Registration deadline: February 22, 2011
Application deadline: April 1, 2011

The Public Programs category offers project support to organizations that present professional writers to the public as part of a reading series. It also offers support for other public literary programs including workshops, book discussion groups led by published writers, lectures by writers, writers' tours, and literary programs involving electronic media. This category serves new applicants and organizations whose primary focus is not literary. Funding in this category is directed toward writers'/curators' fees and promotional activities.

Prerequisites

Applicants offering literary programs to the public must have completed at least one year of programming and should present a minimum of four literary readings per year.

Writing workshops should offer a minimum of eight consecutive sessions per year taught by professional writers and be open to the public.

Reading series at colleges and universities are eligible to apply if they are promoted to and attended by the general public, and provided they are not offered for college credit to students.

All applicants are expected to demonstrate an ongoing commitment to paying writers' fees. (Refer to www.LitTAP.org on writers' fees for updates on suggested minimum fees.)

Application Instructions

Application Narrative Questions

Artistic/Programmatic

1. Literary Program Overview
Describe your curatorial (artistic) approach to the reading series or writing workshops for the request year, including discussion of your artist selection process. Provide a one-sentence biography on 4 of the writers/teachers proposed for the request year. (Provide complete roster of names on the Literary Presenters' Fact Sheet.)

2. Artist Fees
Discuss your policy regarding payment of artists' fees. Explain any changes or improvements planned.

Managerial/Fiscal

3. Fiscal Overview
The Council may only support up to 50% of a project's cost. Describe specific plans, projects and activities for meeting current and future expenses for your literary programs, including income earned from admissions and sales. Detail organizational efforts to increase individual and foundation/corporate donations for your literary programs.

Service to the Public

4. Audience/Promotional Overview
Describe the audience for your literary programs. Describe the specific marketing and promotional efforts that will be used to target and broaden this audience for the request year, including use of online resources. Note the names of publications in which you advertise and the size of your mailing and e-mail lists.

Support Materials

5. Support Materials
Please list all of the support materials and/or work samples you are submitting. These materials are critical to your application's assessment.

Support Material

Support material must be postmarked, hand-delivered, or made available online by the application deadline. Please direct them to your appropriate contact at: NYSCA, 175 Varick Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10014 or rzukerman@nysca.org or cleahy@nysca.org.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Refer to the Instructions for Work Samples and Support Materials prior to submission.

NYSCA encourages the submission of Web-based Work Samples and Support Material whenever possible.

1. Representative promotional brochure/calendar, listing literary programs produced in the current year.

2. Résumés of key literary personnel, including literary coordinator or curator.

3. One copy of sample of anthology or publication produced by the writing workshop (if applicable).

4. Complete the Literary Presenters' Fact Sheet, and email sheets (PDF format is preferred) to lit@nysca.org.