Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship 2026-2027 (up to $46,500) – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship 2026-2027. This 9-month residency helps rising and established writers who’ve revealed at the least one guide with a commerce or literary press. Fellows obtain $46,500 in compensation, elective well being protection, workplace house, and housing in Las Vegas’s vibrant downtown arts district.

This working fellowship emphasizes each particular person writing and neighborhood engagement. Fellows preserve workplace hours, collaborate with BMI to design a neighborhood plan, and will host readings, workshops, or craft talks, curate occasions, or contribute to publications. The program fosters the development of every fellow’s literary work whereas additionally strengthening artistic change with readers and writers throughout Southern Nevada.

Benefits

For rising and distinguished writers who’ve revealed at the least one guide with a commerce or literary press, this fellowship contains: 

• compensation of $46,500 paid over a 9-month interval;
• a 9-month-lengthy letter of appointment;
• eligibility for elective well being protection;
• workplace house within the BMI places of work on the campus of UNLV;
• housing (fellows cowl some utilities) in a singular and vibrant arts complicated within the bustling district of downtown Las Vegas—home to The Writer’s Block, our metropolis’s beloved impartial bookstore; and
• recognition at BMI as a “Shearing Fellow.”

Eligibility

• Open to rising and distinguished writers;
• Applicant will need to have revealed at the least one guide with a commerce or literary press.

Application

You will want to submit:

• A one- to three-web page private assertion, which incorporates your curiosity in being part of the Las Vegas literary neighborhood, a sensible description of the way you envision fulfilling your service hours and fascinating the Las Vegas neighborhood, and the writing mission(s) you’ll work on whereas in residency.
• A writing pattern (10 pages most, double-spaced, 12 pt. font).
• A résumé or CV.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship.