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Posted - 10 Sep 2004 : 18:39:55
The year-long NUS-FASS and The Arts House Writing Fellowship programme is now open for application submissions. Starting in December 2004, the fellowship will focus on works written in English in its first year.
This developmental programme seeks to nurture emerging Singaporean writing talent as well as the creation of new literary works from Singapore.
FELLOWSHIP PRIVILEGES
The appointed Fellow will be given:
- An annual stipend of $54,000 ($4000 per month plus a $6000 success bonus at the end of the year)
- Library and computing resources and a room at NUS and The Arts House
- Opportunity to interact with the community including young writing talents.
FELLOWSHIP OBLIGATIONS/REQUIREMENTS
The fellow is required over the course of the year to:
- take up the Fellowship on a FULL TIME basis.
- complete a written work in any of the following genres: prose, verse, stage play, radio play or screen play, of a standard ready for publication by the end of the fellowship.
- interact with the community and stimulating interest in critical discussion and new writing among young people through regular public programmes.
- spend at least two days a week in each organisation on public programmes.
- touch base with line managers from NUS and The Arts House who will help monitor (but not dictate) the progress of the Fellowship.
- submit a quarterly progress report.
Upon the successful completion of the year-long stint, The Arts House and FASS-NUS will look to publishing or staging the completed work. Copyright remains with the Fellow.
ELIGIBILITY
To qualify, all applicants must:
1. Be either a Singaporean citizen or PR
2. Not be enrolled as a full time student in an undergraduate or graduate programme or fully employed by any organisation at the time of appointment of the Fellowship
3. (IF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED) have published his/her first book or staged his/her first work NOT MORE than 7 years ago.
APPLICATION
Applicants must submit by 30 September 2004:
1. 6 copies of a representative body of work to display accomplishment and committment to a literary career, and
2. a proposal for the Fellowship outlining his/her plans based on the Fellowship requirements, paying special attention to plans for generating interaction and discussion among young writers.
3. Send applications by 30 Sep 2004 to:
Associate Professor Robbie Goh,
Head, Dept of English Language and Literature,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
National University of Singapore,
Block AS5, 7 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Applicants will be selected for his/her artistic excellence and potential, and the strength of his/her proposal for activities during the fellowship. There will be a selection interview for shortlisted candidates.
The Fellow will be announced in Nov 2004.
NOTES
- Applicants should submit work written no earlier than 1997.
- All manuscripts should be typewritten. Any handwritten work will be disqualified
- Submit only copies and not the original. If the submission is a copy excerpted from a published source, the submission must include: title page showing title of work and name of author; a page showing name of publisher and year of publication; contents page
- fiction must be typed double space (except those excerpted from published texts)
- poetry manuscripts should not be typed double spaced.
- plays and screenplays must be submitted in the proper format.
- include a title page with title of work, author's name and year work was completed.
For more information, contact: Assoc Professor John Richardson, email: fasrj@nus.edu.sg |
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