Thu Feb 18, 2021 12:54pm
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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
Shreya Ila Anasuya, Eleyna Sara Haroun, and FS Hurston are the 2020 recipients of the Otherwise Fellowship (formerly the Tiptree Fellowship). Each winner will receive a $500 grant, and work produced as a result of this support will be recognized and promoted by the Otherwise Award.
“The Otherwise Award celebrates works of speculative fiction that imagine new futures by exploring and expanding our understanding of gender roles. Through the Fellowship Program, the Award also encourages those who are striving to complete works, to imagine futures that might have been unimaginable when the Award began.”
Honorable mentions went to Timea Balogh, Wren Handman, Jasmine Moore, and Kailee Marie Pedersen. The selection committee was composed of Devonix, Betsy Lundsten, Martha Riva Palacio Obón, and Kiini Ibura Salaam.