19.34: Grants and Fellowships
Writing Excuses
Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Today we have a wildcard episode for you! We are talking about all the different ways you can sustain your writing career. Our host, Erin Roberts, has done an incredible job of applying for grants, fellowships, and residencies. So, we put her on the spot and got her to dole out advice and insights to help you sustain and develop your writing.
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Credits: Your hosts for this episode were Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, and Erin Roberts. It was produced by Emma Reynolds, recorded by Marshall Carr, Jr., and mastered by Alex Jackson.
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| 1:00.0 | Season 19, episode 34. |
| 1:04.0 | This is writing excuses. |
| 1:08.0 | Grants and fellowships. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Erin. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm Mary Robinette. |
| 1:12.0 | And I'm Dong one. |
| 1:13.0 | So we wanted to do an episode talking about how to get grants and how to get fellowships. |
| 1:19.0 | We've been getting a lot of questions on our Patreon about this over time. |
| 1:23.0 | Aaron has mentioned this on the podcast a couple of times and it's a thing that I think about a lot. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm unfortunately not as informed about it as I would like to be, so this is a little bit of us reeling Aaron about how to do this. |
| 1:34.2 | But you know, because of what I do and the friendships I have, I know a lot of people in the |
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