FY24 Fellowship Panel Review - Literary Prose + Dramatic Writing

This is a recording of the FY24 Fellowship Panel Review for applicants of Literary Prose and Dramatic Writing. These panels were recorded on August 29, 2023. A list of all the public meetings can be found here: www.nvartscoun...
About our Panelists:
Dewain Farria
Dewaine Farria is the author of the novel Revolutions of All Colors (Syracuse University Press, November 2020). Tobias Wolff selected the novel as the winner of Syracuse University’s 2019 Veteran’s Writing contest. Dewaine’s short stories and essays have appeared in Literary Hub, the New York Times, Rumpus, the Southern Humanities Review, CRAFT, and the Daily Beast. He is a frequent contributor to War on the Rocks. His work has also appeared in the anthologies, Our Best War Stories: Prize-winning Poetry and Prose from the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Award (Middle West Press, October 2020) and Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li (A Public Space Books, September 2021). He has served as a contributing editor for the Maine Review and an instructor in the Voices From War Writing Workshop. As a U.S. Marine, Dewaine served in Jordan and Ukraine. Besides his stint in the military, Dewaine spent most of his professional life working for the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), with assignments in the North Caucasus, Kenya, Somalia, and Occupied Palestine. Dewaine was awarded UNDSS’s Bravery Award for his actions during an attack on a UN compound in Mogadishu in June 2013. He holds a BS from the University of the State of New York-Albany, an MA in International and Area Studies from the University of Oklahoma, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Dewaine has received fellowships from the National Security Education Program, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He presently lives in the Philippines with his wife, three children, two cats, and a dog.
Janalyn Quo
Janalyn Guo lives and writes in Philly these days. You can find her stories in Honey Lit, Quarterly West, The Rupture, Interfictions, Black Sun Lit, Denver Quarterly, Heavy Feather Review, Bat City Review, Tusculum Review, and other places. Our Colony Beyond the City of Ruins is her first book. In 2020, she received an NEA creative writing fellowship in prose.
Dave Phillip Mullins
David Philip Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below, a story collection, which won both the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the International Walter Scott Prize for Short Stories, and The Brightest Place in the World, a novel, which won the Nebraska Book Award. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Cimarron Review, Chicago Quaretly Review, Ecotone, Third Coast, Fiction, Folio, Post Road, Gulf Coast, and the anthology Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest. He has received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature from Yaddo, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, a First Place prize from the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, the Stanley Elkin Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, an Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature from the Nebraska Arts Council, and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He is a professor of English and the director of the creative-writing program at Creighton University.