Maine Lit Fest - Open Call Event Fellows
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Open Call Event Fellowships
This year, we’re inviting Maine writers and readers (living outside of Portland) to dream up, pitch, and carry out 2026 Lit Fest events.
We’re looking for literary events & activities that:
- Embrace the spirit of community and highlight a range of writers and/or writing.
- Arrive as fully-formed ideas that you and/or a group of people are energized to carry out.
- Occur in locations beyond Portland. [We’d love to offer events in as many towns and cities as possible, to reflect the abundance of reading and writing communities that we see happening all year long.]
We’re not interested in:
- Individual book launches or author promotional events.
- Ideas that still require substantial fleshing out.
- Event/activities that occur in Portland.
Send us your proposals from December 31, 2025 to February 15, 2026. We’ll select two ideas to support and help you carry out as part of the 2026 Maine Lit Fest
Open Call Event Fellow will receive stipends of $500 and small project budgets (between $750 and $1,500) to produce their events.
QUESTIONS? Contact MWPA associate director Taryn Bowe at taryn@mainewriters.org with questions or if you'd like to view a strong sample proposal from a previous year.