2013 - 2014 Charles Pick Creative Writing Fellowship | Call for applications | South Asia

18 August 2013
2013 - 2014 Charles Pick Creative Writing Fellowship | Call for applications | South Asia
Deadline: 31 January 2014

The Charles Pick South Asian Fellowship is a six-month residential creative writing fellowship with an award of £10,000. The fellowship began in October 2002.

The Charles Pick South Asian Fellowship seeks to encourage the spirit of writing by giving support to the work of a new and, as yet, unpublished writer of fictional or non-fictional prose based in South Asia. The writer should be from South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Burma/Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan), but does not need to be domiciled there.

Application forms must be submitted with an original typescript of 2,500 words. All applicants must provide a reference from an editor, agent or accredited teacher of creative writing.

All application forms and full details are available here.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Questions: charlespickfellowship@uea.ac.uk

Applications: Fellowship Administrator, The Charles Pick Fellowship, South Asia School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/literature/fellowships/
  • Female Cambodian Reporters Wanted at Camb(l)o(g)dia
    Guest posts are being accepted from around the world, directly related, or not, to the issues we cover here on Camb(l)o(g)dia: Cambodian-related matters, women's…
  • Call for Submissions:
    Deadline: 28 February 2011Asian Canadians are by no means a homogenous group. In addition to differences in taste, style, education, look, and social status, the…
  • Deadline June 30 | Get Your Script Produced: The London Screenwriters' Festival Competition (open to writers from overseas)
    Deadline: 30 June 2012What is love to you? Write Film / Make Film / Distribute Film: a unique competition from The London Screenwriters’ Festival!Get your script…
Related Opportunities:
Ranked: 500 highest-paying publications for freelance writers
The Freelance 500 Report (2015 Edition, 138 pages) profiles the highest-paying markets, ranked to help you decide which publication to query first. The info and links in this report are current. Details here.