SOZOPOL FICTION SEMINARS:
OPEN CALL 2013
When: from 23 to 26 May 2013. Application deadline: 15 March 2013.
The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation offers its sixth annual summer fiction writing seminar in the ancient town of Sozopol, Bulgaria. The seminar program consists of intensive daily fiction workshops, roundtable discussions, guest lectures and literary readings by faculty and participants. Fiction writers from Bulgaria and fiction writers from English-speaking countries, including but not limited to the U.K. and the U.S., are invited to apply. A total number of ten applicants will be selected for participation and funding.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Five participants writing in English and five writing in Bulgarian language will receive scholarships. A scholarship covers tuition, room and board, in-country transportation, and 50% of international travel expenses.
PROGRAM AND FACULTY
Morning workshops will be led in English by Elizabeth Kostova (US), author of the best-selling novels The Historian (2005) and The Swan Thieves (2010), and in Bulgarian by Vladimir Levchev (BG), author of nineteen poetry collections (four published in the U.S.) and the novels Krali Marko: The Balkan Prince (2006), 2084 (2009) and The Man and the Shadow (2012).
Guest lectures will be provided by Richard Russo (US), a writer and a screenwriter, a Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel Empire Falls (2002), author of the filmed novel Nobody's Fool (1994), and Vladislav Todorov (BG/US), a writer and a screenwriter, author of the filmed novels Zift (2010) and Zincograph (2010).
The program in Sozopol, Bulgaria, includes also roundtable discussions, meetings with distinguished international and Bulgarian editors, publishers, translators, as well as literary readings.
Follow-up events, organized as part of the long-term program of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation CapitaLiterature, will take place on 28 and 29 May 2013 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
APPLICATION PROCESS
In order to apply, the applicants must complete an online submission form and attach all materials as required: a biography (maximum 300 words), a statement of purpose (maximum 1 page) and a fiction writing sample (an excerpt from a novel or a short story/stories; at least 10 and not more than 20 pages; Times New Roman, 1800 characters per page, including gaps). Please note that each file and page of the attached excerpt must contain the applicant's name and the text title.
A letter of reference, sent directly to the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation via e-mail by the reference, is required in addition to the online application. The reference letter should be sent to silieva@ekf.bg.
Only online applications, available here http://www.ekf.bg/ekfa/en/apply.php will be accepted!Technical requirements: Please name the files you are submitting online using ONLY Latin letters, numbers, dashes and underscores! Please do NOT use commas, spaces, quotation marks, apostrophes, inverted commas and any other symbols. The allowed file formats are: .DOC, .DOCX, .RTF, .PDF.
Please note that all application materials and all pages should contain the author's name. Applications, which do not meet all technical requirements will be disqualified.APPLICATION DEADLINE
15 March 2013, 24:00, UTC - 04:00 (EDT)
CONFIRMATION
All candidates will receive a confirmation message from sozopolfictionseminars@gmail.com shortly after 15 March 2013. Please be certain that your e-mail account is set to receive e-mails from this address. If you do not receive a confirmation within one week of the deadline for submissions, please contact: sozopolfictionseminars@gmail.com.
NOTIFICATION
All approved applicants will be notified via e-mail by 15 April 2013. The results will be published on the website of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation not later than 30 April 2013.