She has written for the New York Times newsletter The Edit and penned the manifesto for Nike's 2020 Black History Month campaign. She has received a Genius Grant from OZY Media, as well as recognition from Scholastic Inc., YoungArts, the Glamour magazine College Women of the Year Awards, and the Webby Awards. Amanda has performed multiple commissioned poems for CBS This Morning and she has spoken at events and venues across the country, including the Library of Congress and Lincoln Center. Now her words have won her invitations to the Obama White House and to perform for Lin-Manuel Miranda, Al Gore, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, and others. She has written for the New York Times and has three books forthcoming with Penguin Random House.īorn and raised in Los Angeles, she began writing at only a few years of age. ![]() history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology. ![]() Please stay tuned for the next opportunity to apply.Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. Toronto Public Library invites applications from Canadian writers with extensive writing and literary experience to participate in our Writer in Residence program.Īpplications are not being accepted at this time. Email your submission to: Manuscripts will be accepted from Monday, May 8 to Friday, June 16, 2023. If this is a novel excerpt, please include a short summary of the novel: no more than one page - not included in the above 10-page limit. Include a cover page with your name, email and telephone number. Please ensure that science fiction writing submissions are double-spaced, 12pt Times New Roman, in Word or PDF format, a maximum of 10 pages, and contain page numbers. Only selected submissions will be contacted for a review. Meetings with the Writer in Residence are by appointment. The Writer in Residence meets with writers who submit novel excerpts and short stories to offer feedback and answer questions. Toronto Public Library’s Writer in Residence offers writers of science fiction/fantasy the opportunity to submit manuscripts for review and feedback. She grew up in Singapore, received her MFA from the University of Houston, and now lives with her family in Toronto. Her short-form fiction and culture writing has been published in Granta, The Nation, The Paris Review, Best Canadian Stories, the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Guernica, and others. She has taught creative writing for a decade and a half, to writers of every stripe, from graduate students to published authors to engineers to autoworkers, and at schools such as the University of Toronto, Sheridan College, and Flying Books, and in mentorship programs offered by Diaspora Dialogues, the University of Guelph, and The Writer’s Trust of Canada. Thea Lim is the author of An Ocean of Minutes, which has been translated into three languages, optioned for television, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and ALA Reading List for Science Fiction, and longlisted for Canada Reads.
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