RENSSELAERVILLE — The Logan Nonfiction Program is currently accepting applications for its spring 2018 fellowship. Writers, documentary filmmakers, photographers, and multimedia reporters working on longform projects are invited to apply.

The program provides fellows with meals, workspace, professional advising, and lodging on the Carey Institute’s 100-acre historic estate in the Helderbergs.

The Logan Nonfiction Program seeks to strengthen democracy and contribute to an engaged and informed public by supporting fact-based reporting on social, economic, environmental, and political topics. Selected fellows assemble at the Institute for periods of five weeks to three months to work on books, articles, films, and multimedia pieces whose socially relevant subjects advance dialogue on the most pressing issues of the day.

The judging committee makes selection decisions based on the quality, relevance, and promise of applicants’ works as well as their professional experience. During their time as Logan Nonfiction fellows, alumni have produced pieces with subjects as diverse as the psychological aftermath of war; the ecological crisis occurring in the Great Lakes; the lives of a community of rag pickers on the largest garbage mountain in the world; the cultural life of Kabul; and elder abuse and justice in America.

Applications for the spring 2018 class are open through Oct. 15. Interested candidates may apply on the Carey Institute website. Questions should be directed to .