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PEN USA Announces 2006 Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellowships
June 09, 2005
PEN Center USA announces six to ten Rosenthal Fellowships will be available to emerging writers from minority, immigrant and underserved communities for the 2006 cycle of Emerging Voices, a program of literary mentorship.
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Participating writers will receive a one-time stipend of $1,000. The stipends are made possible by the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation, which supports outstanding work from not-yet-established writers and artists.
Designed to serve writers working on a specific project who are ready to be published, Emerging Voices is an intensive, eight-month program based in Los Angeles that includes a one-on-one mentoring relationship with an established writer, master classes and private workshops with a prominent author and poet, classes in the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension, informal visits with writers and literary professionals and attending literary readings.
The current Emerging Voices brochure and application are available online below or by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
PEN USA Emerging Voices
c/o Antioch University Los Angeles
400 Corporate Pointe
Culver City, CA 90230
Or by querying: ev@penusa.org or (310) 862-1555 ext. 360
The deadline for applications is September 23, 2005, and the program will begin in January.
There is no better measure of the program’s quality and effectiveness than the remarkable success of many of its past participants. Former Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellows have written books for Holt, MacAdam/Cage and Simon & Schuster, one of which was a Los Angeles Times and national bestseller; received fellowships from the Sundance Institute and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; received grants and awards, such as the Durfee Artist Award, a Brody Arts grant and the Nimrod/Katherine Anne Porter Prize for fiction; and have had works published in numerous publications. Mentors and instructors have included Sherman Alexie, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mona Simpson, Carolyn See, Bernard Cooper, Susan Taylor Chehak, Greg Sarris, Harryette Mullen, Karen Yamashita, Maria Amparo Escandon, Janet Fitch, Jervey Tervalon and Judith Freeman.
CLICK TO GO TO APPLICATION DOWNLOAD PAGE:
http://penusa.org/go/voices/section/emerging-voices-application-download/