APPLICATION OPENS FEBRUARY 7!
Yellow Arrow Publishing is pleased to reintroduce our Writers-in-Residence program for 2022! Our writing residency program was developed as a way to support and connect emerging writers who identify as women in the Baltimore area, and while we had to put the program on hold last year, we are thrilled to share that we have reimagined the program and will be hosting four [virtual] writers-in-residence for 2022 in April and May. The application opens February 7, so if you are an emerging writer in the Baltimore area, read on for more details and start preparing your application packet!
Read about the 2020 Writers-in-Residence here and the 2019 Writers-in-Residence here. Get your PDF copy of both residency publications from the Yellow Arrow bookstore. From NOW until February 25, you can purchase PDFs of the 2019 and 2020 residency publications (zipped together) for the low price of $5.00. See what past writers-in-residence created!
Requirements:
Applicants must identify as women and reside in Baltimore City or County. Application packets, including a Google Doc form, resume or CV, and a writing sample, must be completed. The Google Doc will be available at yellowarrowpublishing.com/writerinresidence-program February 7–25.
Who Should Apply:
Emerging to mid career writers are encouraged to apply. You should be able to commit 5–10 hours per week on your writing during this time, but when and where you do your writing is entirely up to you! We specifically designed this residency for writers with many competing demands on their time, so that you can fit the program into your life—whether that means working around a full-time job, part-time gigs, motherhood, quality time with your pet, or other personal responsibilities! We are looking for a diverse range of applicants from a broad scope of neighborhoods in both Baltimore City and County.
Where will you write?
We encourage our Writers-in-Residence to take inspiration from the Baltimore community by writing in spaces representative of your neighborhood, and we hope that Charm City’s influence is present in your writing. We hope that by April/May it will be safer to engage in-person but if it’s not, the weather should be nice enough that you can take advantage of outdoor spaces. The entire program has been designed to be feasible virtually, but when and if we can meet safely in-person, we will certainly try to do so (with your safety as our top priority).
What we hope you will gain:
Writers-in-residence will connect and share within a cohort of local writers during the two-month residency program. Yellow Arrow commits to motivating, supporting, and amplifying the voices of our selected writers-in-residence. You will be provided feedback on your work by your peers in the program, and your blog posts will be featured on Yellow Arrow’s website and social media accounts.
What we hope you will give:
Writers-in-residence will write at least one blog post for Yellow Arrow and teach at least one virtual workshop offered to the Yellow Arrow community during their residency. In addition, they will participate in required events, including orientation, up to four virtual sessions with their cohort of writers, and a virtual reading of their work at the completion of the residency.
Questions? Email anniemarhefka@gmail.com with “YAP Residency” and your name in the subject line.