Deadline: August 15, 2024
Applications are open for the Changemaker Authors Cohort 2025. The Changemaker Authors Cohort supports full-time movement activists and social justice practitioners to complete books that create deep, durable narrative change that restructures the way people feel, think, and respond to the world. This program supports cohort members to make significant progress with their project at the end of each term, which includes manuscript completion or having a submittable manuscript or proposal ready.
Cohort members will enroll for an initial four-month term beginning March 1, 2025. Cohort members who attend all sessions may apply for two 4-month extensions to participate in the program for a full year ending February 28, 2026. The program is co-created by Narrative Initiative and the Unicorn Authors Club, and partially resourced by the Ford Foundation.
Benefits
Writers selected for the Changemaker Authors Cohort enjoy all of the benefits of the Unicorn Authors Club:
- 1:1 coaching for your book & your writing process (two sessions per month)
- Solve Your Story group coaching
- Craft talks to level up your skills (live & recorded)
- Book proposal template & strategy
- Access to curriculum vault with tools to help you finish your book
- Café Unicorn co-writing sessions
- Guest speakers
- Intensive 5-day virtual writing retreat
- Revision strategies
- Publishing resources
- 24/7 discussion forum with peers & coaches
- Graduation Showcase with agents & editors
Eligibility
They are seeking applications from people working towards racial and social justice (for example: activists, organizers, popular educators) who:
- Are not full-time writers.
- Have a book in progress or a well-developed book idea.
- Will consistently set aside time for their writing and attend online coaching appointments, cohort meetings, and a mid-year 5-day writing retreat.
- Have a history of making community change and working on social justice issues.
Application
For more information, visit Changemaker Authors Cohort.
