The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is offering the “Imagination” fellowship which invites writers to explore how imagination has influenced them and others.

“Has imagination helped you confront and deal with a problem? Or, has it helped you form a new idea that changed your life or led you to a creative outlet that you didn’t know existed?” a release on the fellowship says.

The work for the fellowship may be in any literary genre: fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, drama or screenplay, or a combination. It may take place now or time the past or may draw upon the life of the author or probe other lives. There is no expectation of a certain attitude or type of experience.

The successful application will demonstrate insight, honesty, literary merit, and the likelihood of publication or production, according to WCDH. Prior publication is not a requirement.

The fellowship winner will receive a twoweek residency at WCDH to focus completely on their writing. Each writer’s suite has a bedroom, private bathroom, separate writing space and wireless internet. Things provided include uninterrupted writing time, a European-style gourmet dinner prepared five nights a week and served in a community dining room, the camaraderie of other professional writers when desired and a community kitchen stocked with the basics for other meals.

Fellowship applications must be accompanied by a writing sample and a non-refundable $35 application fee. Writers proposing more than one project must submit a separate application and fee for each one.

The submission period opened Oct. 16 and the deadline is midnight on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. The winner will be announced no later than Feb. 26, 2024. Residency must be completed by March 2025.

For more information visit writerscolony. org/fellowships. For more information about funding a fellowship supporting the genre and/ or area of interest you are passionate about, visit writerscolony.org/sponsor-a-fellowship.