We’re welcoming two new Writing Downtown fellows, both of whom focus on sci-fi fiction.
Fellows will spend a month in the vibrant heart of downtown Las Vegas, engaging with and becoming a part of the city’s thriving arts scene. The fellowship is designed to give talented writers and other creatives the space, time, and freedom to work on their longform projects, and the bibliophilic joy of living in a fully furnished apartment near Las Vegas’ literary hub, The Writer’s Block bookstore.
Special thanks again to the Amazon Literary Partnership, Submittable, the New York Public Library, and private donors for helping bring these fellowships to life.
Dominica Phetteplace, July 2018
Dominica Phetteplace writes poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared in Asimov's, Zyzzyva, Clarkesworld and Lightspeed. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State University.
About her project: Domonica is working on a series of short stories set in the near-future Southwest. The world is called Robot Country.
Regina Kanyu Wang, January 2019
Born in 1990, Regina Kanyu Wang is a bilingual writer from Shanghai, graduate of Fudan University’s MFA program, member of Shanghai Writers’ Association, Shanghai Popular Science Writers’ Association and World Chinese Science Fiction Association. She has been invited as a guest of Shanghai-Taipei Literary camp, Melon HK, Shanghai International Literary Week and Euro-Asia Economic Forum. Her short story, “Back to Myan,” won the SF Comet international short story competition in Feb, 2015. Her novella, “Of Cloud and Mist” won the Silver Award for Best Novella and Golden Award for Best Film Adaptation of Xingyun Award for Global Chinese SF 2016. Her stories and articles can be found in Mengya, Science Fiction World, Southern People Weekly, ELLEMEN, UNITAS a literary monthly, Mithila Review, Galaxy’s Edge, Clarkesworld and etc. She has published a science fiction story collection and a non-fiction book on food.
About her project: Regina will be working on her second short story collection, The Seafood Restaurant and others. It will be a series of speculative fiction trying to explore intercultural communication, identity recognition, relationship between human beings and Others in a near future setting. Apart from finishing up the last stories of the collection in Chinese, she will also translate some of her own stories in the collection into English.
If your organization would like to partner with Plympton to sponsor a fellowship, please reach out to writingdowntown@plympton.com.
To find out even more, visit http://www.writingdowntown.com