are additionally welcome to apply to the Emerging Voices Workshop an intensive in individual week-long workshop, supplied twice yearly, in Los Angeles, California. Applications will submit separate purposes for every program. The committee for every program will evaluate respective purposes people and choices by one program might not mirror choices by the opposite.

Are present PEN America employees, interns, donors, and Board members eligible for the Emerging Voices Fellowship? What about previous employees, hole 12 months fellows, interns, donors, and Board members?
Writers who are also present PEN America employees, hole 12 months fellows, or interns, trustees, or chairs of member committees usually are not eligible for the fellowship. We perceive the literary group to be shut and interconnected, and being concerned with PEN America in these methods up to now doesn’t lead to disqualification. We ask that the author haven’t been related with PEN America in these methods throughout the calendar 12 months of the relevant fellowship cycle. For instance, an individual concerned with PEN America in one of many classes described in 2025 won’t be eligible for the fellowship in 2025.

If somebody is a member and energetic in, say, a committee, they’re eligible, as long as they aren’t chair or co-chair.