Past Fellows
Season One: 2023
Ryan Calais Cameron
Ryan Calais Cameron is an award-winning writer, actor, and theatre-maker. His credits include: Paramount, Sky Studios, West End’s Bush Theatre, Royal Court, BBC3, and C4, among others. His play, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy made an extended run on the West End and was nominated for "Best New Play" at the Olivier Awards.
Doreen St. Félix
Doreen St. Félix is a writer from Brooklyn. She was formerly editor-at-large for Lenny Letter, a newsletter from Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, and has been on staff The New Yorker since 2017, where she has served as the television critic since 2019. Previously, she was a culture writer at MTV News. Her writing has appeared in the Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, The Fader, and Pitchfork. St. Félix was named on the Forbes “30 Under 30” media list in 2016. In 2017, she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, and, in 2019, she won in the same category.
Jenny Zhang
Jenny Zhang is the author of the story collection Sour Heart and the poetry collection My Baby First Birthday. Her work appears in The New York Times, Poetry, Harpers, N+1, Best American Poetry, and other publications. She’s written television and film for A24, HBO, Netflix, Apple, and Amazon.
Rebecca Abrams
Rebecca Abrams is an award-winning author, journalist and literary critic. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oxford and is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. Her debut novel, Touching Distance won the MJA Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize for Literature. Her non-fiction works include Woman in a Man’s World, The Playful Self, and When Parents Die. A former columnist for The Daily Telegraph and feature writer for The Guardian, she is the recipient of an Amnesty International Press Award and is a regular literary critic for The Financial Times.
Jake Brunger
Jake Brunger is a musical theatre writer, screenwriter, and lyricist. Jak’s stage adaptation of The Great British Bake Off received four stars in The Times, The Telegraph, The Observer, and Daily Mail and recently played a limited 12-week season at the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End. His debut feature film Love Sarah reached #1 at the New Zealand Box Office and #4 at the Australian Box Office. It was released on Netflix in July 2022 reaching #5 in Netflix’s Top 10 Films.