Lake Forest CollegeMadeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize (Prose)
Lake Forest College, in conjunction with the &NOW organization, invites applications for an emerging prose writer under forty years old, with no major book publication*, to spend two months (February-March or March-April 2010) in residence at our campus in Chicago’s northern suburbs on the shore of Lake Michigan. There are no formal teaching duties attached to the residency. Time is to be spent completing a manuscript, participating in the Lake Forest Literary Festival, and offering two public presentations. The completed manuscript will be published (upon approval) by the Lake Forest College Press &NOW Books imprint.
The stipend is $10,000, with a housing suite and campus meals.
Send curriculum vita, no more than 30 pages of manuscript in progress, and a one-page statement of plans for completion to: Plonsker Residency, Department of English, Lake Forest College, Box A16, 555 N. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045. Submissions must be postmarked by April 1, 2009 for consideration by judges Robert Archambeau, Davis Schneiderman, and Joshua Corey.
http://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/programs/engl/plonsker.asp
*No major book publication. What does this mean?: a chapbook is ok, as are works where the candidate is translator or editor. Yet, most other small press book publications will disqualify. Query andnow@lakeforest.edu with questions.
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