Stegner Fellowship

The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty member who founded the university's creative writing program.

Ten fellowships are awarded every year, five in fiction and five in poetry. The recipients do not need a degree to receive the fellowships, though many fellows already hold the terminal M.F.A. degree in creative writing. A workshop-based program, no degree is awarded after the two-year fellowship. Prior to 1990, many fellows also enrolled in Stanford's now-defunct M.A. program in creative writing.[1][2]

Fellows receive a stipend of $50,000 per year, as well as health insurance and their tuition fee for Stanford.[3] Fellows are required to live close enough to Stanford to be able to attend all workshops, as well as other department-related readings and events.

  1. ^ McNally, John (15 April 2010). The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 9781587299490. Retrieved 8 October 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows « Stanford Creative Writing Program". Creativewriting.stanford.edu. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
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