The Center For Fiction

The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship Program annually provides financial support, professional and creative development, personalized mentorship, and community engagement to nine early-career, New York City-based fiction writers.

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. 

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.

Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships

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. In any case, we recommend that you submit a sample that can be considered as a whole, even if it’s part of a larger work or made up of multiple shorter pieces.

Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships

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