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She Who Has No Master(s) Mentorship Application

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She Who Has No Master(s) is initiating a creative writing mentorship program led by and designed for Vietnamese and SE Asian diasporic women and nonbinary writers. The centering of this perspective is important because in most educational settings the focus on subject matter and perspectives of women/nonbinary SE Asian diasporic women is marginal, if not totally unaddressed. In creating educational spaces that center those viewpoints, we create a nourishing space in which aspiring writers can see themselves, explore, and embrace their own particularities, and create more expansively. These mentorships will address both creative and professional aspects involved in the writing life. These offerings fulfill a dire contemporary need in our nation’s current environment for creative writing education.

The mentors for our inaugural 2022 mentorship program will be Diana Khoi Nguyen, Hoa Nguyen, Lily Hoang, and Vi Khi Nao.


If you are selected for a mentorship, you will receive 4 months of tuition-free mentorship, an extremely unique opportunity for mentees to work closely with distinguished, award-winning women writers of the Vietnamese diaspora. Our first cohort will engage 4 students and 4 mentors.


To apply, please register and pay the $25 application fee by February 28, 2022.


Then, send the following applications materials to [email protected] :

  • Statement of purpose / interest in this program [up to 500 words]:
    • What type of work have you made / wish to make / are interested in exploring?
    • Tell us what it means for you to be a diasporic writer or artist.
  • Creative resume/CV (indicating MFA and/or publishing history, if applicable)
  • WORK SAMPLE:
    • 10-20 pages of content total, in one or a mixture of genres (example: you may submit 10 pages of textual material + 10 min. of video or audio; or 15 pages of poetry + a 5-min. video; etc.)
    • open to any genre: poetry, prose (fiction, creative nonfiction), hybrid, multimedia, etc.
    • if supplying video or audio material, up to 10 min. total
    • if supplying text and/or image, must be formatted to the page (PDF file preferred), 10-20 pgs. Total
  • Each file should indicate your full name and the file subject. For example: 

“JaneNguyen_Statement”  “JaneNguyen_Resume”  “JaneNguyen_WorkSample”


To send us video, audio or other media files, please provide a work sample item sheet that includes links (i.e. Vimeo, YouTube) to where the material can be seen/heard. Using timecode, please indicate exactly which portion of the media you would like us to review, if the existing link contains more than the allotted 10 minutes of material. Or, by default, we will review the first 5-10 min. of material.


If you have questions or issues regarding how to send us your application materials, or if you are in need of an application fee waiver, please DM us at: [email protected]


About She Who Has No Master(s)


Founded in 2015, She Who Has No Master(s) is a project of multi-voiced collectivity, hybrid poetics, encounters, in-between spaces and (dis)places of the Vietnamese diaspora. Through a collaborative art + writing process SWHNM seeks to bring together the “multi-voices" of womxn and nonbinary writers of the Vietnamese diaspora and, in thus doing, foster community, broaden visibility, and engage meaningfully across diasporic divides. She Who Has No Master(s) is a program and collective art project of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). 

Application Fee
Registration
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    $25.00

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