Get the Grant! with Lyzette Wanzer

Wednesdays, April 2nd - May 7th | This strategy- and information-packed workshop is open to writers of any genre who are planning to apply for a literary grant, fellowship, scholarship, or a national or international writers' residency opportunity in 2025 or 2026.

This workshop will cover:

*The dreaded Project Statement, Work Plan, or Goals and Objectives question
*How to demonstrate a rising trajectory (remembering that most people who are awarded grants are on their way up, not already there)
*Creating a professional literary CV
*Using headings and "buckets" to make your statement navigable
*How to craft clear, concise personal or "artist" statements (leave this class with a completed first draft in hand!)
*Why the marketing angle is so important
*Curating your social media profile to present yourself as a competitive applicant

Students should be computer savvy and prepared to engage in a range of hands-on activities.

Lyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over thirty literary journals, books, and magazines. Library Journal named her book, TRAUMA, TRESSES, & TRUTH: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives (Chicago Review Press 2022), a Top 10 Best Social Sciences Book. Lyzette is a contributor to Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth From the Margins (Wayne State University Press 2023), Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the San Francisco Bay Area (Pease Press 2019), and the multi-award-winning The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie 2012). Lyzette’s work has been supported with grants from Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Black Artist Foundry, The Awesome Foundation, and California Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities partner.