CRWROPPS POST: Apply for a WICW Creative Writing Fellowship! Deadline March 1, 2020.

WICW POETRY & FICTION FELLOWSHIPS ($39K EACH), DEADLINE 3/1/20 The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing is now accepting applications for its 2020-2021 Poetry & Fiction Fellowships. Successful applicants will receive a minimum $39,000 stipend and will teach two creative writing courses (one each semester) at UW-Madison, beginning late August 2020. Prospective fellows may apply through Submittable at wicw.submittable.com/submit. Please read the eligibility details, below. We look forward to reading your work! ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIPS Since 1986, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW-Madison has provided time, space, and an intellectual community for writers working on a first or second book of poetry or fiction. Altogether, our poetry and fiction fellows have published more than a hundred and forty full-length collections and novels, many of them winning major national honors. This year, the Institute will offer five year-long fellowships: two in fiction (the James C. McCreight Fellowship and the Carol Houck Smith Fellowship), and three in poetry (the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellowship, the Ronald Wallace Fellowship, and the First Wave Fellowship). Each of these fellowships carries with it a minimum $39,000 stipend (paid in equal installments from October 1 through June 1), generous health benefits, and a one-course-per-semester teaching assignment in introductory, intermediate, or advanced undergraduate creative writing. Fiction and poetry fellows are asked to give one public reading during the fellowship year. Additionally, fellows may be asked to mentor one to three undergraduate thesis students, and all fellows participate in determining the recipients of the annual Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, as well as the Program in Creative Writing's undergraduate writing contests. Along with faculty and an external committee including former fellows and writers of note, fellows also serve on the committees selecting the following year's WICW poetry and fiction fellows. ELIGIBILITY DETAILS To be eligible, applicants must have completed or be scheduled to complete an MFA or Ph.D. in Creative Writing by August 15, 2020, cannot be enrolled in any degree-granting program of study during the fellowship year itself, and must maintain residence in Madison for the fellowship year. Eligible applicants may have published no more than one full-length book of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction as of the March 1 deadline. Individuals who have never published a full-length collection or book remain, of course, completely eligible. (So far, in the seven years since we opened the fellowship to candidates with a book, only seven have gone to writers with books at the time of acceptance—the other thirty-four have gone to unpublished writers, some of whom finished an MFA very recently and some of whom finished an MFA many years ago). For eligibility questions not addressed in this e-mail, applicants may consult our FAQ page. Applicants should prepare the following materials before applying:   (1) A writing sample consisting of either 10 pages of poetry (single-spaced and uploaded as a pdf) or up to 30 pages of fiction (double-spaced and uploaded as a pdf). Fiction applications must consist of either one short story or a novel excerpt. Your name must not appear anywhere on your manuscript, and while previously published work may be submitted, your manuscript must in no way indicate that your work has been published.   (2) A resume or curriculum vitae in pdf format, concluding with the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of two professional references for us to contact in the event that you are designated a winner or an alternate.   (3) A $50.00 reading fee, paid online by credit card. One of our three poetry fellowships, the First Wave Poetry Fellowship, is reserved for writers with a background teaching social justice and/or performance poetry (e.g. slam or spoken word), or writers with a strong personal background in slam poetry, spoken word poetry, or arts-based social justice activism. As part of the online application, all poetry candidates will be asked if they meet these supplemental qualifications. However, applicants who do not meet them shouldn't worry: you are still very much eligible for the Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellowship, and the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship. Submit today! The deadline is March 1. ANTHONY DOERR, 1999-2000 Fiction Fellow and author of five novels, memoirs, and collections including Pulitzer Prizewinner and New York Times #1 bestseller All the Light We Cannot See. DANIELLE EVANS, 2006-2007 Fiction Fellow and author of the story collectionBefore You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self,winner of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Award and many other honors. JAMEL BRINKLEY, 2016-2017 Fiction Fellow and author of the short story collection A Lucky Man, which was a 2018 National Book Award finalist. SRIKANTH REDDY, 2002-2003 Poetry Fellow and author of the poetry collections Voyager and Facts for Visitors. REBECCA HAZELTON, 2010-2011 Poetry Fellow and author of the poetry collections Fair Copy (2012), Vow (2013), and Gloss (2019). TIANA CLARK, 2017-2018 Poetry Fellow and author of I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood. EMMA STRAUB, 2008-2009 Fiction Fellow and author of the novels The Vacationers and Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, as well as the story collection Other People We Married. KARYNA MCGLYNN, 2015-2016 Poetry Fellow and author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl and Hothouse. ERIKA MEITNER, 2001-2002 Poetry Fellow and author of the poetry collections Copia, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Ideal Cities, and Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore.