DEADLINE: 11:59 p.m. ET Wednesday, September 3, 2025
AANM Writing Fellows – Application
In-person at the Arab American National Museum
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AANM invites Dearborn/Detroit-area high school students to apply for the AANM Writing Fellows program, a creative writing fellowship opportunity. Applications are due by September 3, 2025. Up to 15 students will be selected for the program. No creative writing experience is necessary!
AANM Writing Fellows is a 2-month long program led by AANM focusing on poetry and creative nonfiction centered on land and nature. Sessions will be in person at AANM on Thursdays, 4-6:30 p.m. from October 2 to November 20. The program will provide students with opportunities for self-expression, representation, agency, and collaboration with peers. Apply today!
What you can expect from AANM Writing Fellows
- A creative writing program led by a team of professional writers from metro Detroit
- Opportunities to build community with other youth writers
- Learn different ways to make art about/into the future through your own unique lens
- Ability to connect and learn from additional renowned national/international writers
- Furthering your connection with nature and the land around you.
- Development of enhanced performance and public speaking skills via a public performance/live reading
- Your work published in an anthology of work by all of the AANM Writing Fellows
- A Certificate of Completion and a $250 gift card upon full completion of the program
- A professional headshot (photo of yourself!)
- A great addition to your resume
Expectations of Participants:
- Attend each of the sessions from October to November 2025
- Show up to each session on time
- Engage in the activities for each session
- Write and express your truth (and fictions), and be open to learning new ways to expand them and get them on the page and beyond
- Provide your best completed writing (with the help of teaching artists) for the final AANM Writing Fellows project
- Attend and present at a culminating public event at AANM in November 2025
- Share feedback with other youth participants to sharpen each other’s craft
- Share feedback with facilitators to ensure that programming can be improved
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