Marian Treger Fellowship for Enduring Creativity

About the Fellowship

This VCCA fellowship is intended to support women artists (fiction writers, screenwriters, or visual artists) emerging in mid-life and beyond, whose creative paths, like Marian Treger’s, may have been detoured or hindered by chronic health conditions or disabilities. In addition to a two-week residency at VCCA, the fellowship will include a stipend to help support the artist financially in order to be able to take this time away from her daily life and focus fully on her creative project.

Marian Treger’s lifelong friends collaborated to create this fellowship in honor of Marian’s unstoppable multifaceted creativity.

Fellowship Details

Preference Given to: Female-identifying fiction writers, screenwriters, or visual artists, emerging in mid-life and beyond, whose creative paths may have been detoured or hindered by chronic health conditions or disabilities

Residencies Available: September 1 – December 31, 2026
Length of Fellowship: Two weeks
Stipend: $400

Application Opens: October 1, 2025
Application Deadline: January 15, 2026
Application Fee*: $30
Notification by: April 30, 2026

To be considered as a Marian Treger Fellow, complete the “Application for Mt. San Angelo Residencies, VCCA in Virginia – Fall 2026,” selecting your fellowship interest in Question 2.

* If the application fee presents a significant barrier to application, please write to vcca@vcca.com by January 10, 2026, to request an application fee waiver.

About Marian Treger

Marian was a writer, screenwriter, and visual artist whose profound health challenges interfered with her ability to fully immerse herself in the creative world. As an undergraduate, Marian was a passionate fiction writer who turned her talents to screenwriting in her 20s and won a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award while pursuing her master’s at UCLA. When she became sick with chronic fatigue syndrome she was unable to continue her career in screenwriting. Nevertheless, her creative spirit endured, finding new ways to manifest itself. As energy and health allowed, she cartooned, drew, made collages, became a jeweler, and wrote short fiction and memoirs.