Go Into The Story Resource: Hollywood Writing Fellowships
List and links to multiple writing and mentoring programs.
List and links to multiple writing and mentoring programs.
On May 16, 2023, Go Into The Story turned 15 years old — you can read the very first blog post here. I led with this paragraph:
Welcome to Go Into The Story! Right now, it’s nothing but a humble, threadbare blog, but I hope it will evolve into an active resource for aspiring screenwriters, as well as a community for anyone interested in storytelling and the creative life.
And evolve it did! To the point where it was recently named “Best of the Best” Scriptwriting Website in the 20th Annual Writer’s Digest Best Websites for Writers list.
To celebrate 15 years of blogging about screenwriting, writing, Hollywood, movies, TV, and the creative life, each day in May, I’m going to feature a piece of Go Into The Story trivia, plus a writing resource you can find in the site’s archives. This is not an exercise in self-congratulations so much as I figured readers could use some tips about how to best use the site. With — to date — over 100 archive topics, there is a LOT of content here. Hopefully, these posts this month will clue in more recent followers and remind long-time readers about resources you can use to facilitate deepening your understanding of the writing craft.
Today’s Go Into The Story resource: Over the years, I have aggregated links and information for Hollywood Writing Fellowships.
There are multiple writing and mentoring programs sponsored by Hollywood television networks and movie studios. Here is a list of those which — mostly — do not require a submission fee. Yes, that’s right… free.
Sundance Episodic Writers Program [$40 entrance fee]
WarnerMedia Access Writing Program
ViacomCBS Writers Mentoring Program
Walt Disney Television Writing Program
WB Television Writers Workshop
National Hispanic Media Coalition Series Scriptwriters Program
These programs have an emphasis on television writing, so if that is an area of interest for you and you have written original TV plot scripts, what is keeping you from applying for any/all of these programs?
If you know of other such free programs, please post in comments.