Work-in-progress Fellowship

The Latinx in Publishing Inc. (LxP) Work-in-Progress (WiP) Fellowship Program is designed to help support and create opportunities for aspiring Latinx writers. Work-in-Progress Fellowship will support one Latinx writer (living in the United States including Puerto Rico) with a manuscript in the Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, or Young Adult categories by pairing them with a Macmillan editor to help develop their manuscript over a 10-month period. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges.

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2022 WORK-IN-PROGRESS FELLOWSHIP

The Latinx in Publishing Inc. (LxP) Work-in-Progress (WiP) Fellowship Program is designed to help support and create opportunities for aspiring Latinx writers. This year's Work-in-Progress Fellowship will support one Latinx writer (living in the United States including Puerto Rico) with a manuscript in the Middle Grade (8-12 years old) or Young Adult categories by pairing them with Macmillan editor Jess Harold to help develop their manuscript over a 10-month period. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges. Macmillan will be given the first opportunity to read the finished manuscript and consider it for publication. In the event that a manuscript is not chosen for publication, the fellow is free to submit the manuscript elsewhere.


2022-2023 Fellow

SARAH MARIE JETTE (she/her) is Mexican American and grew up in Lewiston, Maine, in a house filled with books. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she served in the Peace Corps in Mongolia, studied rehabilitation counseling, and now has the best job in the world: teaching third graders. Jette was honored as a semifinalist in the 2022 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year recognition. Her book, What the Wind Can Tell You (Islandport Press, 2018) was on the 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards Must Read List, received the 2018 Lupine Honor Award from the Maine Library Association, and was on the 2018 New England Children’s Booksellers Advisory Council’s Windows and Mirror’s List. Jette lives in Massachusetts. When she's not teaching or writing, she's crafting with her three children or snuggling with her cats. 

2022-2023 mentor

JESS HAROLD (she/her) is an editor of children's books from picture books through YA, with a passion for stories that reflect the world for kids of all experiences. She's worked with some truly incredible authors including Angeline Boulley, Kacen Callender, and Joanna Ho. Jess began her career in marketing at Simon & Schuster Children's before moving to editorial at Scholastic. Now an Editor at Henry Holt BYR, she is eager to find more contemporary stories that center identity and its many intersections in the hopes of creating building blocks for a better world. 


Writer Stipend: Writer will receive a stipend of $5,000.

Term: 10 months (starting August 2022 - May 2023). The program is now accepting applications until April 22, 2022.

Eligibility Requirements: The Work-in-Progress Fellow will be a Latinx/o/a writer with an unpublished work in progress. Writer must be unpublished or with a previously published work that sold less than 5000 copies. Must be Latinx at least 18 years of age and reside in the United States or Puerto Rico, though they are not required to be citizens or “legal” residents. Latinx in Publishing defines “Latinx” as persons originating from, descendant from, or citizens of Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Manuscript Guidelines: Your WIP must be submitted in English, previously unpublished, and complete.

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