The Open City Editorial Fellowship application cycle is closed for this year. Check back in with us during winter 2025/2026 when we open it back up!
The Open City Editorial Fellowship is a new iteration of AAWW’s long-standing Open City Fellowship. In 2025, the program will focus on editorial and journalistic development, offering one emerging writer and editor a unique opportunity to contribute to Open City, a section of The Margins devoted to the life, senses, and politics of immigrant and Muslim communities in the New York tristate area.
Explore our Open City Fellowship alumni here.
Open City is one of the projects of The Margins, the online publication of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. It documents the pulse of metropolitan Asian America and Muslim America as it’s being lived right now.
Previous Open City Fellows have gone on to write and edit for MSNBC, the New Yorker, Curbed, the New York Times, TIME, Granta, and Al Jazeera America, among other outlets. Their works during their time as Fellows have been picked up by NPR, the Atlantic Cities, and the New York Times.