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Call For Writers: Artist Residency at The Annenberg Community Beach House

The City of Santa Monica is offering a 10-week writer's residency at the Annenberg Community Beach House from January 16 to March 26, 2012. The residency provides a private office space and $1,500 honorarium. Applicants must be writers living in LA County working on a project. They will be expected to hold weekly public office hours and monthly events. Applications are due November 4 and should include a writing sample, resume, and two letters of recommendation. A jury will select one recipient based on the quality of their work and ability to engage the public.

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Call For Writers: Artist Residency at The Annenberg Community Beach House

The City of Santa Monica is offering a 10-week writer's residency at the Annenberg Community Beach House from January 16 to March 26, 2012. The residency provides a private office space and $1,500 honorarium. Applicants must be writers living in LA County working on a project. They will be expected to hold weekly public office hours and monthly events. Applications are due November 4 and should include a writing sample, resume, and two letters of recommendation. A jury will select one recipient based on the quality of their work and ability to engage the public.

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Call For Writers

Artist Residency at the Annenberg Community Beach House


Application Deadline: Friday, November 4, 2011, recd by 5:00pm

Introduction The City of Santa Monica, Cultural Affairs Division, seeks applications from writers living in Los Angeles County for a residency at the Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica. The Artist Residency offers a large private office in the historic Marion Davies Guest House for ten weeks to complete a work in progress. Residency Description In celebration of Marion Davies support of artists and to further the work of artists in all disciplines, the Division has established an Artist Residency program at the Beach House. The Residency begins Monday, January 16, 2012 and concludes Monday, March 26, 2012 for a total of ten weeks. The Residency offers an ocean front place to work an upper floor office in the restored Guest House of the former Marion Davies estate. The City seeks to provide an opportunity to writers who both need a place to write and are interested in sharing aspects of their work for the publics benefit. This program is best for writers who will be able to use the residency period to finish or make significant progress in their work, and are able to hold weekly office hours and monthly critiques, readings, workshops or conversations with the public. If the applicant wishes to suggest other public activities in lieu of these, proposals are welcome. The City may also require the Resident to represent the Residency to the press. As an acknowledgement of the public benefit of the Resident to the community, an honorarium of $1500 is offered. The Residency is non-residential; no room/board is offered. The City will provide a lockable office with desk and chair, wireless internet access, refrigerator/microwave access, and a parking pass for the duration of the residency. No other resources, including computer, printer, phone, or other equipment will be provided. Annenberg Community Beach House The Southern California beach occupies a unique place within the physical and cultural landscape of America, and the Annenberg Community Beach House at Santa Monica State Beach has quickly become a popular destination for those seeking a
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quintessential day at the beach. Consisting of several structures at the historic site of the Marion Davies estate, the Beach House includes the historic Guest House and Pool, and the new Event House, Pool facility, and outdoor areas. A public place henceforth, the site at 415 Pacific Coast Highway has seen an evolution from private ownership to public management. Interpretive and cultural projects at the Beach House offer a continuum connecting the past, present and future. For information and images of the site, please visit http://annenbergbeachhouse.com. The Annenberg Community Beach House is made possible through a generous gift from the Annenberg Foundation at the recommendation of collector and philanthropist Wallis Annenberg, and in partnership with California State Parks and the City of Santa Monica. Selection Process The Residency is open to all writers of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, and screenplays living in Los Angeles County with work in progress, who have not received a Beach House Residency in the past two years and who are not currently arts grantees or resident artists through another City of Santa Monica program for the same time frame (January through March of 2012). The Residency will be awarded to one writer, and writing teams are not eligible. The panel will take both the quality of work and the ability of the applicant to carry out public interactions into consideration. Please note that monthly events will be aimed at adult, rather than youth audiences, and weekly office hours will be a minimum of four hours a week, to be held on those days that the Guest House is open to the public. These are subject to change, but are most likely to be Mondays and Saturdays. A complete application (see list below for details) will include a writing sample, two letters of recommendation, an application letter, and the applicants publishing history, if any. Lack of a publishing history will not disqualify a writer from being selected. Applications will be reviewed by a jury of writers and educators. Notification of the selected Resident will take place the second week in November. Submission Requirements The City, in compliance with its Sustainable City Program, encourages the use of recycled and tree-free products. To this end, we ask that submissions be sent via email to the contact information on the next page. Please submit the following as part of your application, the first three in a single .doc or .pdf file: 1. An application letter which details your interest in and benefit to be derived from the Residency, preference for types of monthly events (lectures, readings,

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interview/conversations with other artists, workshops, or applicant-proposed events), availability for public office hours, and publishing history. 2. Up to 10 sample pages of writing in one file, .doc format or .pdf format. For poetry, 5 poems will be accepted; for screenplays and plays, 20 formatted pages will be accepted. If a mixture of genres, the total page count cannot exceed 10 pages. Please title the sample file Firstname Lastname SAMPLE. 3. A professional resume/CV/biography which includes your residential address 4. Two (2) letters of reference, emailed or mailed directly from the recommender (reference letters must arrive by the due date below). Please have recommenders title their emails Recommendation for Firstname_Lastname. For mailing address see below. NO APPLICATION MATERIALS WILL BE RETURNED. Contact & Due Date For questions about the Residency, please leave a message for Naomi Okuyama, Cultural Affairs Coordinator at 310-310-0187 or email isanaomi.okuyama@smgov.net, well before the due date for applications. For information on the Annenberg Community Beach House, it is recommended that you first visit the Beach House, but you can also visit http://annenbergbeachhouse.com. Applications must be received by 5:00 PM on Friday, November 4, 2011. Please email submissions to isanaomi.okuyama@smgov.net. Snail mail: The City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division Attention: Writer Residency PO Box 2200 Santa Monica, California 90407-2200

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