Deadline: December 30, 2021. Open to Black women and to Black gender expansive writers. Straw Dog Writers Guild, has announced that it is now accepting applications for its Emerging Writer Fellowship. The fellowship will grant an emerging writer of fiction a $3000 stipend and other professional benefits for a fullMore
Amina Jordan-Mendez is a poet, spoken word artist, and educator from Western Massachusetts. They are the 2020-21 Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writers Fellow and the inaugural recipient of this fellowship. Speaking to Valley of Writers about Amina’s selection, Fellowship founder, Nicole M. Young said, “There’s a unique rawness toMore
At the beginning of June, Straw Dog Writers Guild officially launched its Emerging Writers Fellowship with an online event. The inaugural recipient of the fellowship, Amina Jordan-Mendez beamed as she was introduced and thanked everyone involved with setting up the fellowship. She went on to read some of her workMore