This year marks the second annual Laura Hruska two-week writing fellowship held at the Wellstone Center in the California Redwoods.

It’s a terrific opportunity for a writer to hunker down and get to work in one of the most beautiful places on the planet.

Interested? Details below.

Co-founder of the award-winning independent publisher SOHO Press, Laura Hruska was also an attorney and novelist who published under her maiden name, Laura Chapman. A lifelong lover of books and story, Laura discovered talented writers who have gone on to have long and productive careers, including MacArthur Fellow Edwidge Danticat and best-selling mystery writers Cara Black and Jacqueline Winspear, to name a few. The Laura Hruska Fellowship is open to writers of literary fiction, mystery fiction or young adult fiction. The winner will be chosen based on a combination of a strong voice, compelling story and quality writing. Please submit thirty to fifty pages of your novel, a rough synopsis and a list of any writing awards, citations, credits or residencies, as well as up-to-date contact information for three references who can talk about you and your work. Deadline to apply: September 1, 2018. Mail your application materials, along with a cover letter explaining why you think you would be a good fit for a Wellstone Center in the Redwoods residency, to sarah@wellstoneredwoods.org and please put “Hruska Fellowship” in the subject heading. The fellow will come to the Wellstone Center for two weeks in October, November or early 2019, the specific dates to be determined.

Continue reading on the Wellstone Center’s website.

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