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Call for Artists: Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices

Applications are open for Lambda Literary’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. The deadline to apply is January 30, 2017.

Lambda Literary is proud to announce details of the 2017 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, the nation's premier LGBTQ writers workshop and residency. The Retreat will be held August 5-12, 2017 on the campus of Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

Faculty include Garth Greenwell (Fiction workshop), Malinda Lo (Genre workshop), TC Tolbert (Poetry workshop), Diana Cage (Nonfiction workshop), and Phillip Howze (Playwriting workshop). Faculty bios are listed below. Applications are now open online.

In 2007, Lambda Literary founded the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, a residency designed to offer intensive and sophisticated instruction to selected writers over a carefully designed one-week period. The Retreat provides open access to industry professionals and the opportunity for writing fellows to create an ongoing community of practice as they advance in their craft and careers. It is one of Lambda's most important initiatives: it represents the future of LGBTQ literature.

Applicants of the Retreat submit prose, poetry or theatrical manuscript pages that are evaluated for craft, creativity and originality. Twelve students per workshop are accepted into the competitive program where they spend the week working on their manuscripts, attending guest lectures led by publishing industry professionals, and participating in public readings in venues around Los Angeles. Ability to pay is in no way part of the decision-making process and scholarships are available. Lambda Writers Retreat Fellows have gone on to publish an impressive array of works.    

Lambda Fellows (Retreat graduates) are invited to return to attend faculty-led workshops or as "Writers in Residence" to work on a book in progress without needing to enroll in a workshop. Lambda Fellows should contact Kyle Sawyer, Programs Coordinator, at admin@lambdaliterary.org for more information.

Entering its 11th year, Lambda's Writers Retreat has gained an international reputation for nurturing talented writers and building a highly accomplished, diverse and engaged community of artists committed to advancing LGBTQ literature.
  
For more information and to apply, click here.

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