AWrI 2025 Dates: July 12 – August 2
Applications are due by Friday, May 16 at 11:59PM EDT.
Public Lecture (speakers to be announced):
Sat July 19 – 12 PM EST
Sat July 26 – 12 PM EST
Sat August 2 – 12 PM EST
AWrI Cohort Schedule (All times listed are EST)
Saturday July 12 – 12-2PM Full cohort meeting and lecture about pitching
Sat July 19 – 11AM-12PM (Office hours with your editor), 12-1PM Public Lecture, 1-2PM Private Discussion
Sat July 26 – 11AM-12PM (Office hours with your editor), 12-1PM Public Lecture, 1-2PM Private Discussion
Sat August 2 – 11AM-12PM (Office hours with your editor), 12-1PM Public Lecture, 1-2PM Private Discussion
The Art Writing Incubator is an annual online writing intensive, which cultivates the next generation of critics and art writers through a series of workshops with leading culture writers and artists from around the world and one-on-one tutorials with Burnaway’s editors. Much of the program is funded by Critical Minded, which supports emerging writers of color, LGBTQ+ writers, and writers in rural communities.
The theme this year is ‘the personal’. The 2025 AWrI Your Voice is Critical will explore the role of subjectivity and personal perspective in art criticism. In doing so, we will acknowledge and honor that art writing is a means to share who you are as much as what you see.
Burnaway’s Arts Writing Incubator program has equipped participants with tools for pitching, writing statements, and producing considered criticism for the last eight years. The four-week program begins with a session hosted by Burnaway’s editorial masthead and subsequent weeks led by guest speakers. Over the course of the program, students will formally propose, develop, and complete a short-form writing project with one-on-one feedback from Burnaway’s editors. Following the completion of the program, these works will be compiled into a small chapbook circulated on Burnaway’s platform.
The 2025 Art Writing Incubator will be held virtually. Applications are open to anyone over the age of 18 with a connection to our coverage area – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and The Caribbean. The Art Writing Incubator intends to foster new writers and champion under-represented voices.
Tuition for the 2025 cycle is $250. Thanks to generous funding from our partners, Burnaway will consider additional needs-based support for selected participants that indicate.
We will be hosting a Q&A / info session on May 6 from 6:30-7:30. RSVP for the Zoom link here.
For program inquiries, please email [email protected].