Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing
Deadline: arrive by January 1, 2010,
Writers of poetry, fiction or nonfiction who have recently completed an MFA, MA, or PhD in creative writing, and who need a year to complete their first book, are encouraged to apply. The selected writer will spend the academic year (late August 2010 to early May 2011) at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
The fellow will teach one creative writing course each semester and will give a public reading from the work in progress.
The fellowship carries a stipend of $34,750 plus travel expenses; health and life insurance are provided.
Complete applications, should consist of a resume; three letters of recommendation, at least one of which should address the candidate’s abilities as a teacher; and either a maximum of 30 double-spaced manuscript pages of prose or 20 single-spaced pages of poetry. Writing sample may be a completed work or an excerpt from something larger.
Send complete applications to Creative Writing Fellowship c/o Department of English, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346-1398.
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
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Merry Christmas you sweet faced boy.
Rebecca
thank you, rebecca!
happy new year to you and your lemon-scented muses!
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