Hi. We're
@PeriplusCollect
, a new collective seeking to mentor promising BIPOC writers. We're taking applications now for the inaugural class, starting in 2021. Follow us here, and help us tell everyone!
Psst: The application for the 2024 Periplus Fellowship — offering mentorship and community to writers of color — is now open! 🥳 Learn more and apply by 10/27 at . There's no fee to apply. And please help spread the word: retweets and other sharing welcome!
It's Periplus application season! We just opened the application — due 10/24 — for our mentorship collective serving emerging writers of color. Please help us spread the word as far and wide as possible. We rely on word of mouth to find our Fellows.♥️
🧵Periplus — our mentorship collective serving writers of color — has announcements! Most important: The application for the 2022 class of Periplus Fellows is open! Deadline: 11/1. No application fee. Learn more and apply here: . And please share widely!
Hey, BIPOC writers, there's less than a month left to apply to be matched with one of us for a mentorship! If you've been planning to send an application, now's the time. (Also, please help us spread the word to emerging writers, including those who might not see this tweet.)
At
@PeriplusCollect
, we don't receive or spend money — we're all writers volunteering to mentor emerging writers of color. This year, we really want more applicants with little or no prior access to writing resources or community. But we need help! (1/x)
At Periplus, we mentor not just creative writers of color but journalists, critics & culture writers too — especially those who would like to pursue longform writing — and we want more applications from writers who fit that description! Deadline 10/24. Free, no references needed.
It's Periplus application season! We just opened the application — due 10/24 — for our mentorship collective serving emerging writers of color. Please help us spread the word as far and wide as possible. We rely on word of mouth to find our Fellows.♥️
It's our first-ever public event, open to all writers of color — a free panel about applying to and attending graduate school for creative writing! Please share widely and register here; spots are limited:
🧵Periplus — our mentorship collective serving writers of color — has announcements! Most important: The application for the 2022 class of Periplus Fellows is open! Deadline: 11/1. No application fee. Learn more and apply here: . And please share widely!
More than 1,400 BIPOC writers applied to Periplus this year; we can't wait to read your work. And if you're an experienced writer or editor interested in reading and assessing submissions, we could really use the help! Email us at peripluscollective
@gmail
.com or respond here.
please share widely including outside of this particular site (but also on it) — deadline is in a week and we currently have just 193 applications for 50-ish spots. That's about a 1 in 4 chance! get on it!
Psst: The application for the 2024 Periplus Fellowship — offering mentorship and community to writers of color — is now open! 🥳 Learn more and apply by 10/27 at . There's no fee to apply. And please help spread the word: retweets and other sharing welcome!
🚨🚨🚨This is it! If you're an emerging BIPOC creative writer or longform journalist who could use a mentor, apply to work with one of us. The deadline is TODAY, 12/15. 🚨🚨🚨
We love all the applications from accomplished writers. But we also really want to hear from writers who *haven't* earned creative-writing degrees, won writing awards, attended writing conferences, and so on. (2/x)
We're holding a free panel on graduate creative-writing programs for writers of color! Attendance is limited to 95, so be sure to get a ticket on Eventbrite in advance.
Psst: You can — and people do — attend graduate school for creative writing for free! Hear more about this and other MFA-related knowledge at our ~free~ panel for writers of color on August 18th. Registration required.
The deadline to apply is in ONE WEEK. Also, current Periplus Fellows are doing an independent AMA — you can read past Qs and candid As and post your own Qs using
#AskPeriplusFellows
. Please RT and spread the word; we want more applications! 👇👇👇
🧵Periplus — our mentorship collective serving writers of color — has announcements! Most important: The application for the 2022 class of Periplus Fellows is open! Deadline: 11/1. No application fee. Learn more and apply here: . And please share widely!
Psst. The deadline for BIPOC writers to apply for a mentor through
@PeriplusCollect
is in one week—12/15. Remember this is for emerging longform journalists as well as creative writers. Apply & spread the word widely!
If my count isn’t mistaken, the number of Periplus Fellows on this list outnumbers the mentors! Congratulations,
@ChisaraAsomugha
and
@writerchiclady
! ❤️
We are thrilled to announce our spring-summer 2023 Fellowship awardees!
Over the next six months, MacDowell will welcome 142 artists from 23 states, D.C., and 11 countries for residencies in one of 32 studios on our 450-acre campus in Peterborough, NH.
The deadline is today, and if you haven't started your application yet, don't worry — if you have a writing sample ready, it should take less than an hour (a half hour, even)!
It's Periplus application season! We just opened the application — due 10/24 — for our mentorship collective serving emerging writers of color. Please help us spread the word as far and wide as possible. We rely on word of mouth to find our Fellows.♥️
📢SAVE THE DATE! 📢
On April 21st, join us for reading of the Periplus Collective's Call & Response Anthology, open to the Periplus community and to the public. We'll also be celebrating the launch of the Call & Response website 🥳🥳🥳
RSVP Today:
Did you know that the Periplus Fellowship is not just for creative writers but for those getting into longform journalism, too? Apply by 10/27 to become part of this community of emerging writers of color and receive 1-on-1 mentorship from an established writer. ✨
Psst: The application for the 2024 Periplus Fellowship — offering mentorship and community to writers of color — is now open! 🥳 Learn more and apply by 10/27 at . There's no fee to apply. And please help spread the word: retweets and other sharing welcome!
