2025 Fresh Voices Fellowship/ How to Apply (Up to $2000)
Applications are now open for the 2025 Fresh Voices Fellowship. They encourage writers who work outside the traditional literary and academic systems to apply. Also, applicants must not have an advanced degree in English, creative writing, or other related fields, and must not be enrolled at the time of application in any degree-granting program. Applicants also must not have published.
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Epiphany is also offering everyone who applies to the Fresh Voices Fellowship a free digital subscription to Epiphany. The program will provide applicants with a code for a free digital subscription in its initial response letter upon applying for the fellowship.
Eligibility For The 2025 Fresh Voices Fellowship
The Fresh Voices Fellowship supports one emerging Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other writer of color who does not have an MFA in creative writing nor an advanced English degree (MA, PhD), and is not currently enrolled in a degree-granting program.
Requirements for The 2025 Fresh Voices Fellowship
Work Sample: Applicants must include a 5-page sample (double-spaced for prose) of previously unpublished work that you feel most represents them, their interests, and their literary style. (If applicants are sending a novel excerpt, please include a short synopsis of the novel and an explanation of where, in the story, the excerpt falls.)
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Benefits
One writer, in prose or poetry, will receive:
- A $2000 stipend
- Publication in a print issue of Epiphany
- A one-year subscription to Epiphany
- The opportunity to participate in the editorial and publication process of a small non-profit literary magazine, and to build close relationships with the editorial team during the course of a twelve-month fellowship
- A Q&A to be published on Epiphany’s website.
