How to Write a Profile

I've got some exciting news!

Happy September! I’ve got some exciting news to share: My online course “How to Write a Profile” is now live on Domestika! This self-paced course will teach you how to prep for an interview with a person you’re writing a profile on. I’ll walk you through the tools I use to stay organized and how I approach my research. You can see me brainstorm my questions, prepare for the interview and chat with the amazing Lo Harris in a brief interview!

Learn the basics and get inspired! By the end of the course, you’ll have an outline for your profile article.

If it’s not up your alley, please feel free to share with friends/family/students! I’ve got a discount code I’m only sharing with a select few, including YOU — my lovely subscribers.

Use code EVRECINOS-SUMMER for 5% off the course when you sign up.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming: 20+ opportunities for creatives, below! A special thank-you to my paid subscribers. Madison, my latest paid subscriber, thank you, thank you!

✨ September Deadlines

• 💭 Due 9/30: Sunspot lit: Flash, poetry, graphic novel or art submissions

• 💭 Due 9/30: Dry Tortugas National Park March 2023 Residency (all genres)

• 🎨 Due 9/30: Minnesota Center for Book Arts Proposals for Virtual Workshops

• ✍🏼 Due 9/30: University of Massachusetts Press Poetry/Creative Nonfiction/Fiction prizes

• 💭 Due 9/30: Acadia National Park Artist-in-Residence Program

👻 October Deadlines

• 🎨 Due 10/1: 2024 Eyebeam Fellowship Open Call

• ✍🏼 Due 10/1: The Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators

• 💭 Due 10/1: In Cahoots Residency

• 🎨 Due 10/1: Millay Arts Residencies (visual arts/composing/fiction/etc)

• 🎨 Due 10/2: 2024 Book Artist-in-Residence

• 🎨 Due 10/5: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 2023 Lightning Fund

• 💭 Due 10/16: 2024 Residency Program at the Dora Maar House (Mid-Career folks)

• ✍🏼 Due 10/15: Little, Brown Spark New Voices Award (in partnership with the Psychotherapy Networker)

• 💭 Due 10/16: Getty Library Research Grants (multiple areas)

• 🎨 Due 10/25: Loewe Foundation Craft Prize

• 👩🏽‍🎓 Due 10/26: The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

• ✍🏼 Due 10/30: Call for the Indigenous Art Writing Award

• 🎨 Due 10/31: Moab Arts Reuse Residency

🍂 November Deadlines

• 🎨 Due 11/13: Lucid Art Residency Program 2024

• ✍🏼 Due 11/30: Red Hen Press Quill (Queer) Prose Award

👀 Question Corner 👀

Love to see the answers from these! Last month’s was about what you read at the beach. Here are the results!

Fiction wins! If you’re looking for recommendations, some of my recent favorite fiction reads include:

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)

• Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie (read my review here)

• Monstrous by Jessica Lewis (out 10/3, just in time for Halloween!)

• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez