Top 10 Tips for Grant, Fellowship, & Residency Applications

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As the recipient of 10 artist residencies and 11 grants and fellowships, Lyzette Wanzer shares the top tips you need to know to position yourself as a competitive applicant for literary grants, fellowships, and artist residencies.

Being a good grant writer is not enough. Did you know that these opportunities do not always go to the most talented writers or the most compelling proposals? There’s both an art and a science to curating your candidacy as a successful applicant.

Learn the signposts that review panels and vetting committees seek in your presentation, project, and presence, and avoid the faux pas that raise doubts, unease, and questions in reviewers’ minds.

Lyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over thirty literary journals, books, and magazines. Library Journal named her book, TRAUMA, TRESSES, & TRUTH: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives (Chicago Review Press 2022), a Top 10 Best Social Sciences Book. Publishers Weekly featured the book in Fall 2022. Lyzette is a contributor to Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth From the Margins (Wayne State University Press 2023), Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the San Francisco Bay Area (Pease Press 2019), and the multi-award-winning The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie 2012).

A National Writers’ Union and Authors Guild member, Lyzette’s work has been supported with grants from Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Black Artist Foundry, The Awesome Foundation, and California Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities partner.

Presented by California Writers Club – Berkeley

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