Deadline- November 1, 2012
Countries/Region- U.S
A Room Of Her Own(AROHO) Foundation for women writers & Artists invites nominations for 6th $50,000 Gift of Freedom award for stronger, more prestigious, and of greater benefit to even more women.
The $50,000 Gift of Freedom award is the largest of its kind for women writers. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s tenet that a woman must have money and a room of her own in order to write, the Gift of Freedom commissions a creative project by a promising woman writer/artist ready to restructure their life in order to complete their work within the two year period of the grant.
AROHO selects award recipients who not only demonstrate their talent, but also their motivation. These women must have solid creative goals and a specific project to accomplish during the two-year term of the grant. They should be able to show a track record of commitment to their art in addition to substantial efforts to be self-sufficient. In determining a recipient, we also consider the potential impact of the artist’s or writer’s proposed work on the broader community.
Purpose of this award is-
- The Gift of Freedom Application helps AROHO identify the woman writer with whom we will form a moral contract, leading to the completion of a particular creative project.
- The Gift of Freedom Application offers the opportunity to every woman who completes it to enter into a deeper relationship with her own writing. Many women have told us that the application process itself was life-changing. If applicant are a woman writer, the Gift of Freedom Application may help applicant to-
- identify and establish priorities in their writing life
- clarify and strengthen their relationship to the work that is their writing
- create a concrete plan to complete the project they’ve longed to finish
- find the will and a way to create a room of their own for yourself
Eligibility-
- Personal artistic objective to be realized over the grant period
- Definite project goal
- Spiritual aspect—at what level does the applicant’s art represent her spiritual identity and endeavor to further that identity;
- Unconditional moral contract to produce a certain project.
- The individual must be a citizen or legal resident of the United States who will be residing in the U.S. during the entire two year grant period.
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