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
Addison Blu
Addison Blu is an L.A.-based writer and military veteran. He served in the elite Army Special Operations, with whom he deployed to combat in Afghanistan and conducted Psychological Operations. He was recently the Military Consultant for the Hulu series Paradise. Addison writes half-hour and hour TV, always grounded in character and humor.
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.