The Writers Guild Foundation is pleased to announce its Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program to provide writers who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled writers, and writers over the age of 50, with tools and education to become a writers’ assistant and script coordinator, ultimately resulting in meaningful employment opportunities.
Donor Name: The Writers Guild Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Training
Deadline: 05/18/2023
Details:
The program’s mission is to provide writers who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled writers, and writers over the age of 50, with tools and education to become a writers’ assistant and script coordinator, ultimately resulting in meaningful employment opportunities. These positions have historically been an invaluable way to learn the writing process first-hand, with the ultimate goal of getting a writing job.
This program is not a writing fellowship. The purpose is to provide support staff training for emerging writers who are typically excluded from writers’ rooms. You must be interested in pursuing employment as a Writers’ Assistant or Script Coordinator to be considered.
Graduates of the program will be included in an ongoing list of trained writers’ assistants and script coordinators (WA/SCs) primarily from underrepresented groups, which will be made available to studios, networks and showrunners, in order to increase the pool of eligible hires. By offering this opportunity to writers who are typically excluded from the writers’ room, they hope to increase representation among television writers, and capture stories from all corners of the human experience.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be:
- At least 18 years of age.
- Able to demonstrate their ability and interest in writing for TV.
- Interested in pursuing employment in a support staff role.
- Able to participate in all program meetings and fulfill all program requirements.
- Open to constructive criticism and respectful to all other participants and mentors.
- Eligible to work in the U.S.
For more information, visit WGF.
