The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships 2022

The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships offer 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.

• Table of Content
• About The Center for Fiction
• The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships
• Aim and Benefits of The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships
• Requirements for The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About The Center for Fiction

The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships

Aim and Benefits of The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships

During the one-year Fellowship period, grantees receive:

• A grant of $5,000
• The opportunity to have their manuscript revised and critiqued by an experienced editor
• Access to write in our Writers Studio
• The opportunity to meet with editors, authors, and agents who represent new writers at monthly dinners
• Two public readings as part of our annual program of events
• A professional headshot for personal publicity use
• Inclusion in an anthology distributed to industry professionals
• Tickets to our First Novel Fête and/or Annual Awards Benefit
• Complimentary admission to all Center events
• A 25% discount on writing workshops at the Center
• A workshop on reading as performance, conducted by Audible

Requirements for The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships Qualification

Applicants must be current residents of one of the five boroughs and must remain in New York City for the entire year of the fellowship. Students in degree-granting programs are not eligible to apply. This program supports emerging writers whose work shows promise of excellence. Applicants can be of any age, but must be in the early stages of their careers as fiction writers and will not have had the support needed to achieve major recognition for their work. We define “emerging writer” as someone who has not yet had a novel or short story collection published by either a major or independent publisher, and who is also not currently under contract to a publisher for a work of fiction. Eligible applicants may have had stories or novel excerpts published in magazines, literary journals or online, but this is not a requirement. If at any point during the judging process an applicant signs a contract for publication or accepts an offer to study in a degree-granting program, he or she must alert us immediately to have the application pulled from consideration.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Applications are due via our online Submission Manager by 11:59PM ET on May 30, 2022. There is no application fee. Please follow the instructions carefully as incomplete applications will not be read:

Please submit a fiction writing sample, not to exceed 7,500 words, as a double-spaced Word document (.doc or .docx). The submission must include page numbers. The writing sample may be either a novel excerpt or one complete short story. If you write primarily “flash fiction” or “short shorts” (1,000 words or less) you are permitted to submit multiple stories as long as the total word count does not exceed the previously stated limit. Please do not include any personal or identifying information on your writing sample. Writing samples containing this information will not be read.

For more details, visit The Center for Fiction website.