Haymarket Books, Mellon Foundation Announce Inaugural Writing Freedom Fellows

Feb 13, 2024

Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation have announced the inaugural cohort for the Writing Freedom Fellowship, a program to support writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry who have been impacted by the criminal legal system.  

The 20 inaugural fellows were selected with guidance from an advisory board comprising Lawrence Bartley, Mahogany L. Brown, Natalie Diaz, Tayari Jones, Rachel Kushner, Romarilyn Ralston, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Christopher Soto, as well as a panel of anonymous readers and nominators. Through the fellowship, writers will receive professional development and mentorship support, opportunities for shared learning, and a monetary award.

This year's fellows are as follows:

  • C. Fausto Cabrera
  • Zeke Caligiuri
  • Starr Davis
  • Stefani Echeverría-Fenn
  • Dee Farmer
  • Victoria Newton Ford
  • Keeonna Harris
  • Kwaneta Harris
  • Kenneth Hartman
  • Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
  • Quntos KunQuest
  • Ken Lamberton
  • John J. Lennon
  • Arthur Longworth
  • Ian Manuel
  • Ahmed Naji
  • Katie Schmid
  • Michele Scott
  • Crystal Wilkinson
  • Stevie Wilson

 

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