Kaitlyn Greenidge has been named Substack's Senior Fellow, which carries a $100,000 grant.
Substack, the (apparently pretty well-funded) newsletter distribution company, has announced its second round of fellows, led by novelist and essayist Kaitlyn Greenidge. Greenidge is the only Senior Fellow of the ten, a title that carries with it a $100,000 grant.
Her newsletter, Kaitlyn, will feature “cultural criticism that is entirely unchained from the demands of the timely/the zeitgeist. Deep dives on forgotten cultural phenomena; interviews with writers who wrote forgotten, seminal works; critiques and discussion groups around cult classics and art from the recent past.”
Other fellows—who will each receive a $25,000 grant as well as $3,000 stipends—include Amy McQuire, who writes an “independent Australian Aboriginal Rights publication,” Edith Zimmerman, founding editor of The Hairpin who writes and illustrates the Drawing Links, a newsletter of “slice-of-life comics,” and Yanyi, whose newsletter The Reading offers “creative advice, book reviews, and critical essays on literature.”
[via Substack]
Jessie Gaynor
Jessie Gaynor is a senior editor at Lit Hub whose writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Glow was published by Random House in 2023. You can buy it here.
