Artist Publishing Cohort
at Louis Place
Remote
Deadline
Posted
at Louis Place is pleased to launch an open call for the Artist Publishing Cohort, a new initiative offering personalized support for artists with publishing projects in progress.
The Artist Publishing Cohort is designed to support individual writers as they chart a path to publication via access to regular practical and creative support on their publishing project, including coaching sessions with an aligned industry professional, weekly cohort workshops for creative feedback, monthly meetings with aLP staff to identify opportunities and connections, and a $1000 stipend to support their creative work.
About at Louis Place:
at Louis Place is a community for artists and writers. Through an accessible, collaborative online platform, at Louis Place is an ecosystem for artistic practice that values liberation, experimentation, cooperation, and shared leadership. Daily co-writing, weekly writing groups, monthly guest workshops, peer exchange, and other offerings connect participants to peers around the world. at Louis Place was created by and for writers marginalized by conventional writing communities, including Black, Indigenous, immigrant, disabled, and over-50 writers, as well as writers outside urban centers; it is open to everyone who shares our values.
Key Dates:
Application deadline: February 15, 2025 (11:59 PM ET)
Applicants notified: early March, 2025
Program dates: March 22, 2025 - September 30, 2025
Requirements
The Artist Publishing Cohort is right for:
- Visual artists, choreographers and performing artists, and other interdisciplinary artists whose primary training is outside of the field of creative writing
- Artists preparing a publishing project featuring their own creative work, such as a novel, memoir, monograph, or book of poems
- Artists looking for regular practical and creative support on their publishing project
- Artists looking to build their work in fellowship with other artists and writers
- Artists preparing work for digital publication, self-publication, or traditional publication
- Artists with projects actively and urgently in progress and ready for support
Successful applicants will have projects that are urgent, innovative, feasible, and aligned with aLP’s mission of supporting artists and projects marginalized by traditional artistic communities and publishing pathways.