The Accelerate Fellowship is a six-month rewriting sprint that gives disabled film and television writers $40,000 in funding and bespoke mentorship to develop a spec script to market. Through writers groups, one-on-one mentorship, guidance from the Inevitable Foundation staff, and access to leading film and television writers, the program offers disabled writers everything they need to get their script ready to take to market. This year’s program will also encourage nuanced disability representation in the projects themselves. Application period: Winter More info

The Warner Bros. Discovery Access Writers Program provides a pathway for writers who face inherent barriers entering the episodic television writing space. Such barriers can be due to, but not limited to, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, veterans status, socio-economic status or any other unintended barriers. Selected writers will undergo an extensive creative and business curriculum before being put up for staffing opportunities across WBD. Application period: Summer More info

An empowering program aimed at nurturing new voices in television, this initiative provides emerging writers the opportunity to refine their skills and develop original spec scripts with hands-on guidance from top-tier mentors, executives, and experienced writers. Application period: Summer More info

The Sundance Institute Episodic Lab is a six-day program that offers writers the opportunity to workshop a pilot script, while developing their writing. Working with accomplished showrunners, Fellows will participate in one-on-one story meetings, craft workshops, and simulated writers’ rooms. Together, these meetings provide an elevated creative strategy for artists to advance their projects. Application period: Summer More info

The Sundance Institute Labs are a series of intensive, mentor-driven workshops operated by the nonprofit Sundance Institute. They provide emerging independent filmmakers and storytellers with creative support to develop projects across film, episodic, and new media formats. The labs are known for nurturing distinctive voices and shaping the global independent film landscape. Application period: Spring More info

Founded and co-chaired by Emmy Award-winning Writer, Creator and Showrunner Leo Chu (Disney’s Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion) and veteran film and TV executive and producer Steve Tao (Previously at The CW, ABC, & Bad Robot), the CAPE New Writers Fellowship is one of few writing programs in Hollywood created by a creative and an executive. This immersive program equips each writer with the practical and business knowledge they need to succeed as a professional in the entertainment industry. Having one of the highest track records of success in the industry, the CAPE…