Diverse TV Writers: Don't Miss the HBOAccess Writing Fellowship

Calling all diverse TV writers! The HBOAccess® Writing Fellowship will open for entries on March 1^st, and will accept entries only through March 4^th at 12pm ET / 9am PT.

The HBOAccess® Writing Fellowship is a great opportunity – and a highly sought-after one for TV writers of diverse backgrounds. Last year, popular demand and a high volume of submissions caused the application site to crash! This year there's no cap on the number of entries they'll accept, which should alleviate the possibility of a similar surge in entries. (Still - plan on submitting early in the window.)

The HBOAccess Writing Fellowship is designed to give emerging, diverse writers the opportunity to develop a half-hour or hour script suitable for HBO or Cinemax.

The program will select up to 8 diverse writers to take part in a series of master classes held over one week in July at the HBO campus in Santa Monica. Classes will consist of discussions with HBO executives and showrunners and will focus on the craft of writing, including structure, story and character, as well as the business aspects of securing an agent and effective networking.

Each participant will then be paired with an HBO or Cinemax development executive, who will serve as his/her mentor over the course of 8 months.

So get those TV samples ready! Submissions must be an original scripted half-hour comedy pilot or one-hour drama pilot, one-act play or full-length play. No feature film scripts, webisodes, short stories, novels, graphic novels or blogs will be accepted.

Full details and rules can be found here.