All winter long, I’ve been visiting the cabins at Storyknife, checking everything out, and they’ve been very dark, sleepy almost. But now, the rugs have been shaken out, fresh linens put on the beds, every part scrubbed and shined. The crew is back at Storyknife, preparing for the new season of writers that will begin April 1st.
In conjunction with this fresh start, we’ll have a second go at the Founder’s Fellowship Challenge. Just as she did last year, Dana Stabenow is issuing a challenge to match the fellowship and travel scholarship funds that she donates each year. Storyknife fellowships are $5500 to underwrite one writer while in residency. Dana also offers a $1000 scholarship to support the travel of one resident. We have several exciting new fellowships this year, as well as the Rona Jaffe Foundation fellow that will be awarded for a 2025 writer. If you’d like to read more about the other fellowships currently being offered you can check them out here.
If you’d like to sponsor a fellowship, please let me know at ehollowell@storyknife.org. Sponsors of a fellowship are encouraged to specify what kind of writer they’d like to support, name the fellowship, and when possible meet with their fellows. It’s a wonderful way to know that you’re making a difference in a woman writer’s life.
Starting today and through April, Dana is challenging us to raise $6,500 to match her annual donation. A donation in April not only honors Storyknife’s Founder and her continued support but ALSO will support a woman writer putting her heart on the page.
If you’d like to dedicate your donation to Dana, or to anyone else who has positively impacted your life, please let us know on the donation form.
We’re very excited to kick off the year, planting the seeds of good writing that will undoubtedly blossom into good reading for all of us and a more joyful and hopeful world.
Storyknife Writers Retreat 