Call for Applications: AAWW 2021 Open City Fellowship

The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is now accepting applications for the 2021 Open City Fellowship.

The Open City Fellowship is a unique opportunity for emerging Asian American, Muslim and Arab writers to publish narrative nonfiction on the vibrant East Asian, South and Southeast Asian, Arab and West Asian, and North and East African communities of New York City.

The Fellowship is a nine-month stint for emerging writers of color to write about how Asian American and Muslim American lives are being lived in New York City. It is open to writers who are based in New York City, or can claim residency in the city but temporarily relocated due to the pandemic. It offers a $2,500 grant, skill-building workshops, and publishing opportunities to Fellows to write about the Asian American and Muslim American communities of New York City. The Fellowship will begin in January 2021 and end in September 2021.

A total of six Fellows will be selected for next year’s Open City Fellowship; three for the Neighborhoods/ Communities Fellowship and three for the Muslim Communities Fellowship.

The deadline for submission is on October 29, 2020.

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