New Literary Project is currently accepting applications for the 2025 Jack Hazard Fellowships.
Donor Name: New Literary Project
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 01/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Jack Hazard Fellows are fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir writers who teach full time in an accredited high school in the United States. They provide a $5,000 award that enables these creative writers who teach to focus on their writing for a summer.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, or memoir.
- Applicants commit to concentrating upon their creative writing during Summer 2025.
- Applicants have taught full-time (grades 9-12) for at least three years at an accredited high school.
- Applicants are full-time, current instructors (in any department or division, not just English) in an accredited high school (grades 9–12, teaching in the 2024–25 academic year).
- Applicants will expect to be contracted to return to full-time teaching in Fall 2025.
- Applicants submit a writing sample along with other related support material requested.
Expectations of Jack Hazard Fellows
If you are awarded a Jack Hazard Fellowship, New Literary Project will expect the following:
- In order to award a fellowship to you, you will be required to submit confirmation from your school of your employment for the 2025-26 academic year to New Literary Project. In addition, you will also be required to submit contact information for your principal or head of school as well as contact information for whoever leads communication efforts at your school (newsletters, social media, and other external communications).
- They are committed to supporting your writing and expect you to dedicate yourself to your writing project. Fellows should not have teaching or full-time professional responsibilities during the summer.
- If you are named a Jack Hazard Fellow, you agree to participate in any scheduled Zoom meeting(s) hosted by New Literary Project.
- If you are named a Jack Hazard Fellow, you agree to provide your written reflections on your writing experience during the summer and to share the work you produced with New Literary Project. You retain rights to your writing.
For more information, visit New Literary Project.
