Applications are now open for Just Buffalo Literary Center s poetry fellowship, judged in 2024 by Megan Fernandes. The award, which is open to adult poets of all ages and career stages, includes a $2,500 honorarium; a month-long residency in Buffalo in August 2024; and the opportunity to perform as a featured reader alongside Fernandes at Just Buffalo s acclaimed Silo City Reading Series.
Megan Fernandes is a South Asian American writer living in New York City. She was born in Canada and moved to the Philadelphia area when she was seven. Her family are East African Goans. Fernandes has work forthcoming or published or in The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Rattle, Pank, The Common, Guernica, the