TITLE
The Halls and Wallace Poetry Fellowships & the McCreight and Houck Smith Fiction Fellowships, or HEAF Fellowship
ORGANIZATION
University of Wisconsin-Madison
TYPE
fellowship
GENRE
poetry or fiction
DESCRIPTION
Since 1986, the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing has provided time, space, and an intellectual community for writers working on a first book of poetry or fiction. Since 2012, we have also considered applicants who have published only one full-length collection of creative writing prior to the application deadline, although unpublished authors remain eligible, and quality of writing remains the nearly exclusive criterion for selection. Altogether, our poetry and fiction fellows have published more than a hundred full-length collections and novels, many of them winning major national honors.
At present, the Institute annually offers up to five year-long fellowships, including for the first time ever this year, the Ron Wallace Poetry Fellowship, named in honor of the founder of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the Program in Creative Writing at UW-Madison. Typically there are two fiction fellowships (the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellowship and the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship), two poetry fellowships (the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellowship and now the Ron Wallace Poetry Fellowship), and one fellowship in either fiction or poetry for a graduate of the University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing (the Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship).
The Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship (the HEAF) is awarded to a graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Creative Writing MFA program who has either published one book of fiction, poetry or other creative work, or who has not yet published a book in any of those genres. Poets and fiction writers will be eligible for the HEAF in alternating years. In February 2016 we will be considering HEAF applications in fiction only. We will consider poetry applications in February 2017.
The recipient of the HEAF will be determined by an outside judge. The name of this judge will be withheld until the HEAF has been announced. Applications should arrive during the month of February. Details and frequently asked questions regarding these fellowships can be found on the fellowship applications page of this website. The Institute may decline to give the HEAF award in any year it deems appropriate.
DEADLINE or READING PERIOD
December 15 – February 1
ENTRY FEE
$50
paid online by credit card. (This fee is waived for HEAF applicants only)
ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible, applicants must have completed or be scheduled to complete an MFA or PhD in Creative Writing by August 15, 2016. Eligible applicants may have published no more than one full-length collection or book of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction as of the February 1 deadline. Individuals who have never published a full-length collection or book are, of course, eligible. Successful applicants must commit to reside in the Madison area for the full duration of the Fellowship from mid-August to mid-May (holiday travel, weekend trips, and attendance of the AWP and/or MLA conferences are of course permitted within reason); to teach once section of undergraduate mixed-genre or single-genre creative writing each semester; to hold no other teaching, graduate study or fellowship obligations; to assist in the selection of the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, the University of Wisconsin’s undergraduate writing prizes, and the following year’s Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships; and in general to participate fully in the life of the Madison writing community during the fellowship period. For more details regarding the responsibilities and privileges of our fellows, please see the main fellowships page.
PRIZE
Each of these fellowships carries with it a $30,000 stipend ($27,000 plus a $3,000 “welcome” prize paid in August), generous health benefits, and a one-course-per-semester teaching assignment in intermediate or advanced undergraduate creative writing. Since this is a residential fellowship, we expect fellows to reside in the Madison area, to hold no other teaching, graduate study or fellowship obligations, and to participate fully in the life of the Madison writing community during the fellowship period.
GUIDELINES
- A resume or curriculum vitae, concluding with the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of two recommenders. You will upload this CV separately, after uploading your manuscript
- A writing sample consisting of either 10 pages of poetry (single-spaced and uploaded as a pdf) or up to 30 pages of fiction (double-spaced and uploaded as a pdf). Fiction applications must consist of either one short story or a novel excerpt. Your name must not appear anywhere on your manuscript, and while previously published work may be submitted, your manuscript must in no way indicate that your work has been published.
METHOD OF SUBMISSION
https://wicw.submittable.com/Submit
SITE
http://creativewriting.wisc.edu/fellowships.html
CONTACT
Sean Bishop, Administrator
Program in Creative Writing
Department of English
600 N. Park St, H.C. White Rm 6195
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
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