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Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship Program
231 W. Olive Avenue
Burbank, CA 91502
United States
818-736-3663
info.writing@nick.com
www.nickwriting.com
| | Contact: | Karen Kirkland, Program Director
| | | Description: | Nickelodeon is offering writing fellowships in live action and animated television to writers with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Participants will have hands-on interaction with executives writing spec scripts and pitching story ideas.
| | | Objective: | This program stems from Nickelodeon’s commitment to encouraging meaningful participation from culturally and ethnically diverse new writers. We will be offering Nickelodeon fellowships in live action and animation television. Nickelodeon Productions will provide a conditional three-tiered salaried position for up to one year. The program is tentatively scheduled to begin in September 2005.
| | | Eligibility: | No previous writing experience is necessary. Domestic applicants only.
| | | Entry Fee: | No fee.
| | | Type: | TV Scripts
| | | Promotes: | Minorities
| | | Originates From: | United States
| | | Occurrence: | Once
| | | Sponsored By: |
| | | Start Date: | 1/2/2010
| | | Submission Deadlines: | 2/28/2010
| | | Winners Announced: | Chosen Fellows will be notified by the end of September 2009.
| | | Rules: | ~ No previous writing experience is necessary
~ You must be 18 years or older to participate
~ Domestic applicants only
If you have previously applied to the program and have not been selected as a fellow, you are welcomed and encouraged to apply again, however you are required to submit a different spec script for each new submission period.
For consideration, a completed application package must include the following: the application form, two copies of a spec script, a one-page resume, a half-page biography, and a submission release form and schedule A that will allow us to read your material.
Application materials should be clipped to the front of the writing sample and not bound within material.
Appropriate spec scripts must be:
~ Comedic
~ Live Action or Animation
~ Based on a half-hour television series
~ Currently on air
The following materials will not be considered: feature-length screenplays, hour-long dramas, pilots, treatments, outlines, plays, short stories, books, graphics, magazine/newspaper articles, or audio/video tapes or digital media.
For consideration spec scripts must be:
~ typed in standard script format
~ in black ink
~ in 12pt courier style font
~ on 8-1/2 x 11, 3-hole punched white paper
~ with only two brass fasteners (top & bottom)
All scripts must contain a cover page listing the title and your name, address, and telephone number.
The following will not be accepted: loose leaf pages or scripts bound in 3-ring binders.
| | | Prizes and Awards: | Developed to broaden Nickelodeon's outreach efforts, the Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship is designed to attract, develop and staff - new and experienced, culturally and ethnically diverse writing talent on Nickelodeon Network productions.
Operating in a three-phased structure, the Fellowship provides a salaried position for up to one year and offers hands-on experience writing spec scripts and pitching story ideas in both live action and animation television.
This three-phased structure allows fellows an opportunity to nurture relationships with creators, network executives, line producers, head writers, showrunners and story editors.
| | | More: | Semi-finalists will be notified by the end of August, 2010
Finalists will be notified by the beginning of September 2010
Chosen Fellows will be notified by the end of September 2010
All others will be notified, by mail, by the end of October 2010
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