Changemaker Authors Cohort is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program from Narrative Initiative, supporting full-time movement activists and social justice practitioners to complete books that create deep, durable narrative change, restructuring the way people feel, think, and respond to the world. Narrative Initiative weaves the power of narrative into social justice movements to achieve long-term equity.
Are you a movement activist or social justice practitioner with a great book idea or a manuscript in the works? Changemakers Authors Cohort is opening up the application process for the first cohort of 12-15 diverse authors to participate in the Changemaker Authors Cohort, a uniquely supportive writing program.
WORTH
- A selection of a cohort of 15 diverse changemaker-authors to participate at no cost in the Changemaker Authors Cohort, our unique supportive writing and coaching program will be made.
- Those selected for no-cost participation will also receive a stipend of $1,000.
ELIGIBILITY
- Applicants should be movement activists and social justice practitioners who have a story to tell. We want to support works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and graphic storytelling that are consistent with your—the applicant’s—lived experience of building justice. This can include books that are about communities building and using their power through organizing and activism, as well as works of imagination that contribute to the plurality of voices in the broader artistic and cultural discourse.
- Applicants should be people who are not working as a full-time writer but have a work in progress or a strong concept for a book of any genre (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, graphic storytelling, hybrid/other) that fuels the momentum of social justice and movement work. A strong concept is specific, not vague — e.g. “a book about anger” vs “a book about survivors and how to live with the rage that arises from our experiences.” A strong concept entails a couple of components: A single, focused book idea (not a few different options of books you COULD write). A clear sense of what research would be needed (if any), that the research is already done, or the book draws from experience you have already had.
- People who want to be in community with other changemakers who are also committed to writing.
- Applicants should have the time and commitment to develop their book idea into a submittable package over the course of the 12-month residency, beginning March 1, 2022 and ending February 28, 2023.
- Applicants should not be enrolled in a degree program at the time of their participation in the cohort.
DEADLINE: November 20 2021
To apply and for more information visit here
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