The Emerging Writer Fellowships program is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that attracts an overwhelmingly gifted group of fantastic writers. We’d like to acknowledge – and introduce them to you – here:
FICTION
Rahad Abir
Ameena Goes to America
Isabelle Barany
God Will Protect Us
Kim Coleman Foote
Coleman Hill
Phedra Deonarine
The Douen King of the Mangrove and Other Stories
Opal Gayle
The Taste of Ashes
Angela F. Qian
The Girl with the Double Eyelids
Ashley Richardson
Far Cry From A Woman
Zachary Solomon
ZELNIK
Tyriek White
The Killing Fields
POETRY
Helene Achanzar
Lavender
J. Allen
Black Calamus: Poems
Moncho Alvarado
Greyhound Americans
Yasmine Ameli
My Body, the Conduit
Joshua Burton
Grace Engine
Bianca Garcia
Carne Cruda
Clemonce Heard
Greenwood
Frank Johnson
Literal Dope
Emily Lee Luan
I Watch the Boughs
Natasha Rao
Cusp of Blue
Sharanya Sharma
Prayers Shrieked from the Pistol’s Mouth
Daniella Toosie-Watson
Jesufrito
NONFICTION
Nayana Abeysinghe
Trincomalee: A Memoir
Danny Thanh Nguyen
After the Honeymoon Phase
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Joanna Acevedo, Charlieland
Elinam Agbo, Everyone Here Loves You
Chad B. Anderson, A History of Rivers
Timea Balogh, Ten Moons Under the Balaton
Jana Banin, The Ones Who Saw Him
Matthew Blasi, All the Way Back
Cora Bresciano, The Taste of Pomegranates: In Which Persephone Speaks Her Truth
Beatrice Bridglall, Vir
Pierce Clifford Brown, Edgeland
Javier Ernesto Castano, Blizzard: Freedom from Hell on the Chain
Imani Cezanne, On My Way
Wo Chan, Togetherness
India Choquette, Very Bright Green
Frankie Concepcion, Can You Stand to Stay
Cristina Correa, Sepulchritude
Margarita Cruz, The Dirt
Michael A. de Armas, Beautiful Girl, Ancient Thief
Dana De Greff, Everyday Mysticism
Joël Díaz, Strange Oxygen
Christa Drangle, Iris
Christina Drill, The Most Anonymous State and Other Stories
Jenzo DuQue, The Rest of Us
Susan Falco, Night World
KaToya Ellis Fleming, Finding Frank
Sarah Fuchs, Safari Njema
Melanie Futorian, RUB
Courtney C. Gambrell, My Ancestors’ Cry
Naiti Gámez, All Things Soft and Yielding
Roy Graham, Offshore
David Grandouiller, I Am Not the Same Everywhere
Leah Griesmann, Stripped
Audrey Hall, Dinosaur Adjacent: Poems
Neal Hammons, Masculine Touchstones of Twentieth-Century Cinema
Ashley Harris, For those that created science
Jaclyn Harte, Lay the Real Thing on Me
Dylan Evers Hawkins, Untitled
Rose Himber Howse, Muscadine Wine
David Hutcheson, Clinch
Shakarean Hutchinson, The Body Was There
Jared Jackson, Locals
Randy James, Suddenly, Summer Rain
Anita Olivia Koester, Imperfect Map of Griefland
Nancy Kotkin, Dances of Our Lives
Gabriel Louis, Proverbs
Amy Lyons, Marginalia and Other Stories
John Maher, Aeneas Flees Burning Troy
Meher Manda, Did Your Mother Teach You Anything?
Jane Marchant, An Extraordinarily Condensed Pocket Encyclopedia of Botany
Greg Marshall, Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, Cowboy Park
Forester McClatchey, The Sculptor and The Painter
Charles Ramsay McCrory, Mobile Home
Adam McCulloch, The Silver Trail
Caitlin McGill, Dogs Run Wild Here
Monique McIntosh, The Bank of Paradise
Margaret Meehan, A Beautiful Wife is Suddenly Dead
Paula Mirando, Gangbangers
Stephen Narain, Nirvana
Alejandro Nodarse, The Butcher’s Men
Kelsey Norris, This Here Place
Maddie Norris, The Wet Wound: An Elegy
Dinkinish O’Connor, Black Gums: Blood on the Vines
Theresa Okokon, The Okokon Family Orchestra
Jennifer Popa, Playthings
Stephanie Pushaw, Earthquake Weather
Malorie Reid, All the Things Unsaid
Chelli Riddiough, CODA
Christa Romanosky, Ways to Light the Water on Fire
Giovannai Rosa, The Puerto Rican House
Marina Rubin, Snuffbox
Rasheeda Saka, Still Breath
Julian Santiago, Amber Babylon
Samyak Shertok, No Rhododendron
Sandra Sidi, Finger of God
Macey Sidlasky, To See Her
Viccy Simon, Stepping Sideways
K.C. Sinclair, The Local Astronauts
Jeneé Skinner, Where the Clouds Known Our Names
Andrea Slodowicz, The Polish Wife
Natasha Soto, The Center of the World
Caitlin F. Thornbrugh, Riparian: Where Water Meets Land
Megan Walsh, Undercurrent
Mekiya Walters, ASHES, ASHES
Hannah Rose Webster, What Follows
Keagan Wheat, Viaticum
Hannah Whiteman, Rites of Want
Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others
The Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowships are supported by The Jorge M. Peréz Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation.