Career Development Grant

My goal is to participate fully in a 6- month one-on-one biweekly workshop with poet, translator, teacher and Editor Patrick Donnelly with the end goal of completing my manuscript for submission to publishers. I will dedicate time for revision and editing after my sessions with him, allowing me the chance to apply the suggestions and edits he proposed. I will also use a portion of the money to attend Association of Writers and Writing Programs' 2015 Writer's Conference, allowing me to meet various publishers, participate in many presentations and panels covering a wide variety of pertinent writing topics and grow my profession network of writers. I will use four methods of evaluating my success in my stated goals. 1) A written statement from Patrick Donnelly confirming my completion of an 6- month workshop, including any information he would like to include on the improvements he saw in my writing. 2) A written statement from myself stating the concrete areas in which I saw improvement in my writing during my time with Patrick. 3) Active submission of my manuscript after completion. 4) A receipt from Association of Writers and Writing Programs Convention registration and a 1-page statement on what I gained after attending.