Before you apply for this opportunity, please read the FAQs.
To apply for a place on the Representing Wales programme, you’ll need to submit:
- A completed application form
Representing Wales 2024-2025 Application Form
The application form will ask for your personal details, including details which will help us assess eligibility, and information about your career as a writer so far. We’ll also ask about your ambitions as a writer and why you believe the Representing Wales programme could help you at the current stage of your writing career.
- An example of your unpublished creative writing for adults
The application form will ask you to upload one of the following options:
- 4-8 poems;
OR - A chapter of your creative non-fiction manuscript, that you wish to develop in this programme (max 2,000 words)
OR - A chapter of your fiction manuscript, that you wish to develop in this programme (max 2,000 words)
OR - if your work in progress is performative, we ask that you please note this within your uploaded document. Alternatively, we welcome video submissions of creative work which can be sent via a WeTransfer link to post@literaturewales.org.
- if your work in progress is a graphic novel, we suggest that you upload a summary of the story (synopsis) with your application and email a sample of completed storyboard pages (with text and illustrations) to post@literaturewales.org
- 4-8 poems;