Artist Residency Application & Guidelines
DEADLINE: Applications must be postmarked or delivered by
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WRITERS PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
Established and emerging artists working in any discipline or genre may apply to any one of the residency programs offered.
Current Jack Straw staff, interns, board members, panelists, or their immediate family members may not apply.
You may apply to more than one artist program, but must submit a complete and separate set of applications for each program. Note: The Writers Program has a separate form and set of guidelines from the Artist Support and New Media Gallery Programs.
WRITERS PROGRAM SELECTION PROCESS
Applications are evaluated and awarded by an invited curator. The curator changes each year. The Writers Program curator is Donna Miscolta, a Jack Straw Writer from the inaugural year of the program. All applicants will be notified of the results in writing. Please allow at least twelve weeks after deadline dates for the review and notification process to be completed.
| 2009 Writers Program curator Donna Miscolta has received writing awards from 4Culture Artist Trust, Seattle City Artists and others. She recently won the Bread Loaf/Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Fiction. She’s been a Hedgebrook resident and was selected for the Jack Straw Writers Program in its inaugural year. Her poems have appeared on the King County Poetry Bus Project, and the Poetry on Wheels anthology (Floating Bridge Press). Her short fiction has been published in Raven Chronicles, The Americas Review, |
 2009 Writers Program Curator Donna Miscolta |
WRITERS PROGRAM SELECTION CRITERIA
The Writers Program receives more than a hundred applicants, from which 12 writers are selected. The curator will base her selections upon the excellence of the work represented in the support materials provided by the applicant, and his or her subjective response to the applicant’s work sample in comparison to the other submissions received.2009 WRITERS PROGRAM APPLICATION MATERIALS CHECKLIST
- COMPLETED APPLICATION FORM (2 copies)
- APPLICATION MATERIALS CHECKLIST – This page, with all items checked off. (2 copies)
- PROJECT DESCRIPTION (1 page) – In one or two sentences describe the literary work that you would complete during the Writers Program. (2 copies)
- ARTIST STATEMENT (250 words max) – Describe the nature of your literary work and/or your art-making philosophy. (2 copies)
- ARTIST RESUME/CV (2 pages max per person) – For collaborative projects, include separate resumes for each major collaborator. Established groups can use one resume as a single entity. If you have little professional experience, a brief bio will suffice. Literary groups applying to the Writers Program are limited to three persons. (2 copies)
- WORK SAMPLE DESCRIPTION (1 page) – Describe the work or works in your submission. If the submission was previously published, please give the name of the publication, date published, and name of the publisher. (2 copies)
- WORK SAMPLES – Samples submitted in formats other than those listed below will not be reviewed. Note: Books, magazines, and journals (or photocopies made from them) will NOT be accepted.
WORK SAMPLE GUIDELINES
MANUSCRIPT FORMAT REQUIREMENTS: You may submit work samples in one or several genres totaling 10 pages maximum. Submissions must be printed on 8.5 X 11 white paper, 3-hole punched in left margin (no staples or folders). Manuscripts must be double-spaced (except for poetry), single-sided, and typed in 10-point or larger font size, with the applicant’s name and page number on each page.
Note: Books, magazines, and journals (or photocopies made from them) will NOT be accepted.
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