Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2024
This program is open to you if you are Black, Indigenous, or a person of colour.
Learn about managing a literary magazine and help curate an issue of the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s online literary magazine, carte blanche.
Each year, the Fresh Pages Editorial Mentorship gives a Quebec-based writer the chance to learn about editing or managing literary magazines.
For the 2024 Editorial Mentorship, the selected candidate will work with Managing Editor Zoe Shaw to oversee the production of issue 49 of carte blanche, gaining coordination and administration skills while learning how to manage a literary magazine.
The mentorship provides:
- Approximately 15 hours of mentorship between July and August 2024
- An $800 honorarium
- A free one-year membership (or extension of membership) in the Quebec Writers’ Federation
The mentorship will go to a Quebec-based writer who shows promise and has an interest in arts administration or managing literary magazines, but who has not yet had an opportunity to work as an editor. Applicants do not need to be QWF members.
Your Mentor
Zoe Shaw is a writer and editor based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. She has worked in communications and administration for non-profits, publishers, academic departments, and consulting groups. She writes poems sometimes.
Website: zoeshaw.com
@zoestropes on Instagram and YouTube
Eligibility
- Applicants must live in Quebec and be Black, Indigenous, or a person of colour.
- There is no age or publication requirement. Applicants do not need to be a current QWF member. We invite students and seniors to apply.
- Writers who have already worked as an editor for a professional magazine or literary journal are not eligible to apply.
Timeline
- Call for applications: March 20, 2024
- Deadline for applications: April 30, 2024
- Notification of results: end of May 2024
- Period of mentorship: July–August 2024
- Publication of carte blanche issue 49: Fall 2024
How To Apply:
Please submit the following:
- A cover letter (maximum 1 page), including:
- Confirmation that you meet the eligibility criteria
- Why you are interested in this editing mentorship
- Your full name and a way to contact you
- A sample of your writing (maximum 2 pages); any genre is accepted, including:
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- Poetry
- Translation (French to English only)
- Comics
Submit to [email protected] or by mail to:
“Fresh Pages” Editing Mentorship
Quebec Writers’ Federation
1200 Atwater Ave., Room 3
Westmount, QC H3Z 1X4