Grant on narrative Journalism

A grant to participate in a workshop on "Narrative journalism" will be awarded by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE) in coordination with the Foundation for the New Iberoamerican Journalism (FNPI).

This workshop, the second one of the literature and journalism series, in memory of Eligio García Márquez, will be taught this coming December 16-20 in Cartagenas de India, Colombia.

Registration deadline is Saturday, November 30.

A selection committee will be picking candidates among those who submit the following requirements through the online form:

The writing of a maximum 800-word (two-page) autobiography describing his/her journalistic experience and whatever prompted him/her to participate in the workshop, and

A letter of recommendation from the mass media where candidate is currently working for o has published any work for the past six months. Candidate need not be an employee under contract.

Applications may only be submitted online. Air-mailed or faxed applications will be refused. No application outside this mechanism will be accepted.

The list of selected candidates will be published online on FNPI web page, on Tuesday, December 3, 2002.

The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development will cover air fare and tuition. By contrast, FNPIU will cover lodging at a hotel in Cartagena.

This workshop will be taught by journalist and novelist Francisco Goldman, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1954, but was raised in Massachusetts and in Guatemala City.

At present, Goldman lives in New York and Mexico, and writes for magazines, including, without limitation, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Harpers.

One of his most read news articles was "Murder Comes for the Bishop," published in the New Yorker in March 1999 on the murder of Guatemalan Bishop, Juan Gereardi.

He has also authored two novels: "The Longest Night of White Chickens," which received a price for the first fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and served as basis for the script of the movie "Armed Men." His second novel is "Ordinary Seaman," a finalist of the PEN/Faulkner Award.

SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, November 26, 2002