The WFP hopes to bring together a mix of talented fiction, theater and film writers. In the past, Fellowship participants have ranged in age from their early 20s to mid 50's. WFP writers have come from a variety of backgrounds.

Writers with no professional or academic writing experience have participated in the Fellowship as well as writers who have already established themselves as playwrights, novelists, or short story writers.

NOTE: We take special care to encourage new writers to apply, and many  young, unpublished and unproduced writers have participated in the Fellowship.