The Charles Pick Creative Writing Fellowships are dedicated to the memory of the distinguished publisher and literary agent, Charles Pick, whose career began in 1933 and continued until shortly before his death in January 2000. Charles Pick encouraged young writers at the start of their careers with introductions to other writers and practical and financial help.
There are two Charles Pick Creative Writing Fellowships: the Charles Pick Fellowship and the Charles Pick Fellowship for South Asian writers. Both Fellowships seek to continue this spirit of encouragement by giving support to the work of a new and, as yet, unpublished writers of fictional or non-fictional prose. The Fellowships' dual purpose is to give promising writers the opportunity complete a major work and to develop his/her talents.
Fellowships are for six months, starting on 1 October. The award is £10,000 and includes accommodation on campus at the University of East Anglia.
Previous Charles Pick Fellows
Ret'sepile Makamane (2010-11)
Jon Lewis-Katz (2010-11)
Birgit Larsson (2009-10)
Simi Awosika (2009-10)
David Sornig (2008-09)
Erin Soros (2008-09)
Lois Williams (2006-07)
Brian Chikwava (2006-07)
Sam Fletcher (2005-06)
Alistair Daniel (2004-05)
Luke Williams (2003-04)
Thomas Frick (2002-03)
The Tibor Jones South Asia Prize: with support from the University of East Anglia, the British Council and the Charles Pick Fellowship, Tibor Jones has recently announced the 2012 Tibor Jones South Asia Prize. For more information about how to enter, please visit http://tiborjones.com/prizes/south-asia-prize/
For information about the rules of the prize, visit http://tiborjones.com/prizes/south-asia-prize/rules/
Apply for the Charles Pick Creative Writing Fellowships:
-
2012/13
If the successful applicant is currently living outside the UK and requiring certificate of sponsorship, he or she will need to meet the UK Border Agency's requirements.
Information, terms & conditions (PDF) South Asia information, terms & Conditions (PDF) -
2012/13 Application form:
MS Word | PDF
South Asia application form: MS Word | PDF -
2012/13 Reference form:
MS Word | PDF
South Asia reference form: MS Word | PDF***The 2012/13 Award is no longer open for submissions***
(Application deadline: Tuesday 31 January 2012)
2011/12 Creative Writing Fellowship Awards
Helen Dinmore
Helen Dinmore is a writer from Adelaide, South Australia. She graduated from the Creative Writing program at Flinders University in 2010 with First Class Honours and several academic and writing prizes, including the University Medal. She has worked as a publishing assistant and manuscript assessor, and her short fiction and poetry has appeared in a number of Australian literary journals.
She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, where she is writing two interlinked novellas exploring themes of pacifism and resistance, and the relationship between historical and dystopian fictions. During the Fellowship she will be working on a novel, The Great Dying, about creationist pseudo-science, a hippie commune, and a dead rock star.
Will Boast
Will Boast was born in England (Southampton) and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award. His fiction and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices, Narrative, Salon, Glimmer Train, The American Scholar, and The New York Times, among other publications. From 2008-2010, he was a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University; he’s currently a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia in the UK. He’s currently working on both a novel and a memoir. An excerpt from the latter is forthcoming in The Atlantic.
www.willboast.com
