Tuition for the weeklong advanced workshops at Lit Fest is $1,180 ($1,330 for non-members) and includes an orientation before class starts, five workshop sessions, a one-on-one meeting with the instructor, breakfast and coffee on workshop days, all lunchtime business panels, tickets to the opening and closing parties, a digital one-year subscription to The Sun magazine, and discounted rates at local hotels.
Tuition for the weekend advanced workshops is $765 ($915 for non-members) and includes two workshop sessions, breakfast and coffee on workshop days, all lunchtime business panels, a ticket to the opening and closing parties, a digital one-year subscription to The Sun magazine, and discounted lodging at local hotels.
Payment Plans: Payment plans are available for all advanced weeklong or weekend enrollments, as well as passes. At this time, we're unable to offer tuition assistance for advanced weeklong or weekend workshops at Lit Fest (see information on fellowships below), though we do have tuition assistance available for the other offerings at Lit Fest.
Lit Fest Fellowships
Fellowships for Emerging Writers
The Lit Fest Fellowship for Emerging Writers covers the full cost of tuition for an advanced weeklong or weekend workshop. Lighthouse will award four fellowships for Lit Fest 2023 to advanced writers of fiction, poetry, TV/screenplay, and creative nonfiction who haven’t yet published a book-length work* and who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford a weeklong or weekend workshop.
A panel comprised of published writers and writing faculty will review each fellowship application, looking for talent, promise, and originality. The panel’s final decisions will also consider the applicant’s financial need. Please do not send letters of recommendation.
Applications close on March 11.
*We define a "published, book-length work" as a novel, memoir, nonfiction book, or story/essay/poetry collection written by you and published by someone else in print, on the web, or as an e-book.
Applications
Applications open on January 1, and the priority deadline was March 11. Applications received after March 11 will be accepted on a rolling basis, space permitting. Fellowship applicants will be asked additional questions on the application form.
Previous Fellows
We launched the Lit Fest Fellowships for Emerging Writers in 2017, and the Veteran Writers Award in 2018. Read about the recipients and judges here.
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