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Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce the 2020 A Public Space Writing Fellows.
February 18, 2020
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce that applications will open on September 15 for the 2020 A Public Space Fellowships.
September 13, 2019
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce the 2019 A Public Space Fellows.
February 27, 2019
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce that applications will open on September 15 for the 2019 A Public Space Fellowships.
September 10, 2018
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce the 2018 A Public Space Fellows.
February 21, 2018
Writing Fellows
**The A Public Space Fellowships will be announced on our News page on Wednesday, February 21.**
We are pleased to announce that applications will open on September 15 for the 2018 Public Space Fellowships.
September 8, 2017
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce our 2017 Emerging Writer Fellows.
February 15, 2017
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce that applications will open on October 1 for our 2017 Emerging Writer Fellowships.
September 22, 2016
Writing Fellows
I began reading Elizabeth Gaffney’s short story with a wince of parental recognition. Pets are hell, and having to explain their traumatic demise to a small, tear-stained child usually leads to an existential crisis, followed by the dubious consolation of hunting down some equally doomed replacement.
June 2, 2016 by Sasha Saben Callaghan
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for our 2016 Emerging Writer Fellowships.
October 1, 2015
Writing Fellows
Whenever I visit Kolkata, India, the city of my birth, nostalgia follows me through the streets. I notice which of the older buildings have become new malls, which of the sweet shops known for their condensed milk squares have now been replaced by modern confectionaries or worse, a Baskin-Robbins, which of the old cow-claimed roads have been cleared to make room for apartments. My travel journals are full of these observations and the memories that come with them.
July 7, 2015 by Jai Chakrabarti
Writing Fellows
We are thrilled to announce our 2015 Emerging Writer Fellows: Jai Chakrabarti, Cornelius FitzPatrick, and Arinze Ifeakandu. We would also like to thank all of the writers who submitted manuscripts, the readers who spent the past eight weeks evaluating, debating, and championing applications, and the National Endowment for the Arts for its generous support of the program.
Supporting new writers has been an essential part of A Public Space since our debut issue—Leslie Jamison, Nam Le, and Jesmyn Ward published their first stories in the magazine—and with the Emerging Writer Fellowships, which are now in their second year, we look to continue this tradition by seeking out writers who have not yet published a book-length work but whose writing shows exceptional talent.
February 10, 2015
Writing Fellows
We are thrilled to announce our inaugural Emerging Writer Fellows: Vanessa Hutchinson, Mahreen Sohail, and April Wolfe. We would also like to thank all of the writers who submitted manuscripts, and the readers who spent the past eight weeks evaluating, debating and championing applications.
June 20, 2014