The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, July 21–August 2, 2020, is located at The University of the South in Sewanee, TN and offers workshops in fiction, poetry, playwriting, and nonfiction. The program also includes an individual meeting with a faculty member, readings, lectures, and master classes.

The Conference is offering a Kundiman fellowship, open to all Asian American writers with at least one book in print by the time of the conference. Fellows are waived the $1800 cost to attend, which includes room and board, and are only responsible for their travel costs. Each fellow is asked to be an active member in workshop, give a 15-minute reading at Sewanee, and meet individually with five writers from their workshop for half hour manuscript consultations. Fellows also have an opportunity to teach a one-hour master class at Sewanee, for which they would receive a $500 honorarium.

This summer’s faculty includes fiction writers Chris Bachelder, Jamel Brinkley, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Adrianne Harun, Randall Kenan, Katie Kitamura, Jill McCorkle, Claire Messud, Jess Walter, and Stephanie Powell Watts; poets Erica Dawson, Mark Jarman, Marilyn Nelson, Carl Phillips, A. E. Stallings, and Monica Youn; nonfiction writersAlexander Chee, Amitava Kumar, Elena Passarello, and Aisha Sabatini Sloan; and playwrights Naomi Iizuka, Dan O’Brien, Liliana Padilla, and Lloyd Suh.

The deadline to apply has been extended to March 19, 2020 Midnight PT. Details on how to apply can be found here. Fellows must have books in print by the time of the Conference in order to apply and can’t have attended the Conference as a fellow before. Any writer interested in applying for a Kundiman fellowship should please note that they are applying as such in the first sentence of their statement of interest.