This winter, we’re welcoming three new Writing Downtown fellows, Matt Farwell, Chris Edmonds, and Joshua Baldwin.
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.
Matt Farwell, December 2017
Matt Farwell is a writer. His work has appeared in the Rolling Stone, Playboy, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Men's Journal and other publications. Prior to writing he was an infantryman with the 10th Mountain Division and fought in Afghanistan. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas with his lovely cat Marie Claire.
About his project:
"American Cipher" a book from Penguin Press about the SGT Bowe Bergdahl case.
Chris Edmonds, February 2018
Chris Edmonds is a writer and editor living in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife and two young sons. His fiction and poems have appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, Pembroke Magazine, and elsewhere.
About his project:
A novel about a whale, coastal erosion, and isolation.
Joshua Baldwin, May 2018
Joshua Baldwin's dispatches from Las Vegas have appeared at The Paris Review Daily, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New York Times. He is the author of The Wilshire Sun, a novella, and his short fiction and poetry have appeared at n+1, The Brooklyn Rail, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Born and raised in New York City, he lives in Los Angeles.
About his project:
Joshua will be working on a book-length project that expands on the dispatches from Las Vegas he's written over the past two years — an impressionistic, walking chronicle that excavates the past, present, and future of the city.
Individual fellowships are made possible with support from the Amazon Literary Partnership, Submittable, the New York Public Library’s digital short story collection, and private donors. 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