The Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship for African American Biography is named for the first known African American biographer and is awarded to promote biographies of African American lives.
In the spirit of Rollin’s achievement, BIO’s Rollin Fellowship aims to foster the development of biographical works that encourage deeper insight into the complexity of race relations at the bedrock of American history. This fellowship will support any biography that highlights the Black experience in the Americas, and that is set within the vast time period between (and even before) 1619 and the present. It will support any aspect of African American inhabitancy, dispersion, immigration or emigration. It will support biographies of Black lives often marginalized by gender, gender-orientation, sexuality or disability.
WORTH
- The Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship awards $2,000 to an author working on a biographical work about an African American figure or figures whose story provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Black experience.
- This fellowship also provides the recipient with a year’s membership in BIO, registration to the annual BIO Conference, and publicity through BIO’s marketing channels.
ELIGIBILITY
- The fellowship is open to all biographers anywhere in the world who are writing in English, who are working on a biography of an African American figure (or figures), and who are at any stage in the writing of a book-length biography.
- A publishing contract is not required for eligibility.
- Biography as defined for this prize is a narrative of an individual’s life or the story of a group of lives.
- Innovative ways of treating a life (or lives) will be considered at the committee’s discretion.
- Memoirs are not eligible.
DEADLINE: March 1 2022
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