Writing Fellowship: Jack Hazard Fellowship

Jack Hazard Fellowship

 

Jack Hazard Fellows are fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir writers who teach full-time in an accredited high school in the United States. We provide a $5,000 award that enables these creative writers who teach to focus on their writing for a summer. 

 

A year ago, New Literary Project launched an innovative program to inspire and equip a certain underserved and deserving community of creative writers. These are writers with a life-changing vocation and day job, teaching high school students. Invaluable and fulfilling and demanding as their teaching is, what’s also crucially important for some teachers is their own life-changing writing vocation. As anyone who remembers being a teenager can attest, it is hard if not impossible for a dedicated educator to find the time during the hectic school year for writers who teach.

 

Well, that may be what summer is for. And that’s where New Literary Project comes in.

 

Last spring, NewLit awarded eight Jack Hazard Summer 2022 Fellowships of $5,000 apiece to an inaugural cohort of promising writers who taught high school in California. The results were gratifying–you can read below their testimonials. The Fellows were invigorated and liberated by their Jack Hazard, and by the time August rolled around all had made something new and consequential they were proud of. And so were we.

So this year, we are going national, eagerly opening up applications for ten to twelve $5,000 Jack Hazard Summer 2023 Fellowships for writers teaching high school in the United States.

If you have been teaching and waking up early or staying up late to write, and savoring the prospect of weekends and breaks for your own work, perhaps this Jack Hazard Fellowship was created just for you. 

 

More information and application link here.