The Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature, $1,000, is given annually for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script informed by a relationship with the natural world.
Donor Name: Wyoming Arts Council
State: Wyoming
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 11/14/2024
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This award is designed to bring attention to writers in Wyoming who have not yet received wide recognition for their work, and to support emerging writers at crucial times in their careers. Poets, fiction writers, essayists, and script writers who have published no more than one book in each genre and who are not students or faculty members are invited to apply by submitting manuscripts and an entry form by the deadline.
Eligibility Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years of age at time of application.
- Must not be a full-time student pursuing high school, college, or university art-related degrees.
- Must not be full-time college faculty.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or have legal resident status (evidence of U.S. citizenship, resident status and state residency may be required).
- May not be affiliated with the Wyoming Arts Council either as a board member or staff member, including their families, whether full-time, part-time or contractual.
- May not be an employee of the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.
- Must have been domiciled within the state borders for a total of 20 months in the previous two years.
- Must remain a Wyoming resident for at least one year after award, living in the state for at least 10 months of the year.
- Must not have received a Blanchan or Doubleday award in the last four years. You may apply for these awards if you received a 2023-2024 (or previous year) creative writing fellowship.
- You may not have received a 2024-2025 (or current year) Arts Council creative writing fellowship.
- You may enter if you have never published a book, if you’ve published only one full-length book of fiction, poetry or nonfiction, or if you have published no more than one book of poetry, one of fiction, and one of nonfiction (self-publication excluded).
Manuscript Guidelines
- Submit work in one genre only.
- Writing may have been previously published.
- Manuscript must be consecutively page-numbered. Include title of work and page numbers on each page.
- Your name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript.
- If you submit more than the allowed page limits (see below), extra pages will be removed; you will not be notified.
- If novel or play/film synopses are part of the manuscript (this is often helpful to the juror), include them in the total page number count.
Length Requirements
- Poetry, maximum length: 10 pages. Type single-spaced using a 12-point standard font, with no more than one poem per page.
- Fiction and creative nonfiction, maximum length: 25 pages. Type double-spaced using a 12-point standard font.
- Drama and screenplays, maximum length: 25 pages. Must be typed and presented in the standard, industry-accepted format for the type of script submitted.
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