When Did You Start Your Writing Career in a Serious Sense (Year)?
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Please complete this questionnaire prior to class, and bring it with you (or have it on your device).
Name:
When did you start your writing career in a “serious” sense (year)?
What genre(s) of writing do you do?
o Creative nonfiction
o Essays
o Fiction
o Journalism
o Poetry
List the literary journals, magazines, or newspapers (if any) in which you’ve had work published.
How often do you submit your work to publications or contests?
o weekly
o few times per month
o every few months
o few times per year
o haven’t done this yet—but I’ll get on it!
1 | P a g e G e t t h e G r a n t ! L . W a n z e r List the last 4 public reading events you’ve done, with dates (bookstore, community, panel, professional conference, LitQuake, or open mic readings).
Which professional development classes/workshops/webinars have you completed in the past 5 years?
o Center for Cultural Innovation’s (CCI) Business of Art workshop
o CCI’s Business of Art: Entrepreneurial Training for Artists Boot Camp
o CounterPULSE’s Boot Camp for Artists
o Foundation Center’s Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts class
o Foundation Center’s Proposal Writing Basics class
o Foundation Center’s Day for Individual Artists full-day seminars
o any class given by California Lawyers for the Arts
o Creative Capital’s Financial Literacy for Artists and/or Authentic Branding workshops
o Creative Capital’s Internet for Artists
o Gigi Rosenberg’s Give A Good Reading
o Gigi Rosenberg’s Fund Your Projects
o Session put on by local arts council
o Other ______
Which literary grants have you applied for in the past?
o Investing in Artists grant (Equipment or Artistic) from CCI
2 | P a g e G e t t h e G r a n t ! L . W a n z e r o SF Arts Commission’s Equity Grant
o Quick Grant from Creative Capacity Fund
o other Bay Area literature grant (for equipment, artist fee, time off for writing, etc.)
o other non-Bay Area literature grant
o haven’t applied for any yet
Which residencies have you applied for within the past 5 years? (If none, put N/A)
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Did you receive one or more of these residencies? Yes Not yet
Have you been a nominee for, or been “short listed” for, a major grant/award opportunity such as The San Francisco Foundation, your
3 | P a g e G e t t h e G r a n t ! L . W a n z e r city or state’s Arts Commission, NEA, NEH, Fulbright, Writer’s Digest, a journal-sponsored writing competition? Please list.
How many literary events do you attend each year, on average? Which ones?
o local bookstore readings
o professional conferences (AWP, MLA, CEA, PCA, etc.)
Is there video of your readings on YouTube?
Do you have business cards for your literary career, listing you as “author,” “poet,” “essayist,” etc.?
IMPORTANT: Please bring with you to class:
a printed copy of your literary CV/resume
laptop computer, iPad, or tablet
be sure your LITERARY LinkedIn profile or Amazon author page is professional and up to date! We will review it (just as many grantmakers do)
your artist statement, if you have one
two program copies, tear sheets, reviews, or promotional pieces from events in which you’ve given a reading or sat on a panel (printed announcement from a print or online publication, brochures from your event, a poster, an article about you)
4 | P a g e G e t t h e G r a n t ! L . W a n z e r 5 | P a g e G e t t h e G r a n t ! L . W a n z e r