Each year the Writers’ Room awards five fellowships that cover an entire year’s membership at the Room. Fellows are full community members and get access to the workspace and other benefits associated with full membership. In addition, fellows are entitled to a reduced rate membership for the year after their fellowship.
Fellows are expected to use The Room during their fellowship year and are expected to support The Room, assisting with on-line programs and in-person events such as the Boston Book Fair.
Applications for our 2023 Fellowships will be accepted in March 2023, with fellowships awarded in May.
Check out our 2022 Fellows!
Represented by Sterling Lord Literistic, Leslie V. Nguyen-Okwu is the author of the forthcoming book “American Hyphen” about balancing on the tightrope between Black America and Asian America as a first-generation Vietnamese Nigerian American. The award-winning journalist and professional speechwriter has worked with major media outlets and the world’s biggest companies, including the New York Times, BBC, National Geographic, The Economist, Harper’s Bazaar, Airbnb, and Google. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and is pursuing a Master’s degree at Harvard University. She has been awarded residencies, fellowships, and grants from Stanford University and Harvard University, the American Mandarin Society, the Asian American Journalist Association, Tin House, VONA, Kundiman, the Boston Writers’ Room, GrubStreet, and Catapult. Previously, Leslie worked as a technology reporter in Silicon Valley and a foreign correspondent in Asia.
Erin Moon White is a writer and artist from Detroit. Her work has appeared in anderbo, Blunderbuss Magazine, Mistress, Shampoo, The Oleander Review, and elsewhere, including a 2021 Mass Poetry Festival collection of ekphrastic poems. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and currently lives in Boston where she is a 2022-23 Gish Jen Fiction Fellow at the Writer’s Room.
Julian Iralu (she/her) is Naga-American from the Angami Meyase clan in Nagaland India. She grew up in Gallup, New Mexico. She is a 2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. Her work has generously been supported by The Naga American Foundation, GrubStreet and Boston Writers of Color. Her creative writing centers around family violence, the horror of the everyday, and the Naga diaspora.
Catherine Wong is a writer from Morristown, New Jersey. Their fiction has appeared in Split Lip, Bayou, Shenandoah, and The Cimarron Review. They are a graduate student in computer science and cognitive science at MIT.
Livia Meneghin (she/her) is the author of Honey in My Hair and GASHER reviews. She is the winner of Breakwater Review’s 2022 Peseroff Prize and The Academy of American Poets’ 2020 University Prize. Her writing has found homes in Solstice Lit, Entropy, Tinderbox, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA at Emerson, where she now teaches writing and works for EmersonWRITES.