The Attuned Writer Fellowship: And the winner is...
The results are in!
Three months after launching the inaugural Attuned Writer Fellowship, and after a judging process that was by turns fascinating, surprising, and genuinely inspiring, we have a winner!
To recap the prize: the winning applicant receives a salary of US$50,000 over the course of 12 months to start a Substack newsletter on Intrinsic Motivation and produce at least 2-3 full-length posts per week on the subject. The writer will also receive mentorship from our panel of industry experts and support in growing their readership from Attuned, with the ultimate aim of building a big enough subscriber base to transition from a free newsletter to a paid one, and thus become self-supporting, once the sponsorship ends.
The tasks we set as part of the application process were intentionally challenging, and yet we still received entries from every corner of the world, including Iran, Russia, Jamaica, and French Polynesia, as well as from all over Europe, Asia, and North America.
This made for some tough decisions for our judging panel:
Casey Wahl, founder & CEO of Attuned, and author of The Quiet Comeback
Rachel Richardson, former Head of Editorial at Snapchat and a two-time British Society of Magazine Editors ‘Editor of the Year’ winner
Lenny Rachitsky, author of the hugely popular Lenny’s Newsletter, which has more than 65,000 subscribers on Substack
Abid Rahman, International / Newsletter Editor at The Hollywood Reporter
Tania Rabesandratana Winner of the Attuned Writer Fellowship
In the end, however, one candidate shone through: Tania Rabesandratana.
Praised for her distinctive voice, breadth of ideas and, of course, her writing ability, Tania was unanimously chosen by all of the judges in the final round.
“I am proud and fortunate to win. The Fellowship feels like a loving push to stretch myself and befriend my entrepreneurial side. My ambition is to write a newsletter that is honest, meaningful and fun, and to learn a ton!”
says Tania, who is based in the Catalonia region of Spain.
Over the next month, Tania will take part in an intensive mentorship program that includes 1-on-1 sessions with all of the judges and ongoing support from the Attuned team, building to the launch of the newsletter on November 8th.
We’ll also be publishing Tania’s first newsletter on the Attuned blog, along with details on how to subscribe, so watch this space for more info!