Application
Classes are coordinated via Discord. Please join the Ubergroup server and paste a query letter or CV in the Apply for Membership channel. Intakes are approximately every three months. Please check into the Waiting Room 2–4 weeks before the next advertised intake to answer follow up questions regarding your application.
If you are not familiar with how to use Discord, please visit the tutorial here. You will need to be able to join a server, navigate between text channels, find pinned messages, find your own @ mentions, join video calls, and control your microphone and camera to participate.
For deaf and hard of hearing participants we recommend Chrome auto-caption. If you are not familiar with how to use Google Docs, please visit the tutorial here and spend some time exploring the interface before applying. You will need to be able to share a link to your work with permissions set to “everyone with the link can comment” to participate.
If you do not yet qualify for the Ubergroup’s standard coursework, you will be asked to complete the preparatory course first and then reapply. We believe that success in any commercial fine art is 10% talent, 10% luck, and 80% showing up and putting in the work. We cannot control the first two, so we focus on the last and largest category. There is no application cost and no time limit; writers who need or wish to retake course levels may do so without penalty.
Students who we believe would be an asset to our professional network will be contacted directly upon successful completion of the course. Alumni network membership is by invitation only. Please do not contact us about this.
Additional FAQ and questions are available on our subreddit.