We're looking for a handful of additional mentors for next year (with a particular focus on adding mentors of color). Taking recommendations for established writers with a track record of being generous members of the literary community. DM or email: peripluscollective
@gmail
.com.
If you know of well-connected people or organizations who can spread the word, can you share this with them or tell us about them so we can get in touch? Teachers, counselors, community college professors, local writing programs — and whatever else we're not thinking of! (4/x)
Congratulations to
@PeriplusCollect
mentors
@Lvandenberg
, Layli Long Soldier &
@cpamzhang
on winning American Academy of Arts & Letters Literature Awards! (And to the other 15 winners, too.) 🎉
um is it gauche to point out that these two 🔥 writers are BOTH Periplus Fellows??? CONGRATULATIONS S. ERIN AND NICOLE!!!! (Also: Be like S. Erin and Nicole and apply here: )
When we announced Periplus, we said we'd appoint an independent ombudsperson. We're delighted to announce that we've found that person: the lawyer, writer, and experienced mediator
@piaowens
. Welcome, Pia!
Last year we launched a fundraising campaign for Both/And,
@ElectricLit
’s groundbreaking essay series centering trans and gnc writers of color. It wraps up at the end of Pride Month! Check them out, and read the final three each Thursday this June!
We're making a list of resources for
@PeriplusCollect
Fellows — grants, editors who want their pitches/submissions, workshops, listservs, etc. What should we include? Also, if you're an editor who wants Fellows' pitches/submissions, DM us.
🧵Periplus — our mentorship collective serving writers of color — has announcements! Most important: The application for the 2022 class of Periplus Fellows is open! Deadline: 11/1. No application fee. Learn more and apply here: . And please share widely!
FOUR DAYS LEFT! If you have a sample of your writing ready to send, you should be able to fill out the application in 30 minutes or less. Please apply and spread the word — esp. to those who have had limited past access to writing resources and community.
It's Periplus application season! We just opened the application — due 10/24 — for our mentorship collective serving emerging writers of color. Please help us spread the word as far and wide as possible. We rely on word of mouth to find our Fellows.♥️
Ploughshares is delighted to congratulate Giovannai Rosa (
@giovarosawrites
) on winning the 2022 Emerging Writer's Contest for Poetry! Selected by Chen Chen, Rosa's poem "untitled sugar poem" will be published in the Winter 2022-23 Issue of Ploughshares.
“I kept reading [the acceptance letter] in my head like an NBA announcer would, complete with the microphone echo and the cheering crowd."
@Ferg_Williams
& other Periplus Fellows and mentors discuss the collective in the
@poetswritersinc
May/June issue!
TODAY is the last day to apply to be a Periplus Fellow. We mentor in many genres, including longform journalism and poetry (which tend to be underrepresented in applications) and are looking for promising emerging writers of color of all ages/backgrounds!
😭 introducing THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS,
@doubledaybooks
a memoir of ghosts, mestizo medicine men, and my mother who continued that lineage even though she was a woman and it was not allowed. Head over for ✨COVER REVEAL✨and ✨first look at The first ch✨over at
@EW
Congratulations to 2022 Periplus Fellow Zara Jamshed on NEITHER CREATED NOR DESTROYED, their new poetry collection with
@GameOverBooks
! Bay Area launch party 11/8 in Berkeley and virtual one 11/7 on the publisher's Facebook page.
We’re overjoyed to announce the results of our 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize. Finalists were selected by the editorial team at Joyland, and the winning stories were selected by
@AlexKleeman
.
In first place is Amy Zhang’s masterful story, “Slow Clap.”
Are you a journalist seeking help with your first magazine feature? Are you a fiction writer looking for insights about writing a first novel? Are you otherwise in need of a writing mentor? Emerging BIPOC writers, you have 15 days to apply: .
Meet the 2022 MacArthur Fellows: 25 exceptionally creative people who push the boundaries of their fields and challenge us to imagine new possibilities.
#MacFellow
.
Who inspires you?
Incredibly resonant and meaningful to have my work behind this cover, to be in such talented company, to write. Special thank you to
@Morgan_J_Talty
@papiwhathappen
for guiding this piece to fruition and
@MassReview
for being the home of my ✨first✨pub!! 💛💛
The community of
@PeriplusCollect
Fellows is super tight, but most have never met in person. Now, a group of them are raising funds to do so in March at a major writing conference, where they'd save expenses by sharing accommodations. The ask is modest. Please help if you can! 🙏
TODAY is the last day to apply to be a Periplus Fellow. We mentor in many genres, including longform journalism and poetry (which tend to be underrepresented in applications) and are looking for promising emerging writers of color of all ages/backgrounds!
