Veterans Fellowship
TALENT PORTAL
With a strong emphasis on experiential learning, the fellowship’s mission is to provide educational resources, professional guidance, and career-building opportunities for Veterans Writing Project alumni who are on the threshold of breaking into the industry.
If you have any specific hiring needs, our staff will curate recommendations or facilitate introductions on your behalf. To make a request, email WGF’s Director of Community Programs Kira VandenBrande at kvandenbrande@wgfoundation.org.
In addition to the talent profiles linked below, WGF also crafts a dedicated lookbook featuring each graduating class. Click the links below to view the 2024 and 2025 Fellowship Lookbooks!
Annual Lookbooks
Alumni Profiles
Anthony Pittore
After funding film school at mob-run poker clubs, Anthony Pittore joined the Navy as a cryptologic linguist and later served as an intelligence analyst for the NSA. He left government work to become a writer/producer and military consultant, recently rewriting a feature for a Netflix producer and selling a series to a vertical-format prodco.
Christopher Harris
Christopher David Harris is a gay Air Force veteran from Virginia. A huge nerd, he writes quippy sci-fi, fantasy, and superhero stories that explore themes of transformational journeys, religious and family trauma, connection to adversity, and the power of claiming your truth, with an eye towards LGBTQIA+ inclusion and representation.