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The Otherwise Award has announced its latest class of fellowships for 2020: SF writer Shreya Ila Anasuya, filmmaker Eleyna Sara Haroun, and poet FS Hurston.
Typically, the award offers two such slots, but the organizers say that in light of the difficulties that 2020 presented, they’ve added an additional fellowship to this year’s class.
The fellowships are designed to support “emerging creators who are using speculative narrative, including visual, sound, and performance arts, to change the way we think about gender in its intersections with other systems of identity and power.”
The Fellowships are part of the Otherwise Awards (formerly known as the James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award), which was founded in 1991 which was designed to honor a work that best exemplifies our understanding of gender. The award renamed in 2019 following new discussions about the death of Alice Sheldon (who went by the name James Tiptree Jr.) and her hus