Inaugural Sonny Mehta Fellows and Scholars Announced

The recipients of the first annual Sonny Mehta Fellowships and Sonny Mehta Scholarships have been announced. Bader Al-Awadi and Waseem Rashid of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop have been named poetry fellow and fiction fellow, respectively. Zui Kumar-Reddy and Perla Kantarjian of the University of East Anglia have been awarded scholarships in creative writing for prose fiction and poetry, respectively. 

The Mehta Fellowships and Scholarships, funded by an endowment from novelist and documentary Gita Mehta, give preference to applicants from the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and North Africa.

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