Congratulations to Three Fellowship Winners!

We have selected Julie Bersani, Christina Cordano, and Maggie Dodson, three deserving winners of the $2500 Fellowship for Women Going Places, who will start their Basic Training on Thursday, April 15th.  Each will develop their project from idea through three drafts over the 10-week process.

—Julie Bersani is a graduate of NYU-Tisch who currently resides in Santa Monica, CA as the CEO of Black Poppy Productions, which specializes in identifying, developing, and producing uniquely told stories that value imagination and representation.

—Christina Cordano is a Los Angeles born and based writer who studied Television Writing at NYU’s Dramatic Department Program with honors and now works as an associate producer and arts consultant with the aspirations of writing in a TV Writer’s Room for goofy yet cutting edge comedies.

—Maggie Dodson is an accomplished and award-winning creative director, native Mainer, former food critic, terrible baker, excellent dancer, and writer living in Los Angeles with her husband, Nate and her dog, Walnut.

As always, the winners were evaluated on a combination of factors, including artistic background, the unique quality and perspective of their answers within their application responses and commentary, and the clarity of conceptual distinctions.  Once the larger field was narrowed down based on the caliber of applications, the winners were selected from the smaller group of highly ranked writers based on the viability and entertainment potential of the project ideas.  In effect, in each Fellowship category the overall quality of application answers will illustrate the writer’s potential to execute the writing quality of their project.

We’re very happy to support the creative goals of these three winners as they become active alumni in our Writers Boot Camp community!