The Write Practice Fellowship Program

Join The Write Practice Fellowship!

The Write Practice is excited to announce the launch of our Fellowship Program, a special group of blog post contributors working on a blog series.

If you’re interested in writing a blog series for The Write Practice (and potentially getting published), this program is for you.

Read on for the benefits of becoming a Fellowship Program contributor.

All Writers Need a Community to Succeed 

Writers who want to grow their writing craft and make a career as a writer need a writing community. All of us, at one point or another, suffer from that icky voice in our head telling us we’re not good enough. Other times, we’re confused about writing instructions, or too much information leads us to slip into paralysis of analysis. How can we peel out the resourceful, helpful writing advice from a lot of noise? 

Here at The Write Practice, we value our writing community and are constantly thinking of innovative ways that we can support our people. If you aren’t familiar with this yet, one of our resources that we build to do this is our writing blog. 

Each week, we post several posts catered to helping writers grow their skill sets—written by contributors and guests who have been there. Professionals who get it—and who have practical, applicable advice on how to improve whatever it is their fellow writers are struggling with. 

The Write Practice maintains these same intentions with the Fellowship Program. Only now, we’re taking blog posts and contributors one step further—by turning blog ideas into a series that, in the end, our small press will publish.  

But what is the Fellowship Program? And why should you apply for it? 

What is the Fellowship Program?

The Fellowship Program is a special segment on the Write Practice blog where applicants-turned-contributors publish a blog series about an important topic that writers want to learn. Once a series is accepted, writers optimize their posts on a bi-weekly schedule, working as a regular contributor to the blog. 

Blog series should be about an important topic related to writing—i.e. a parent topic that writers need to know in order to strengthen their fiction and/or nonfiction writing. 

Each parent topic should be able to support ten to thirty individual posts that build on this topic. Think of this like a book title and the table of contents that really digs into teaching that topic. Eventually, we will turn your posts into a book—but more on the below. 

For some running examples of current blog series, check out:

• Elements of Suspense by Joslyn Chase
• How to Write Faster by J.D. Edwin
• The Hero’s Journey by David Safford (coming soon!) 
• The Write Structure by Joe Bunting

And while it’s super cool to have your series on a blog that reaches 5 million readers a year, that’s not the only advantage of writing as a fellowship contributor. You also will have the chance to:

SEO, or search engine optimization, is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website. Basically, think Google. 

At The Write Practice, it’s important to us that we deliver the best post possible content for writers searching for specific terms. To do this, we use software that helps us understand what people are searching for, and how to answer all their questions. In other words, we’re looking to satisfy search intent that helps the writer, not just the computer.

For instance, if a writer wants to learn how to write a book in third person, they might type in Google something like “writing in third person POV.” With some research, we find that “writing in third person” is a great search term, and after the contributor finishes this post, we help them optimize the post so it satisfies search intent. 

The good news? We do this research for you! That way, we can find the balance of sharing the topics you want to teach, but also making sure there are writers out there looking to learn about this specific topic. 

We help you make writing your posts worth the time and attention. 

As a contributor, you will work closely with The Write Practice Content Editor on building your blog series, and writing and editing your posts. Whether you prefer a hands-on or hands-off approach, we will support your writing and editing process from your first post to the end of your series. 

All contributors can expect to have consistent communication with the Content Editor in order to build and improve their blog series, using both email and video calls.  

After your blog series is complete, you will work with the Content Editor to turn your series into a book! 

Blogs and books do have differences, and the Content Editor will support you in this process. Once it’s complete, The Write Practice Press will publish your book (and help you market it).  

Curious what this looks like? Check out some of our books that began on the Write Practice blog:

• The Write Structure by Joe Bunting
• Scrivener Superpowers by M.G. Herron 
• 14 Prompts by Joe Bunting
• Let’s Write a Short Story by Joe Bunting

When do Writers Start?

The first step to become a Write Practice fellowship contributor is to apply. Our team will review your application and your idea for your series. This review process takes about a week. If we agree that the series is a great fit for The Write Practice audience (great job!), the Editor In Chief and Content Editor will contact you and ask you to write a sample post. 

Here at The Write Practice, we use three formats to write blog posts, which you can read about here. We strongly recommend using one of these templates when writing your sample post.

After we review the sample, we may invite you on as a contributor (congratulations!). The Content Editor will jump on one more call to discuss your post and format, and then we’ll set you up to begin writing on the blog.

Welcome to the team! You’ll officially begin your series on The Write Practice.   

Where is Each Blog Posted? 

Each post is published on The Write Practice blog following a bi-weekly schedule. 

You can expect to submit the draft for each post one week before publication, giving the Content Editor and you time to research and optimize it before it’s shared. 

How Can I Pitch a Good Blog Series?

Often, what we think writers need to know isn’t exactly what they’re looking for. To do some research on whether or not writers want to learn the content you’ll write in your blog series, try these three strategies:

• Google what you think you want to write about. Are the top ranking posts relevant to what you’re thinking about writing? If not, try a different search term. See anything yet? Google until you find ideas relevant to what you’d enjoy writing about. If nothing ever comes up, it probably isn’t a term that most writers search for. Keep going until you find something that does (and that you like)! 
• Come up with ten to thirty topics. You need to be able to support your blog series parent topic with ten to thirty individual articles. Can you do this? What would they be? How are they different? 
• Practice. Here at The Write Practice, we’re big fans of doing just that, practicing! Ideally, your series and eventually book will work like a writing workbook. You’ll notice that there is a fifteen-minute writing exercise at the bottom of every Write Practice blog post. Each of your posts should also include a practice exercise. The goal here is to support by teaching them what they’re looking to learn, and also empowering them to apply that knowledge now. The practice exercise encourages and instructs readers on how to do this. 

Blog Ideas We Are Especially Interested In:

• Characterization
• Literary Devices
• Grammar
• Parts of a Story
• Publishing
• Point of View
• Something creative that you'd enjoy researching and writing!

Why Will This Program Benefit Writers?

Writing is a lifelong craft! No matter what stage you’re at in your writing career, there’s always something to learn. At the same time, we don’t want to trip writers up so much that they start slipping into paralysis of analysis or are confused by constantly changing jargon.  

The Write Practice blog series are built to give a writer all that they need about a certain topic, and encourage them to write a book and/or practice their writing craft with the series.  

It won’t just teach writers the information; it will call them to practice it!  

I’m Ready to Apply! Where Can I Do This? 

Does the The Write Practice Fellowship Program sound like an amazing fit for you? Wonderful! We’d love for you to apply!

You can apply now by filling out this application: