The Center and the Colony offers Summer Fellowships for fiction, nonfiction and poetry writers beginning May 26, 2012 through August 18, 2012. During a Fellowship month, the mentoring faculty will be headed by three highly regarded writers. Greg Curtis will mentor Nonfiction, Meena Alexander, Poetry, and Jeffery Renard Allen the Fiction fellows, each of whom will be in residence for one month.

The Colony’s fellowships are designed to facilitate a balance between a focus on individual work and a forum for discussion among emerging writers. In the evenings, occasional readings and presentations will allow attendees to become acquainted with and inspired by the work of other Fellows. Friendships established among writers in-residence often lead to collaborations and connections beyond the Colony.

The Mailer Fellows will meet at the Mailer home, two times a week to read and discuss their work. In addition distinguished writers will from time to time, visit the Mailer home to share their professional experiences with the Fellows. Past visitors have included Gay Talese, Da Chen, David Margolick, Sonia Sanchez, Don DeLillo, and editors from the New York Review of Books, Playboy and Vanity Fair,

Five applicants each from fiction, nonfiction and poetry, based on merit, will be chosen for this in- residence program. Each successful Fellow's award will cover full tuition and condo housing for the entire one month period of residency. Each Fellow will have a private bedroom, and access to full kitchens, living rooms / writing space, internet, other resources for writing, and a bicycle for local transport. No funds are provided for food and travel to and from Provincetown.

The Fellowship programs are made available to the Colony through its Fellowship sponsors and patrons of the Mailer Center. Again this year Van Cleef and Arpels is the lead sponsor for poetry.

For a taste of the 2011 Fellowship, visit The Mailer Fellowship Blog.