2020 Art Writing Incubator Feb 01 - Jul 05, 2019 Online
Burnaway’s signature annual writing intensive, the Art Writing Incubator (AWrI), returns for its eighth cycle in Summer 2020. In four virtual sessions taking place in June and July, leading critics and culture writers from around the country will give half-hour live-streamed lectures on topics including cultural criticism and long-form feature writing. These lectures will be available for free to the public.

Selected participants who complete the application below will join these writers and critics for an online, hour-long private discussion following each public lecture. Participants will also receive one-on-one tutoring from Burnaway’s editors through video conferencing over the course of the program.

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Beginning with an introductory session led by Burnaway’s editors on June 27 and break for the Fourth of July weekend, the program will take place over three Saturdays from July 11 through July 25.

RSVP to the public talks for AWrI here. Respondents will receive a streaming link on the day before each talk is set to take place. Find more information about the guest critic for each session below.


Featuring sessions with

Editors of BurnawayJune 27, 11:30 am EDT

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Logan Lockner, editor; Jasmine Amussen, assistant editor; Kristina Kay Robinson, New Orleans editor-at-large; and Ade Omotosho, Miami editor-at-large

Lindsay Preston ZappasJuly 11, 12:30 am EDT

Lindsay Preston Zappas is an L.A.-based artist, writer, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla). She is the host of The Carla Podcast and an arts correspondent for KCRW, where she does regular on-air segments and produces a weekly newsletter called Art Insider. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2013. She has contributed to texts to FlashArt, ArtReview, SFAQ, Artsy, Art21, and others. Recent solo exhibitions include the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (Buffalo, NY), Ochi Projects (Los Angeles), and City Limits (Oakland).

Christina LeeJuly 18, 11:30 am EDT

Christina Lee is a music journalist. Her work has appeared in publications including the Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionAtlanta magazine, BillboardThe Guardian, Pitchfork, Red Bull Music Academy, Rolling Stone, and others. She co-hosts two podcasts: Bottom of the Map by WABE and PRX, where she and Dr. Regina N. Bradley turn up and theorize how hip-hop reflects the contemporary American South; and Sum’n to Say, with Jason “Jah” Lee and Yoh Phillips, discussing notable events in Southern hip-hop and R&B. 

Matthew ShaerJuly 25, 11:30 am EDT

Matthew Shaer is a writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine and an Emerson Collective Fellow at New America. His reporting appears regularly in outlets such as the Atlantic, Harper’s, and GQ. He lives in Decatur with his family.