Center for Fiction Announces 2021 Emerging Writer Fellows
The Center for Fiction has announced the recipients of the 2021 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships. The fellows are Joshua Borja, Gina Chung, Caleb Gayle, Senny George, Jared Jackson, Jen Lue, Mary Wang, Katie Yee, and Na Zhong. The fellows were selected from a of 530 applicants by judges Nicola DeRobertis-Theye, Sidik Fofana, and Erin Somers.
The Emerging Writer Fellowship, now in its tenth year, is open to all early-career writers residing within the five boroughs of New York City. Along with a $5,000 grant and studio space at The Center for Fiction’s physical location in downtown Brooklyn, the fellowship recipients work closely with an experienced editor to shape first books for submission, attend virtual group dinners with notable agents, editors, and published writers, and take part in two public readings. In addition, their fiction is included in an anthology that is distributed to agents and editors.