2026 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship for Underrepresented Writers

The 2026 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship for Underrepresented Writers is accepting applications from emerging and aspiring writers and literary artists. This year’s mentorship will be in poetry and is open to writers working in any poetic form, including mixed-genre and hybrid forms. The 2026 mentor will be poet Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch.

The 2026 mentorship will go to an aspiring writer who has a demonstrated interest in poetry or mixed-genre or hybrid forms. The selected writer will work with the mentor over the course of four months (February through May 2026) and participate in a public reading in early June 2026, alongside the other participants of the 2026 QWF Mentorship Program. Applicants should be prepared to dedicate at least 15 to 20 hours per week to their writing during that period. The selected writer will receive an $800 honorarium and a free one-year membership in the Quebec Writers Federation.

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Enquiries about submissions should be directed to the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Please always refer to their website for complete details and information. 

Please note, this call is run by the Quebec Writers’ Federation, not the Commonwealth Foundation.