RUMPUS MAGAZINE GUIDE TO AWP 2019 PROFESSIONAL

New Play Exchange is a professional networking site, much like LinkedIn, for playwrights and theaters to connect.

Playwrights should consider making an account on New Play Exchange.

Poets & Writers has another broad directory of job listings for positions related to the world of writing.

MLA Joblist is has an excellent inventory of job openings in academia.

contains informative blog posts on crucial topics such as “How to Find a Literary Agent” and “The Complete Guide to Query Letters”.

Disney, CBS, Paramount, NBC, Nickelodeon, and Warner Brothers have various initiatives to recruit new and diverse talent.

Screenwriters should consider taking advantage of UCR’s proximity to Hollywood by applying to internships, particularly in Writers Rooms.

Pictured: You, after successfully applying to fellowships

Poets&Writers contains fabulous directories promoting residencies, grants, and more.

At UCR, The Yefe Nof Residency allows one student the chance to spend two weeks in the solitude of Lake Arrowhead for the purpose of finishing a major writing project Notable fellowships in California include The Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and the Steinbeck Fellow Program at San Jose State.

Apply to funded fellowships and residencies to acquire time, space, and financial stability to pursue your creative endeavors upon graduation.

For those interested in teaching, The Gluck Fellows program offers $5,000 stipends to graduate students in exchange for community involvement promoting the arts in local schools.

The Center for Ideas and Society offers up to $2,000 in funding to UCR humanities students to support travel and research related to their manuscripts or dissertations!.

Pictured: You, getting in touch with your thespian roots

Check out the department calendar to learn more and consider reaching out and getting involved.

Similarly, Playworks does the same for 10-minute plays.

In the spring, The New Play Festival allows playwrights to hear their full-length and one-act plays performed aloud by undergraduate actors in a minimalist staged reading.

Riverside Studios is a newly available production space. There’s also an annual department film and smartphone film festival.

Filmworks, the annual department film festival, showcases original short films by UCR students, faculty, and alumni.

The Department of Film and Digital production offers MFA’s the opportunity to get involved in film and theatre productions and collaborate with faculty, staff, and the undergraduate student population.

This is a stellar opportunity for ambitious creators to put their work out into the world.

UCR alumna have deepened their connections to the Los Angeles creative community by self-producing productions in the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

For a very modest fee, writers gain access to legal protections as well as a useful curated list of opportunities (theaters open to submission, residencies, workshops, events, you name it.)

Playwrights should join the Dramatist Guild of America.

Pictured: This post, carrying you along to your next conference.

Check out this comprehensive list to find more conferences that suit your interests.

In the past, panelists have including Roxane Gay, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Margaret Atwood.

Each year, UCR brings an array of authors to campus during Writers Week.

With panels such as “AgentAccess: Everything You Need to Know About Agents But Were Too Afraid to Ask” and “Best Practices for Plot-Making”, the AWP Conference is a totally awesome, expansive opportunity for prose writers to network and explore their craft.

This is a (really!) excellent opportunity for career development, exposure, and networking with peers.

For playwrights, I recommend submitting your work to the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival as well as attending the regional festival.

To help you start your MFA experience off strong, we’ve compiled a breakdown of Creative Writing MFA opportunities to look out for at UCR and beyond!ĭid you know you can acquire funding through the GSA to attend and present in conferences in the US and abroad? Conferences can be transformative to your relationship with the field.

Pictured: You, trying to listen in as second years talk about fellowships

The truth is, everyone feels this same sense of confusion when they begin their grad program. As with all disciplines, when you first start out it feels like your peers all know more about the important conferences to attend, journals to submit to, and funding to apply for than you do.

The MFA can be a difficult world to navigate for emerging writers and scholars.

Rumpus magazine guide to awp 2019