The inaugural Sonny Mehta Fellowships and Sonny Mehta Scholarships, which are funded by Gita Mehta, novelist, documentary filmmaker, and Sonny Mehta’s widow, and aim to give “writers the freedom and time and support they need to carry forward with their work,” are being awarded to four international students.
At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Bader Al-Awadi has been named Poetry Fellow and Waseem Rashid has been named Fiction Fellow. At the University of East Anglia, Zui Kumar-Reddy has been awarded a Scholarship in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) and Perla Kantarjian has been awarded a Scholarship in Creative Writing (Poetry).
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