Tin House Workshop: Reading Fellowship
April 10, 2025
April 30, 2025
Program
The Tin House Workshop Reading Fellowship is a 12-month paid fellowship that runs from August through July each year. It is designed to provide fellows with an opportunity to gain insight into arts administration, sharpen their critical reading skills, and help shape our workshop and residency programs. We believe this program opens up our admission panel to a broader set of readers with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and passions. Through this collaboration, we have seen our programs and community expand thoughtfully and meaningfully through the implementation of new policies, programs, and awards.
The Reading Fellow’s responsibilities will include reading, voting, awarding scholarships, and selecting Residents. Fellows can expect to read an average of 10 hours a week, though there will be many reading breaks throughout the year.
Through this program, Fellows will also be given opportunities to enrich their writing practices through online classes and workshop lectures. The Fellowship will culminate with a week-long writing residency at the Tin House Summer Workshop.
The Fellowship comes with the following:
- $5,000 Stipend
- $600 credit for Tin House Online Programs (Craft Intensives, Seminars, Lectures)
- Lecture Pass to the 2026 Winter Workshop
- A week-long residency at the 2026 Tin House Summer Workshop (this includes room & board and a $300 travel stipend).
The Reading Fellowship begins in late July 2025 and concludes in July 2026 with a writing residency at our Summer Workshop (in Portland, Oregon). Fellows can expect to read an average of 10 hours a week, though there will be many reading breaks throughout the year.
Please note this fellowship is currently only open to 2022-2025 Workshop and Residency Alum.
2025-2026 Reading Fellows

Jaye Nasir is a poet and fiction writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has recently appeared in The Suburban Review, Passport of Witness and Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. Her short story chapbook, Full of Eyes Within, is available from The Fabulist, and her poetry is featured in the video game Life is Strange: Double Exposure. She is a Tin House Workshop alum, a 2025 Atticus Hotel writer in residence, and she will be a Sitka Center for Arts & Ecology resident in 2026. To pay the bills, she works in the service industry and tutors reading and writing.

Lane Michael Stanley is a transgender writer and filmmaker whose work explores queerness, class, restorative justice, grief, and healing. His writing has appeared/is forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Foglifter, The Ana, Brevity, The Belladonna, and HowlRound. Lane’s films and plays have been presented by 35 film festivals and 21 theaters in 25 states and four countries, and shown in soup kitchens, meditations gardens, addiction treatment centers, and San Quentin State Prison. He holds an MFA from UT Austin. Lane is currently hard at work on a novel and a memoir, both of which explore the healing and liberatory powers of BDSM. www.lanemichaelstanley.com.

Nicole P. Chulick is a Black, biracial writer with B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale, and an M.A. in Sociology and Education from Columbia Teachers College. Her fiction won the Black Warrior Review Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the CRAFT Short Fiction Prize. Her nonfiction appears in midnight & indigo. Her work is supported by the 2025 Tin House Winter Workshop and the 2025 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Nicole serves on the advisory board of Inprint Houston, a non-profit that promotes the literary arts throughout her community.

Nina C. Peláez is a poet, essayist, and educator based in Maui, HI. A queer, neurodivergent adoptee and the daughter of a Cuban exile, Nina was born in Las Vegas, NV and raised in Brooklyn, NY. A Best New Poets nominee, Nina's writing often explores themes of displacement, diaspora, ecology, grief, and resilience and has been published in Narrative, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Rattle, Electric Literature, Swamp Pink, & others. She is the Associate Director of The Merwin Conservancy, is a mentor for The Adroit Journal, and is a 2025 Alumni Fellow for the Bennington Writing Seminars, where she holds and MFA in Poetry. She is seeking a publisher for her debut manuscript, and is working on a second poetry collection and a memoir-in-essays. She's so excited to be joining Tin House in this role.

Danielle received her MFA from the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and the Hudson Valley Writers Center. The winner of the 2025 Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award, her work appears or is forthcoming in the Colorado Review, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, and the South Florida Poetry Journal, among others. She is the second daughter of a Puerto Rican landscaper and domestic worker and received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Born and raised in México, Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador is a poet, editor, and interpreter-translator. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee. She is a Tin House, Community of Writers, British Centre for Literary Translation, and Letras Latinas fellow. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in EPOCH, Punto de Partida, The McNeese Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She co-founded the University Network of Women Writers.
Past Fellows
Brenna Gomez (2023-2024)
Camille U. Adams (2023-2024)
Destiny Hemphill (2023-2024)
Felix Lecocq (2023-2024)
Giovannai Rosa (2023-2024)
Joseph Demes (2023-2024)
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya (2023-2024)
Stuti Sharma (2023-2024)
Ash Huang (2024-2025)
Ide Amari Thompson (2024-2025)
Lydia Kim (2024-2025)
Urvashi Bahuguna (2024-2025)
Alexis M. Wright (2024-2025)
Julian Guy (2024-2025)
Frankie Concepcion (2024-2025)
Bex Frankeberger (2024-2025)