The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow has announced that Siham Inshassi is the winner of the 2024 “Imagination” Fellowship.

Inshassi was selected from 52 applications received from writers across the U.S. and overseas. This fellowship was for any genre that invited writers to explore how imagination has influenced them, changed their life, or led them to a creative outlet.

Inshassi, who will receive a two-week residency at WCDH, is a Palestinian-American author, currently working on her first novel.

She was the 2023 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fiction Fellow and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from The New School, where she was awarded the Ignite Fellowship, working with the New York Women’s Foundation.

Her work focuses on culture and identity politics, both in the home and beyond, and explores psychology and human nature and their relationship to cultural dynamics. Inshassi has been published in The Margins, The Inquisitive Eater, Brooklyn Magazine and The Drum, among others. She is inspired by art, people and places.

“WCDH looks forward to meeting Siham, a talented writer with the imagination, creativity and strength that is clearly portrayed through her writing,” said Jeanne Glass, WCDH director.

For more information about sponsoring a fellowship in the genre and/or area of interest you are passionate about, visit writerscolony.org/sponsor- a-fellowship.