We ask that all applicants apply via Submittable form by midnight on Wednesday 15 May, 2024. 
We will ask you to submit the following into one .PDF or .doc/.docx document:

A short cover letter (approx. 1 page) including home address and Eircode/postcode.
In your cover letter, please include the following:

• Why would you like to be selected for the Foundation Programme?
• How will this opportunity benefit your writing practice? (you may wish to write about the supports listed in the programme outline above e.g. mentoring, Foundation Day, performing at DBF, etc.)

Curriculum Vitae (max. two A4 pages)
Two samples of work (max. 500 words each or up to two poems)

Participants will be selected on the basis of:
 

• Intent: Your reasons for wanting to participate in this programme will form a key part of the selection process. Be sure to tell us how you feel taking part in the Foundation Programme will help you to move forward with your work.
• Demonstrated commitment: Places on this programme will be awarded to writers who are taking steps to build a professional writing career. We ask that you tell us what you have already done to develop your creative practice or engage with Ireland’s literary community to date. It is not essential for applicants to have been published to be eligible.
• Work sample: Please note that this sample does not need to have been published, can be of any genre or form, and should be 500 words max. or up to two poems.This work does not need to be the piece that you submit for feedback from the writer-mentor.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria

Applications will be evaluated by an external selection panel, with reference to the case made in your statement.

· These schemes are open only to writers aged eighteen or over who are living on the island of Ireland and are a part of an underrepresented background / community in the arts.

· Applicants can apply for more than one support scheme as long as they are eligible under each individual scheme.

· If you have benefitted from this scheme in the last three years you are ineligible to apply. This is in the interest of benefitting as many Irish writers as possible.

*Due to the volume of applicants we are not in a position to give individual feedback to applicants, unless they have been interviewed, depending on the scheme. This policy extends across all of our calls in the interests of equity and transparency, and because, as a small team, we don’t have the capacity to give individual responses.

Tá an scéim seo oscailte do scríbhneoirí nua agus gairmiúla atá ag scríobh i nGaeilge.

Déanfaidh painéal moltóireachta neamhspleách measúnú ar na hiarratais. Beidh na moltóirí ag iarraidh na sparánachtaí a bhronnadh ar réimse iarratasóirí ó chúlraí éagsúla a léiríonn go soiléir an tairbhe a bhainfeadh siad as an scéim.

Tugaimid spreagadh do dhaoine a bhfuil tearcionadaíocht acu i saol na litríochta in Éirinn iarratas a dhéanamh. Cuirimid fáilte ar leith roimh dhaoine gorma, dúchasaigh nó de chine daite (BIPOC), LADTAIÉ+ (LGBTQIA+), daoine den lucht siúil, daoine le míchumas agus scríbhneoirí den lucht oibre.

This scheme is open to emerging and professional writers writing in the Irish language. 

Applications will be assessed by an independent selection panel, with judges seeking to award a diverse range of applicants who have clearly demonstrated how they would benefit from receiving a course bursary. Applications will be assessed by an independent selection panel, with the panel seeking to award a diverse range of applicants who have clearly demonstrated how they would benefit from receiving a course bursary. 

We encourage writers from backgrounds typically underrepresented in Irish literature to apply. We particularly encourage applications from Black, POC (person of colour), Traveller, Roma, LGBTQ+, disabled and working class writers.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria 

These schemes are open only to beginner and emerging writers aged eighteen or over who are based in the Dublin City Council area*, and who are underrepresented in the arts in Ireland. 

Applicants can apply for multiple support schemes as long as they are eligible under each individual scheme. 

Applications will be evaluated by an external selection panel, with reference to the case made in your application. 

*Ballymun, Finglas, Artane, Whitehall, Clontarf, Donaghmede, Cabra, Glasnevin, North Inner City, Kimmage, Rathmines, Pembroke, South East Inner City, Ballyfermot, Drimnagh, South West Inner City 

This residency opportunity is exclusively for Professional Irish Writers Centre members* who are over the age of 18 and living on the island of Ireland.

*Professional IWC Membership is our initiative to better support and engage with writers who rely on writing as a source of income. There are a variety of eligibility requirements to qualify for professional membership (You do not need a full book published to qualify). Not yet a member? It is quick and easy to sign up for professional membership once you meet the eligibility requirements. Find out more here.

Please note that this is a fiction-writing residency only (prose, novel, short stories).On this occasion, writers who exclusively practice non-fiction or poetry are not eligible for this programme.