Several samples of the applicant's work submitted electronically as an attachment or link to a website. The Committee is particularly interested in seeing recent work.

Novelists should submit no more than 100 pages of one novel (and will be contacted for more if necessary); short-story writers no more than five short stories, limited to 100 pages in total; poets no more than twenty-five poems; playwrights no more than one long or two short plays, up to 100 pages in total.

Visual artists should submit up to twenty images, which may be in the form of jpeg’s or a link. It is strongly suggested that views of sculpture and installation art be submitted as a link.

Filmmakers should submit

a) a complete screenplay.

or B) a director's reel (these should be no longer than 10 minutes)

Playwrights or Theater Makers should submit a full-length work not to exceed 100 pages.

Choreographers should submit via a link examples of two works which have been created within the past 5 years and which do not exceed 30 minutes in total.

Composers should submit no more than five works, up to thirty minutes of music in total, both in score and recordings. Music scores may be submitted in hard copy, and should be mailed to Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave., Box 122, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604 The Committee will return musical scores submitted in hard copy only if requested by the applicant and cannot be held responsible for valuable properties. Please include specific instructions if the return address is different from the one on the application. Materials will be destroyed after 3 years.

Other Creative Artists (fields that do not explicitly fit into the above categories) should submit materials that demonstrate the creative aspect of the work to be evaluated. Applicants should use their judgement based on the criteria set forth above in terms of sample limits keeping in mind that the committee is reviewing many applications and expects submissions that are of reasonable length and/or size.