Varuna announces 2025 Affirm Press Fellowship recipients

Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the 2025 Affirm Press Fellowship.

The fellowship recipients and their manuscripts are:

• Zoe Deleuil, for ‘Kita Karamel’
• Kerry Munnery, for ‘The Darkwater Child’
• Michelle Stephens, for ‘Sleeper’
• Sarah Vincent, for ‘Amorous Dreams, Hungry Danger’.

The four writers were selected from 92 applications. Michelle Haines Thomas’s submission, ‘Survival Notes’, was also announced as highly commended.

Open this year to writers of crime, thriller and mystery novels, the fellowship provides recipients with a week-long residency, offering independent writing time in a private writing studio, as well as editorial support from Affirm Press editors, who will also be staying at Varuna. After the residency, Affirm Press plans to offer general advice to the fellowship recipients, up to completion of a full or reworked draft.

More information about the fellowship and the 2025 recipients is available on the Varuna website.

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