The BLAC Creative Fellowship
A year of your work, documented as you do it.
One creator. One year. You keep doing your work, and BLAC documents it every week — then you choose who goes next.
The fellowship does not teach you to be a creator. It assumes you already are one, and fixes the thing most creators never get: a year of your work, documented properly, by an editorial team, while you are doing it rather than years after.
- 52 weeks
- 30–60 seconds weekly
- Fellow to be named
The fellow
To be named
Not yet published
No fellow has been chosen.
The first fellow has not been chosen. This page describes the fellowship as it will actually run, so that the person offered it can decide with the real terms in front of them.
No name, image, or work will appear here until a creator has accepted.
Who it is for
Someone already making the work. A musician, a photographer, a designer, a writer, a builder — the discipline is open. What is not open is the premise: you have a practice, it is ongoing, and it would stand up to being looked at once a week for a year.
You do not need an audience. You do not need to be early in your career, or late in it. Nothing about the selection is a measurement of reach.
The arrangement
How the year runs
- weeks
- 52
- weekly video
- 30–60s
- chapters
- 4
- dispatch a week
- 1
What BLAC does
- Publish every weekly dispatch under BLAC editorial standards — edited, captioned, accessible, and permanent.
- Provide real editorial support: an editor who reads your updates, writes the headlines and alt text, and handles the publishing.
- Build the archive as you go, so the portfolio grows week by week instead of being assembled at the end.
- Amplify the work through BLAC the way BLAC amplifies its own reporting.
- Leave the work itself alone. BLAC documents what you make; it does not commission, direct, or approve it.
What is asked
- A 30-to-60-second reflection each week for a year.
- Photographs when you have them.
- Writing if you want to write — genuinely optional.
- Keep doing your work. That is the whole of the rest of it.
The weekly reflection is 30–60 seconds long and filmed on your phone. Photographs are welcome any week you have them. Writing is optional every single week — the fellowship is complete without a word of it.
Structure
Four chapters
Chapter One opens when you begin
Chapter One
Weeks 1–13
Where you already are
The work as it currently stands, before anything is adjusted for being watched. This is the baseline the rest of the year is read against.
Opens with the first dispatch
Chapter Two
Weeks 14–26
The middle of the work
The stretch nobody documents: repetition, revision, the weeks that do not produce anything finished.
Ahead
Chapter Three
Weeks 27–39
Out in the world
Whatever you finish, show, or ship this year, and what actually happens after you do.
Ahead
Chapter Four
Weeks 40–52
The archive, and the handoff
Reading the year back — and choosing the creator who takes the fellowship next.
Ahead
Plainly
What this is, and is not
This is not influencer training
The fellowship teaches nothing about growing an audience, posting cadence, personal branding, or landing brand deals. There is no curriculum, no coaching, and no growth target. If what you want is an audience-building programme, this is the wrong thing and BLAC would rather say so now.
You are not making content for BLAC
The weekly video is a record of your week, not a post engineered to perform. BLAC has no view on whether it does numbers.
Your work stays yours
BLAC documents and publishes; it does not take ownership of the work, and it does not ask for exclusivity on where else you post.
No performance conditions
Nothing about the fellowship is contingent on reach, engagement, or output volume. A year of quiet weeks honestly documented is a completed fellowship.
What you keep
The portfolio builds itself
An archive, week by week
Each dispatch is published as it arrives and stays online in sequence. You are not assembling a portfolio at the end of the year — you are watching one accumulate while you work, edited and captioned to the same standard as everything else BLAC publishes.
Editorial support, not coaching
An editor reads what you send, writes the headline and the alt text, handles the publishing, and asks the questions an editor asks. Nobody advises you on your practice, your posting, or your positioning. The support is editorial and it stops there.
The handoff
And then you choose
At the end of the year, you choose who goes next
The fellowship is handed on by the fellow, not by BLAC. In the final chapter you name the creator who takes the next year, and BLAC backs your choice. That is the mechanism the whole programme is built around — it is how the fellowship stays accountable to creators rather than to whoever is running it.
Questions
Who to talk to
Fellowship representative and contact
Paul
Paul is who you talk to about the fellowship — questions, terms, timing. He is the programme contact, not the fellow.
Contact BLAC about the fellowshipGoes to the BLAC contact desk — a direct line has not been published.