Teachers & Writers Collaborative
T&W Fellowships offer support to talented early-career writers. The 2009–2010 Fellowship Program is made possible by generous support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In addition to time to work on their own writing projects, T&W Fellows receive:
Information about the 2010-2011 Fellowships will be available on this website in spring 2010.
CARLA CHING
Originally a poet from Los Angeles, Carla Ching moved to New York City to be an English teacher. She stumbled upon the pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and wrote and performed with the group from 1998–2001. Ching’s full-length plays include TBA (Second Generation/Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center) and Dirty (finalist for the 2006 Cherry Lane Theatre’s Mentor Project and the 2008 Ignition Festival at Victory Gardens, readings at IRT and Stamford Center for the Arts). Her short plays include Next Big Thing (Vampire Cowboys), The Further Adventures of Little Goth Girl (2g/Public Theater), Multicultural Education (commissioned by Ma-Yi Theater Company/Ohio Theater), Dissipating Heat (finalist for the 2005 Heideman Award from the Actors Theater of Louisville), and Closing Up Shop (Desipina and Company/Center Stage). Ching is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and The Women’s Project Lab 2008-2010. Ching received a 2008 Urban Artists Initiative fellowship and is a nominee for the 2009 Wasserstein Prize. She has worked as a teaching artist with The New Victory Theater, Lincoln Center Institute, TDF, The Public Theater, Young Playwrights, and American Place Theatre. Ching has a BA from Vassar College, an MA in English education from Teachers College at Columbia University, and an MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School.
CHARLES CONLEY
Charles Conley, born and raised on Long Island, is working on his first book, a collection of short stories. He was a 2008-2009 Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and has been a resident at the Blue Mountain Center, the Anderson Center, Can Serrat International Artist Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in the Southern Review, the Harvard Review, and Canadian Notes and Queries, and he was the recipient of a SASE/Jerome Grant for Emerging Writers in 2007. Conley has taught creative writing in Minnesota at the University of Minnesota, Hamline University, and the Goodhue County Adult Correctional Facility, and in Massachusetts at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter Junior High School. His BA in English literature is from Fairfield University, and he earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Minnesota.
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