The Brown Graduate Program in Literary Arts and the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies are currently seeking applications and nominations for their 2011 – 2012 International Writers Project Fellowship.

The IWP Fellowship is open to established creative writers (fiction writers, poets, or playwrights) who are persecuted in their home countries or who are actively prevented from pursuing free expression in their literary art. The fellowship covers the costs of relocation to the U.S. and the writer’s living expenses, as well as providing an office on the campus of Brown University for ten months.

The fellow will join a supportive community that includes faculty members and graduate students in Brown’s Program in Literary Arts and the Watson Institute for International Studies. Their fellowship will be accompanied by a series of lectures, readings and other events that highlight the artistic and political culture of the writer’s home country and address the global issues of human rights and free expression.

Writers interested in applying for the fellowship should send a case history, providing a publishing history and explaining their need, a writing sample and a resume to the Graduate Program in Literary Arts, Box 1923, Brown University, Providence, RI  02912. Alternatively they may email materials to iwp@brown.edu. Persons wishing to make the IWP aware of a writer in need, or wishing to nominate a candidate, should also contact the program as noted above. The IWP will be accepting applications until February 15, 2011.

More information about the IWP is available on the Literary Arts Program website, www.brown.edu/cw

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