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The Brown Department of Literary Arts and Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies are seeking applications and nominations for the 2012 - 2013 International Writers Project Fellowship
The Brown Department of Literary Arts and Thomas J. Watson
Institute for International Studies are seeking applications and nominations
for the 2012 - 2013 International Writers Project Fellowship.
The fellowship provides institutional, intellectual, artistic and
social support to writers who face personal danger, oppression, and/or
threats to their livelihood in nations throughout the world. Each academic
year, the fellowship is granted to one writer who is unable to practice free
expression in his or her homeland. Deeply practical in nature and
intention, the academic-year fellowship covers the costs of relocation and
the writer¹s living expenses in the U.S., and also provides an office on the
campus of Brown University for ten months.
International Writers Project founder Robert Coover points out
that, while the Literary Arts Department at Brown has been providing
freedom-to-write fellowships since 1989 and has a long history of engagement
in freedom of expression issues, ³not in recent history has the basic
principle of free expression been under such worldwide threat as right now,
making fellowships like this one a top priority for any writing program or
university. Not only does the fellowship provide needed support and
sanctuary to an individual writer, it also signals a commitment to the
principle of freedom of expression and, through its association with
cultural programs, seeks to heighten awareness of that principle¹s
vulnerability and the need for international solidarity in its protection.²
The 2011 2012 IWP Fellow is Iranian poet Pegah Ahmadi. Previous IWP
Fellows have included Cambodian poet Kho Tararith, Nigerian fiction writer
and documentary filmmaker Dul Johnson, Burmese novelist Thida, Zimbabwean
novelist Chenjerai Hove, Iranian novelists Moniro Ravanipour, Shahryar
Mandanipour, and Shahrnush Parsipur, and Congolese playwright and novelist
Pierre Mumbere Mujomba.
The IWP Fellowship is open to established creative writers (fiction
writers, poets, or playwrights) who are persecuted in their home countries
or who are actively prevented from pursuing free expression in their
literary art. Writers interested in applying for the fellowship should send
a case history, providing publishing history and explaining need, a writing
sample (preferably in English), and a resume, to the Department of Literary
Arts, Box 1923, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, or they may email
materials to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Persons wishing to make the IWP aware of a
writer in need, or wishing to nominate a candidate, should also contact the
program as noted above. The IWP will accept applications until February
15, 2012. More information about the IWP is available on the Literary Arts
website, www.brown.edu/cw (click on IWP).
Institute for International Studies are seeking applications and nominations
for the 2012 - 2013 International Writers Project Fellowship.
The fellowship provides institutional, intellectual, artistic and
social support to writers who face personal danger, oppression, and/or
threats to their livelihood in nations throughout the world. Each academic
year, the fellowship is granted to one writer who is unable to practice free
expression in his or her homeland. Deeply practical in nature and
intention, the academic-year fellowship covers the costs of relocation and
the writer¹s living expenses in the U.S., and also provides an office on the
campus of Brown University for ten months.
International Writers Project founder Robert Coover points out
that, while the Literary Arts Department at Brown has been providing
freedom-to-write fellowships since 1989 and has a long history of engagement
in freedom of expression issues, ³not in recent history has the basic
principle of free expression been under such worldwide threat as right now,
making fellowships like this one a top priority for any writing program or
university. Not only does the fellowship provide needed support and
sanctuary to an individual writer, it also signals a commitment to the
principle of freedom of expression and, through its association with
cultural programs, seeks to heighten awareness of that principle¹s
vulnerability and the need for international solidarity in its protection.²
The 2011 2012 IWP Fellow is Iranian poet Pegah Ahmadi. Previous IWP
Fellows have included Cambodian poet Kho Tararith, Nigerian fiction writer
and documentary filmmaker Dul Johnson, Burmese novelist Thida, Zimbabwean
novelist Chenjerai Hove, Iranian novelists Moniro Ravanipour, Shahryar
Mandanipour, and Shahrnush Parsipur, and Congolese playwright and novelist
Pierre Mumbere Mujomba.
The IWP Fellowship is open to established creative writers (fiction
writers, poets, or playwrights) who are persecuted in their home countries
or who are actively prevented from pursuing free expression in their
literary art. Writers interested in applying for the fellowship should send
a case history, providing publishing history and explaining need, a writing
sample (preferably in English), and a resume, to the Department of Literary
Arts, Box 1923, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, or they may email
materials to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Persons wishing to make the IWP aware of a
writer in need, or wishing to nominate a candidate, should also contact the
program as noted above. The IWP will accept applications until February
15, 2012. More information about the IWP is available on the Literary Arts
website, www.brown.edu/cw (click on IWP).
