EMERGING ISSUES: WRITING RESIDENCIES

VKP Announces Writing Residency Fellowships

As a major new way of advancing the Project, and supporting faculty researchers in producing written analyses of their projects, VKP is creating a set of Writing Residency Fellowships to be piloted over the coming year.

The Writing Residency Fellowships are two-and-a-half day residencies at Georgetown (with potentially one on the West Coast). Faculty investigators should come with 5 pages of foundational writing, work intensively over two and half days critiquing one another's drafts, and spend time in extended periods doing additional writing. The goal of the residencies will be to leave with about 15 pages of material and a clear sense of a plan for completion.
		Residencies will be held at local Bed & Breakfast Inns

The Fellowship consists of support for travel and all expenses while in residence, as well as peer and consultation support before and after the residency on project write-ups.

There will be three residencies this year at CNDLS with 6 slots each.

People awarded writing residency fellowships would commit to the following:

delivering their foundational writing (presumably largely coming out of the posters but with some analyzed evidence) TWO WEEKS in advance of the residency,
reading their peers' work in the days leading up to the residency, and
producing a draft in the month or two following the residency.

The Writing Residency groups will NOT necessarily correlate to any particular working group.

For participants to be eligible for a Fellowship they must have a fully-developed and current poster online, and must have participated in a Triad conversation where their work has been discussed.

2003-04 VKP Writing Residency Schedule

	Applications Due	Pre-residency	Residency	Post-residency
November	October 12	5 pages by Oct. 23	Nov. 6-9	Article draft by Jan. 16
January	December 15	5 pages by Jan. 1	Jan. 15-18	Article draft by Mar. 26
March	February 22	5 pages by March 4	March 18- 21	Article draft by May 21
April	March 21	5 pages by April 1	April 15-18	Article draft by June 19
June	May 9	5 pages by May 20	June 3-6	Article draft by Aug. 7

The residency will be held at a local B&B and will begin on the Thursday evening with a dinner. Over the course of the weekend, participants will discuss sections of their text with their colleagues (in pairs and groups) and have a chance to meet with Project leaders to discuss their work. On Friday and Saturday, we will set aside large blocks of time for writing, and everyone will share about 15 pages in their Sunday morning small groups. The residency will end after lunch on Sunday.

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