Emerging Writer Fellowships: Past Fellows
The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship program offers grants, editorial mentorship, and other opportunities to early-career New York City-based practitioners who are at a critical moment in their development as fiction writers.
2020
2020
Our 2020 Emerging Writer Fellows were Raluca Albu, Rakin Azfar, Ian Denning, Grace Shuyi Liew, Ruth Mukwana, Claire Oleson, Camila Santos, Sasha von Oldershausen, and Rachel Wolff. All photos by Roque Nonini. These photos were provided as part of the Fellowships.
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2019
2019
Our 2019 Emerging Writer Fellows were Coryn Brown, Bryna Peebles Cofrin-Shaw, Jonathan Durbin, Cally Fiedorek, Caroline K. Fulford, Nusrat Hossain, Alanna Schubach, Sarah Wang, and Jeri Ziegler. All photos by Roque Nonini. These photos were provided as part of the Fellowships.
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2018
2018
Our 2018 Emerging Writer Fellows were Cara Blue Adams, Mariam Bazeed, Diane Chang, Sidik Fofana, Kim Coleman Foote, Chantal Johnson, Jeremy J. Kamps, Katherine Augusta Mayfield, and Kimarlee Nguyen.
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2017
2017
Our 2017 Emerging Writer Fellows were Amna Ahmad, Charlotte Crowe, Dana Czapnik, Erik Hoel, Andrew Mangan, Crystal Powell, Maud Streep, Alexandra Tanner, and Hubert Vigilla. All photos by Roque Nonini. These photos were provided as part of the Fellowships.
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2016
2016
Our 2016 Emerging Writer Fellows were Daniel DiStefano, Marie Holmes, Kay Iguh, Swati Khurana, Hafeez Lakhani, Danny Lorberbaum, Zulma Ortiz-Fuentes, Dan Sheehan, and Erin Somers. All photos by Roque Nonini. These photos were provided as part of the Fellowships.
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2015
2015
Our 2015 Emerging Writer Fellows were Naomi Feigelson Chase, Lisa Chen, Nicola DeRobertis-Theye, t’ai freedom ford, Anu Jindal, Stephen Langlois, Melissa Rivero, Samantha Storey, and Ruchika Tomar. All photos by misaki matsui. These photos were provided as part of the Fellowships.
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2014
2014
Our 2014 Emerging Writer Fellows were Lisa Armstrong, Cedrick Mendoza-Tolentino, Stephanie Miki Arndt, Dwyer Murphy, Zeeva Bukai, Belal Rafiq, Elysha Chang, Wil Weitzel, and Su-Yee Lin.
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2013
2013
Our 2013 Emerging Writer Fellows were Lexi Freiman, Patricia Park, Jane Rose Porter, Onnesha Roychoudhuri, Ricco Villanueva Siasoco, Bezalel Stern, Lauren Wilkinson, Brennen Wysong, and Courtney Zoffness.
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2012
2012
Our 2012 Emerging Writer Fellows were Leopoldine Core, Rosalie Knecht, Lisa Lee, Daniel Long, Manuel Martinez, Tracy O’Neill, Tim O’Sullivan, Jackie Reitzes, and Seamus Scanlon.
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2011
2011
Our 2011 Emerging Writer Fellows were Ted Bajek, Marie-Helene Bertino, Mitchell Jackson, Caleb Leisure, Geneviève Mathis, Elizabeth Shah-Hosseini, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, and James Yeh.
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