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LitUp will provide five emerging writers with an all-access paid retreat, a three-month mentorship, and marketing support from Reese's Book Club.

    About LitUp

    In partnership with Hello Sunshine and Madcap Retreats, WNDB is excited to help oversee LitUp, a women’s writer’s fellowship for unpublished, underrepresented voices.

    LitUp will elevate, mentor, and champion first-time authors so more diverse stories are seen, heard, and read by all.

    LitUp Year 2

    The LitUp Roadmap

    Hone Your Craft at the LitUp Writer's Retreat

    Selected authors will participate in an all-expenses-paid writer's retreat to develop their manuscript and learn about the business side of publishing.

    Get Mentored and Build A Support Network

    Post retreat, fellows are matched with a published author for a three-month mentorship to get their book ready for market.

    Join the Reese's Book Club Family

    Through it all, LitUp stands with you every step of the way. Including a first-look window with top agents and a book launch marketing commitment from Reese's Book Club and its partners.

     

    How to Apply

    To qualify, LitUp candidates must identify as a woman author from a diverse background according to WNDB's Definition of Diversity (defined below) who is also unagented and unpublished. Submission must be an original completed adult or young adult fiction manuscript featuring a woman at the center of the story, written in English. Five fellows will be selected.

    Applications are open until May 31, 2022. Learn more and apply on the LitUp website.

    Definition of Diversity

    We recognize all diverse experiences, including (but not limited to) LGBTQIA, Native, people of color, gender diversity, people with disabilities*, and ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities.

    *We subscribe to a broad definition of disability, which includes but is not limited to physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities, chronic conditions, and mental illnesses (this may also include addiction). Furthermore, we subscribe to a social model of disability, which presents disability as created by barriers in the social environment, due to lack of equal access, stereotyping, and other forms of marginalization.

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