The community of
@PeriplusCollect
Fellows is super tight, but most have never met in person. Now, a group of them are raising funds to do so in March at a major writing conference, where they'd save expenses by sharing accommodations. The ask is modest. Please help if you can! 🙏
Hey y'all, I'm running a fundraiser to help secure funds for Peripals whose attendance for the upcoming AWP may be in flux. It would mean so so much if you would be able to help in any way: whether that be loose change or just spreading the word!❤️
Hey, does anyone know who to reach at
@fsgbooks
about the FSG Fellowship? A couple of our fellows have had issues with the application and notification, and we — i.e., I,
@vauhinivara
— can’t figure out how to get through to someone. The application closes Monday.
The double thrill of reading this intense and moving piece by Periplus Fellow
@LailiGohartaj
— Laili's first publication — and knowing it was chosen and shepherded by Periplus Fellow (and
@HennepinReview
editor)
@HilalIsler
. 🥲
I am so honored that my essay "Summation" was chosen by
@HilalIsler
for
@HennepinReview
! This is my first published piece and seeing my words in this light and in such incredible company is absolutely surreal. Thank you 💜
this is finally out today & have read it twice & each time I’ve been overwhelmed by how much brilliance, clarity, grace, & wisdom are held in this one book
to read
@LaurenMarkham_
’s writing is to have a foretaste of living in the better world she imagines 🧡
Today on Joyland: "The Brief History of the Nasser Dogs" by
@NSAhmed99
, a moving story about life in Egypt; displacement and immigration; and the history of a single family and the various dogs that enter their lives over the course of many decades.
So excited about this — one of the first books from a
@PeriplusCollect
Fellow, and look at what a book it is. Get ready for this one from
@zaintkhalid
. 🎉🎉🎉
Here it is!! BROTHER ALIVE by
@zaintkhalid
, coming
@groveatlantic
August ’22. This book!! Zain is an amazing stylist and the plot is extraordinary. An exploration of Muslim American identity, sexuality, capitalism, and control, it’s vibrant with imagination and absolutely alive.
Your
@PeriplusCollect
fam is so proud and unsurprised and — especially — SO EXCITED to get to read this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yayyyyy Jenzo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was so busy today i didn’t have time to tell you how excited i am about
@BOMBmagazine
’s Summer Issue, which gives a home to my favorite story, “Village Pets”. this story holds all my grief+rage for the people of Colombia. please read it/dont look away:
Print and audio journalists: Apply to be a
@UCBerkeley
11th Hour Food & Farming Journalism Fellow! $10K to report a long form print or audio story on food, health, agriculture, climate change +. Deadline 3/15.
@WritersofColor
@POCinAudio
@NABJ
@NAHJ
We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Fresh Voices Fellowship! Congratulations to the finalists:
Ash Ford
Belgia Jong
Sara Montijo
Daniel Ogba
Pegah Ouji
Zen Ren
Shakeema Smalls
Nicole Zhu
And thank you to everyone who submitted!
so...
@NifMuhammad
liked my book enough that he chose it as the 2022 Megaphone Prize winner. And that means... I'm publishing a book!!!! Thank you
@RadixMedia
for believing in my work.
Ecstatic to have this poem + accompanying collage work from my manuscript-in-progress in
@theoffingmag
! I’m circling gender, masculinity, migration, inheritance, 🇵🇷, + more. So much gratitude to
@BixGabriel
and the whole team!
Excited to announce my second book, which exists because JK Rowling broke my heart. She doesn't own magic; we all do. Can't wait to introduce you to Wilder, Quibble, Artemis and Mary Margaret, all of whom are trans and who super don't go to magic school, in March 2025.
👋🏽 Youve probably never heard of me, but Im a gatecrasher. My whole life, Ive hoped to fulfill a dream & today I get to share it: My story “The Rest of Us” was chosen for The Best American Short Stories 2021! Beyond thrilled! & Im coming for those gates 💪🏽
The interest in
@PeriplusCollect
has been tremendous. Thanks, potential mentees, for all your thoughtful questions—we've updated the FAQ with a bunch of them!
“They’re real cool, you know? Their art of snatching / prey from unpaved streets. Cruising stolen skin / to Prospect, where our seven plant jazz in.” --
@AnesAhmed99
On April 21, join us for the Call & Response Reading & Website launch. Register now~
"Sometimes, in the night, before his death and especially after, she thought about everything she would say to her father given the chance." —from 'Blue Smoke & Running Elk' by Autumn Fourkiller
"Over 1400 submissions, 55 available spots, and I earned one of them. My mind is still blown. My acceptance into this program has been surreal, not just because I get to learn from the amazing Natashia Deon, but also because of what it means to me as a writer." —
@Ferg_Williams
🥀 Last year I wrote a short story about a dominicana and the haunted women in her family. That story is in
@HPalabritas
’ new issue, out now. 🥺 Thank you PALABRITAS for publishing my words! I’m thrilled to hold space with other writers. The cover is also stunning 😍
#fiction
"I am very excited to be a part of this program. As an up-and-coming writer, in a pandemic, I was searching for ways to still build community in the writing world. I look forward to being able to do that with Periplus Collective." —
@imcobydillon