The Margins Fellowship shapes an environment in which emerging writers can generate new, original work, build connections, and engage in dialogue with a community of writer peers. Coming into the fellowship as part of a cohort has given past AAWW Fellows invaluable support, friendship, and a literary community that continues to shape their writing careers.
The application for the 2025 Margins Fellowship is now available through submittable!
Explore our Margins Fellowship alums here.
Through the Margins Fellowship, the AAWW offers emerging writers concrete resources that they can take advantage of, such as access to workshops and trainings, publication opportunities, and programming opportunities in our event space. We give our Fellows a chance to develop as curators, armed with the resources of a literary arts institution.
Margins Fellows have gone on to publish books and chapbooks with W.W. Norton, One World, Viking, Tin House, Ahsahta Press, Platypus Press, Nightboat, RADIX Media, and The Feminist Press; sign with agents at the Wylie Agency and Curtis Brown; publish their writing in Poetry, Granta, Longreads, LitHub, BOMB, and The New Yorker; and receive awards, fellowships, and residencies from Lambda Literary, Tin House, Kundiman, the Yale Series of Younger Poets, La Cité internationale des arts, the Center for Fiction, MacDowell, Believer Magazine, Submittable, and Yaddo.
Emerging writers of ALL AGES are eligible for the Margins Fellowship.
Fellowship Program
The Margins Fellowship is a year-long program. The 2024 fellowship year will run from January to December.
STIPEND: $5,000 honoraria, distributed in three parts over the fellowship year. Fellowship payment will require the completion of an IRS W-9 or W-8BEN form;
RESIDENCY: Fellows are awarded residency time at Millay Arts—an innovative seven-acre artists retreat space at the former house and gardens of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, NY;
WRITING SPACE: 24/7 access to AAWW’s space, when the space reopens. Given that time and space to write are rare in New York, the Margins Fellows will be given keys to the AAWW Reading Room and workspace;
PUBLICATION: Fellows are invited to publish work on our online magazine, The Margins;
MENTORSHIP: In the second half of the fellowship term, fellows are paired with an established writer who will meet with fellows either in-person or virtually at minimum four times during and after the fellowship year. Previous mentors have included Monica Youn, Rick Barot, Alexander Chee, Susan Choi, Carmen Maria Machado, and many more.
CAREER BUILDING: Fellows are offered access to private career meet-ups and meetings with editors, agents, and fellow writers;
GUIDANCE: AAWW Programs Manager and Coordinator will meet with Fellows’ monthly throughout the fellowship year to discuss career goals and how AAWW can help meet them;
FINAL READING: Fellows will take to the stage with their mentors for a final celebratory reading at the culmination of the fellowship year;
