The DIVINE Mentoring Scheme for Emerging Writers
Six UK-based writers will be chosen through an open submission process. Writers will need to have a specific project, which they will work with the mentors towards realising. Writers will need to be at a point in their writing career where they are willing to move onto the next stage, and be open to exploring the structure and form of their work. The selection panel will also take into account the writer’s evident commitment to being an artist (through a record of sending out work to journals and publishers and/or through readings).
download application form
Fee: £550
Chroma is committed to supporting the next generation of queer writers
bursaries are available
please see application form
Deadline for applications:
5 January 2009
Interviews: 12 & 13 February
in London at venue TBC
* Sample of Work
Poets: 10 poems
Prose: 3 stories or 3 chapters
Please send:
Application FormProject DescriptionCV Narrative Account of Career Sample of Project*
Mentored writers will meet with mentors once a month between March and November 2009, and attend 3 group workshops in that period.
Writers will receive individually-tailored tutorials, as we strongly believe each writer has a style, a readership and a way of working that is unique to them. Writers will devise assignments with the mentors to cultivate the writers' strengths and address their weaknesses. Writers will have the opportunity to work towards preparing a manuscript for submission to a publisher/agent.
In collaboration with Maia Press.
