Writing Away Retreats
Scholarship Contests
Free Tuition for One or Both Oct. '09 sessions
Theme: Burning Down the House
Deadline for Entries: July 1, 2009
Details: Up to 5K word short story, 3 poems or 5K word essay may be submitted for contest. You may only submit once and submissions must be based upon the theme.
Entry Fee: $20.00 and includes a 10% discount off cost of the retreat if you do not win contest.
Email entries attached as a Microsoft Word document to creativelivesworkshop@hotmail.com and a paypal invoice will be sent to you for confirmation of entry and payment. If no payment is received, entry is discarded. No exceptions.
Final Round entries are judged by the staff of the retreat, including a top-notch lit. agent and editor from Harper Collins.
Winners will be announced on August 1, 2009. Winner receives all tuition paid for retreat, not including transportation to and from Breckenridge, CO.
Dishes Partial-Tuition Scholarship:
60% off of a five day or eleven day retreat for October, 2009. Be the lucky one to do the dishes and help in the kitchen.
Deadline: June 15th, 2009
Winner Announced: July 1, 2009
How to Enter: Submit ala Letterman Style, a top-ten list of why you should be the person chosen to do the dishes of other writers/agents/editors.
Commitment: 2.5-3 hours a day of kitchen work. Mainly dishes, can be done while other's are eating or on own time, but must be done and accounted for. Prize: 60% off full tuition for October retreat. May pick five or eleven day retreat to attend. If first place winner asks for five day retreat, second place winner will have their pick of the session not signed up for by first place winner. Entries are free. Must go to creativelivesworkshop@hotmail.com and list should be in body of email with name, phone number, email address and choice of five day, eleven day and if choosing five day, which session is the preference if chosen as winner.
Judged by a committee of the insane.
All entries will receive a 5% discount to the retreat just for entering. Winner(s) will receive all services as if a full paying writer, as well as have preference for sign-up times for one-on-one sessions with agents/editors and authors during retreat. Winner must be able to handle the physical aspect of this scholarship. If any health conditions could interfere with performing the duties entailed with this scholarship, please do not apply for this scholarship. If winner decides to bring a spouse/writer friend to the retreat, remainder of payment to accompany this prize will be recalculated and sent as a total for the winner to pay via paypal.
May the best, most creative list(er) win! Good Luck! No excuse...go for it!
Winners of the Dishes scholarship as well as the Full Scholarship to the retreat will receive a gifted Writer's Toolbox.
Jamie Cat Callan has graciously donated three of her ingenious Writer's Toolboxes for our scholarship winners. Jamie Cat Callan has appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, The Missouri Review, American Letters & Commentary, UCLA Magazine, Word Riot, Story and How2. Her essays on beauty and fashion appear regularly in Bliss Magazine. And she writes the continuing adventures for Greta, The GreatSkin Gal.
Jamie’s literary awards include the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, The Goldwyn Award in Screenwriting, The New York State Council on the Arts Grant, First Prize in the Writers Digest Fiction Competition (twice), a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grant, a Bread Loaf Writing Conference Fellowship in fiction, and artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Djerassi Foundation, The Dorland Mountain Artist Colony, VCCA International, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.
Jamie Cat Callan’s latest book, “French Women Don’t Sleep Alone: Pleasurable Secrets to Finding Love” (Kensington) is forthcoming in March 2009. Jamie is also the creator of “The Writers Toolbox” and has taught her unique right brain approach to writing at Yale University, Wesleyan University, NYU, UCLA, Stonecoast’s MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine, Educational Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, The YMCA Writers Voice Program, at Grub Street in Boston and through Media Bistro in New York City.
"Writing Away Retreat was beyond a doubt, the most creative and inspiring thing I've ever done as a writer. I now have lasting friendships with incredible people. I've considered myself a "good" writer for a long time but having the opportunity to be critiqued (one of my favorite parts) by such talented and amazing people completely validated me and my life's ambition. Thank you for never making me feel like an amateur (because I haven't been published... yet). You have an amazing sense of what people mesh well together and I am honored to say that I was at the first of many, many retreats you will do. The scenery was gorgeous, the sit downs were so incredibly helpful, the food was extraordinary, and the creative energy that flowed through the house will remain unmatched I'm sure. I know that your retreat has spoiled me for any others I may attend that you aren't in charge of."
~Angie Harris
Writer attendee of Writing Away, October 2008