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The Woodhull Institute's Writers' Retreat - Raise your Voices Call for Applications
| Purpose: | The Woodhull Institute convenes small group writing retreats for women who are collectively underrepresented as non-fiction authors and opinion writers. At the retreat, professional authors, journalists, and freelancers provide writing instruction and one-on-one critique to participants to gain fundamental knowledge of Op-ed pieces, features, book proposals and pitching ideas. By the conclusion of this retreat, participants will have the skills and savvy necessary to successfully pitch and place pieces in all of these non-fiction genres in both alternative and mainstream publication venues. |
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| Eligibility: | Women who are Members of the Academic Council and Members of the Medical Center Line in the Stanford faculty, who are also Faculty Affiliates of the Clayman Institute, may apply. All disciplines and fields of research are eligible. Not eligible if won a fellowship or other Clayman Institute award within the last 3 years. |
| Award: | Scholarship includes food, accommodations and materials. Participants will be responsible for their own transportation to the conference site. One scholarship is available for the February retreat. |
| Applications: | Applicants are required to submit the following materials for review:
Only complete applications will be considered; other supporting papers will not be reviewed. Applications are accepted by email only at the following address ann.enthoven AT stanford.edu
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| Deadline: | February 6, 2009
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| Notification: | February 11, 2009
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| Additional Information: | Faculty members for the retreat include: Deborah Siegel, PhD author of Sisterhood, Interrupted:From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, co-editor of the literary anthology Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo, and co-founder of the webjournal The Scholar & Feminist Online; Kristen Kemp, magazine freelancer, author of seven teen novels for Scholastic including Breakfast at Bloomingdale's, and founder and editor-in-chief of Montclairkids.com; and Catherine Orenstein, journalist, founder of the Op-ed Project, and author of Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale. |
| Questions: | For additional information, please contact Ann Enthoven at ann.enthoven AT stanford.edu |