Wallace Stegner Fellowship
Stanford University Creative Writing Program Stanford · open to applicants worldwide
Two-year non-degree fellowship at Stanford for fiction writers and poets, with weekly workshops, a living stipend, paid tuition and health insurance.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your personal statement, tailored résumé and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
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About
What it offers: $75,000 living stipend per academic year.
Also: tuition and health insurance covered; weekly workshops at Stanford.
Who can apply: Open to all who are interested (no degree required); fellows should not hold full-time jobs during the fellowship.
Annual: applications open September 1 and close early November. Next deadline: 2026-11-02.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: writing sample, statement.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “Applications for the 2027-2029 cohort are now open and will close on November 2”
Who can apply
- Open to creators and freelancers
- Open to all who are interested (no degree required); fellows should not hold full-time jobs during the fellowship.
What you will need
- Work samplesOnly you can supply it: upload it once and it is attached wherever it is asked for.
- Personal statement / SOPOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name. The deadline is 2 November 2026.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your personal statement, tailored résumé and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Stanford University Creative Writing Program without your tap.
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