NEA Creative Writing Fellowships Q&A - February 2023

Learn how to apply for the $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in prose before applications are due on March 8. Liz Breazeale, winner of a 2020 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, will answer your questions about applying for the fellowship and provide tips on how to make your application stand out.

Side B of this workshop involves crafting a short piece of work based on the material we’ve discussed during the lesson. Students will share their lines with the workshop for a truncated feedback session.

Instructor:

Liz Breazeale was awarded a 2020 Creative Writing Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. Originally from Missouri, she holds a BA in Creative Writing from Missouri State University and received her MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University in 2015. She’s served as an editor for numerous literary journals, the Mid-American Review, Blue Monday Review, The Adroit Journal.

Liz is the recipient of the 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize for Fiction for her first short story collection, Extinction Events, which was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2019. Her fiction has been featured in the Best of the Net anthology, nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and selected as runner-up for the Wabash Prize. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Hayden’s Ferry, The Collagist, Fugue, Pleiades, Fence, The Sycamore Review, Passages North, Booth, Territory, and others.

Liz works as a technical editor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She lives in Denver with her cat April Ludgate-Breazeale. Liz is working on her second book, a short story collection of feminist body horror.

Please RSVP/register for this free remote online program to receive the Zoom link.

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Details: NEA Creative Writing Fellowships Q&A - February 2023 takes place Wednesday February 1 from 7:00-8:00pm remotely online via Zoom.

Format: Short informational presentation w/ Q&A session.

Location: This class takes place remotely online via Zoom.

Cancellations & Refunds: This is a free event. If you have any RSVP/registration questions, email info@litcleveland.org.

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