Individual Artist Fellowship Grant

With funding from the McKnight / Arts and Cultural Heritage Individual Artist Fellowship Grant, I will be able to supplement my income in order to have more writing hours and fund mentorship/manuscript critique through The Loft Literary Center with Patricia Weave Francisco. By the end of the funding period I will have published four new short stories from my collection and written/revised enough stories to create a full and cohesive collection of short fiction intended for publication in 2017. Along with Patricia Weave Francisco, I will create two work plans aimed at developing my existing stories and writing new pieces for my collection. The first work plan will be implemented as soon as funding is available and after Patricia has the opportunity to review my submission. My work will take place from September 2015 to January 2016. Upon completion of the first phase, Patricia and I will meet again to review the new draft and develop a second work plan that will bring the manuscript to a near-final draft by the end of the funding period. My work will be evaluated based on the execution of the work plans, the publication of four new stories, and a complete working draft by July 2016.