A Reading with The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2022-2023 Emerging Writer Fellows

Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 24, 2023

The Center for Fiction
& Livestreamed

In-person attendees will be admitted on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration does not guarantee entry. All registrants will receive a link to livestream the event.

The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2022-2023 Emerging Writer Fellows come together for their first joint reading to share their published writing and works in progress, hosted by Randy Winston, Director of Writing Programs. This year’s fellows are Sara Aboulafia, Natalie Adler, Han Chang, JP Infante, Diana Kole, Emmanuel Lachaud, Sabrina Helen Li, Juliana Roth, and Jiaming Tang.

The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships annually provide a diverse group of nine early-career, New York City-based writers with grants; editorial mentorships; monthly dinners with eminent editors, agents, and authors; access to The Center’s Writers Studio; a Master Class on Performance and Public Reading sponsored by Audible; two public readings in The Center’s performance space; and ongoing support in establishing their literary career.

A total of 145 donors from the literary community contributed to the Susan Kamil endowment, including cornerstone founding gifts from Penguin Random House and The Karpfinger Agency. The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships also receive generous annual support from the Jerome Foundation, the Amazon Literary Partnership, Audible, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnerships with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Featuring

Sara Aboulafia

Sara Aboulafia

Sara Aboulafia is a multi-disciplinary writer, artist, and comic. She is interested in uncovering intersectional relationships between language, sound, idea, and story. Her writing has appeared in Slackjaw, Points in Case, and Greener Pastures. She has performed at venues including Kishka Gallery in White River Junction, VT and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in NYC. She studied sketch writing, comedy, and improv with Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) and The Second City.
Natalie Adler

Natalie Adler

Natalie Adler is writing a novel about gay ghosts. She received her MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and her PhD in Comparative Literature from Brown University. She works as an editor at Lux magazine and a lecturer at Columbia University. Her essays have appeared in LitHub, BOMB, Electric Literature, Catapult, Autostraddle, and more.
Han Chang

Han Chang

Han Chang is a writer and designer. His work is in Southeast Review and World Literature Today.
JP Infante

JP Infante

JP Infante is an educator, writer and Borough of Manhattan Community College alum. He is the winner of PEN’s Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and Thirty West’s Chapbook contest. His writing has appeared in Kweli, The Poetry Project, Rigorous, A Gathering of the Tribes, and elsewhere. He has been awarded scholarships and fellowships from the NY State Writers Institute, PEN America and The Center for Fiction. He holds an MFA from The New School.
Diana Kole

Diana Kole

Diana Kole is a writer from New England living in New York. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, X-R-A-Y, and No Contact, among others. She holds an MS in narrative medicine from Columbia and a BA in comparative literature from NYU, where she received a Tory Dent scholarship in creative writing. She is at work on a novel about manipulation, illness, and desire.
Emmanuel Lachaud

Emmanuel Lachaud

Emmanuel Lachaud is a Brooklyn-born historian, artist, and educator interested in a wide-array of ways humans have told stories. From the moment he learned that history was in fact a narrative as a masters student at City College of New York (CCNY), he has reckoned with the crossroads of truth, perception, and storytelling. In May 2021, he graduated with a Ph.D. in history from Yale University. Since then, he has assumed a position as an assistant professor at CCNY teaching Afro-Latinx and Afro-Caribbean history and culture. Lachaud has likewise run an archival internship at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library funded by the NEH teaching both museum studies and archival paleography. Lachaud’s nonfiction work currently focuses on the nineteenth-century Atlantic and the meaning of “freedom” in postslavery societies in the Caribbean. But it has always been stimulated by a deeper desire to learn a way to tell a new story for the Caribbean—one less obsessed with doom and barebone survival and more fixated on the stories of how people lived, loved, and thrived in a world they knew was against them.
Sabrina Helen Li

Sabrina Helen Li

Sabrina Helen Li is a writer and teacher from New Jersey. She was a 2022 Iowa Arts Fellow in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and her writing has been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Threepenny Review, the Boston Review, and elsewhere.
Juliana Roth

Juliana Roth

Juliana Roth was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction and is currently seeking a home for her novel and collection of short stories. Her writing appears in the Breakwater Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Irish Pages, and Entropy as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing. Currently, she teaches writing at NYU and writes the newsletter Drawing Animals (subscribe here) featuring essays, interviews, doodles, and podcast episodes celebrating our interconnection with nonhuman animal life.
Jiaming Tang

Jiaming Tang

Jiaming Tang is a queer immigrant writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an MFA from The University of Alabama and his writing has appeared in such publications as AGNI, LitHub, Joyland magazine, the Masters Review, Epiphany Literary Magazine (where he won a “Breakout 8” Writer’s Award), and elsewhere.