Excited to launch Accepted.com's Fellowship Services & speak about how competitive fellowships from @pdsoros.bsky.social , Fulbright Foundation Greece & @icwa.org changed my life. As "fellowship matchmaker," I look forward to helping clients achieve their dreams: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

How to Get Selected for a Fulbright and Other Competitive Fellowships [Episode 624]

Podcast Episode · Admissions Straight Talk · July 2 · 20m

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We are delighted to announce the Blakemore-ICWA Fellowship, a new partnership between ICWA & the Blakemore Foundation. Julia Walton, the first Blakemore-ICWA Fellow, will spend a year examining youth civic participation in Japan amid demographic change. For more info: www.icwa.org/blakemore-ic...

Some photos from our trip to China, wandering ancient streets transformed into pedestrian shopping areas and thinking about the precarious balance between the country’s long history and its headlong plunge into the future: compass.icwa.org/p/southwest-...

"As I marveled at the skylines of megacities & wandered ancient streets transformed into shopping areas, I thought about the precarious balance btwn China’s long history & its headlong plunge into the future." @steventagle.com shares photos from Chongqing & Chengdu: compass.icwa.org/p/southwest-...

Southwest China

Photos from Chongqing and Chengdu

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80 writers from across Europe have already booked to join us in September. We hope you will join us! Don't wait too long to book as places will sell out. Come for: ✨️ writing workshops ✨️ exploring Madrid ✨️ new friends ✨️ good food and wine

European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Ticket for our Annual Salon in Madrid are on sale now! If you’ve joined us before, you’ll know: European Writers salon is unlike any literary event you’ve been to. It isn't a conference. It's a weekend of creativity, surprise and community. Below are some quotes from attendees last year...

EWS is heading to Amsterdam! At this fun and friendly open mic salon, we'll listen to excellent readings, drink wine and get to know writers from Amsterdam and across Europe. Further details will be made available nearer the time, including how to sign up to read and exact timings. Link below.

Matthew Wheeler (Thailand 2002-2004) & @steventagle.com (Greece 2021-2023) meet up in Bangkok to trade fellowship stories, discuss how the city has changed & Matt’s work researching Southeast Asian security issues for @crisisgroup.org. Steven wears his trusty ICWA cap whenever he travels.

"The Buddhist temples tapered to heaven, the golden faces of deities fearsome or serene. Visitors placed coins in their mouths, covered them in gold leaf." Former fellow @steventagle.com shares photos from a 2013 trip to Thailand on Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/thailand

Thailand

Photos from a first trip to Asia in 2013.

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Lahaina has done the impossible & rebuilt itself after it burned to the ground. I hope our world, which is currently on fire, can do the same. Read my new #poem: compass.icwa.org/p/lahaina. Thank you @icwa.org & @cassmannes.bsky.social for making it happen. #marianazos

Institute of Current World Affairs@icwa.org · 6mo ago

Because the thing that always burns To the ground somehow manages to rise back up, We drive past the remains of what was Once great and small Excerpt from "Lahaina," a new poem by Maria Nazos @marianazos.bsky.social on Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/lahaina

In May 2013, I took my first trip to the vertically oriented city of Hong Kong. Grateful for the opportunity to revisit some of the photos I took then for @icwa.org's Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/hong-kong

Congratulations to the new @icwa.org fellows!!

Institute of Current World Affairs@icwa.org · 8mo ago

We’re delighted to announce the appointment of three outstanding new fellows who will begin their fellowships next year: Mahli Knutson, Diana Kruzman @dkruzman.bsky.social and Sabrina Ochoa www.icwa.org/icwa-2026-fe...

Happy to help Xander Beattie launch his thrilling novel The President in LA! Our fireside chat will be available online soon. Thank you to everyone who came to share the night with us. (Also a great plug for @andchangepoetry.bsky.social community!) pronk.press/a-hollywood-...

Reading an excerpt from my @offassignment.bsky.social essay, “To the First-Time Porn Star,” last night at Zurich Spoken Word. Thank you, Yun, for the snap and the community! Here’s a link to read the full piece: www.offassignment.com/articles/ste...

For Compass, former ICWA fellow @steventagle.com returns to the remote Greek island of Chios to savor the flavor & tradition of village cuisine at Evi Katsioni's O Cafenes tou Giorgi in the central square of medieval Pitios: compass.icwa.org/p/in-a-remot...

In a remote Greek village, fresh and vibrant local flavors

In Pitios, on the island of Chios, O Cafenes tou Giorgi draws from old tradition.

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Following the success of Julie Irigaray's Prose Poetry Workshop, we’re delighted to bring you her new online course, The Body in Poetry 📅 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:00 - 20:00 BST Whether it is changing, (un)tamed, or suffering, the body plays a greater role in our lives than we want to admit...

Really happy to cameo in @aldbera.bsky.social’s piece about @saloneurope.bsky.social, which captures how unique and special the weekend was. Yay for nerding out over tea, and long live the Scroll! 📜

European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Truly moved by this Substack by @aldbera.bsky.social describing her experience at our Annual Salon over the weekend. This is everything we hoped for—creating a place where writers from across Europe can come together and get to know each other—to make writing a little less lonely💛

3 days. 3 salons. 5 hosts. 25 readers. 100 attendees. intimate moments and communal ones, laughter and tears, favorites new and old. @saloneurope.bsky.social, see you next year in Madrid, Sept 25-27, to do it all again.

After an incredible weekend at @saloneurope.bsky.social's #EWSBrussels2025, I decided to upgrade to Supporter. The Salon exceeded my expectations in every way. If you can, I encourage you to support EWS's vital work! If you're curious, happy to chat. europeanwriterssalon.substack.com?r=1x8pg&utm_...

European Writers Salon Substack | SalonEurope | Substack

Newsletter for the European Writers Salon. Find out all the latest happenings across Europe and ensure you never miss out on our events. Click to read European Writers Salon Substack, by SalonEurope, ...

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We ended the morning by writing in the park in the ☀️ Thank you to @steventagle.com @nancyfreund.bsky.social @cancienne.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social - a perfect morning

Very exciting to launch Compass, a new Substack journal we’ve been developing this year. @ICWA.org fellows and others, we welcome your contributions!

Institute of Current World Affairs@icwa.org · last yr.

We are very proud to launch Compass, a Substack journal that reflects on the fate of liberalism in a new era and how the US is perceived abroad. We’ll feature writing from @icwa.org alumni and others about global issues. Check out our launch edition: compass.icwa.org/p/introducin...

Just now discovering Robert Lax, who moved from New York to Greece at 46 and lived on the islands of Kalymnos and Patmos, writing tall, stark poems about sky and sea. What a find! www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Would you like to immerse yourself in a foreign culture or society for two years? For Accepted.com, I share tips for writing an @icwa.org letter of interest, the first step in the application process. Letters for 2026-2028 fellowships are due on June 15! blog.accepted.com/how-to-write...

How to Write a Letter of Interest for the Institute of Current World Affairs

A guide to applying for the ICWA two-year international writing fellowship and tips for crafting a letter of interest.

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This is 40. #sechseläuten #sechseläutenplatz #zurich #switzerland

💜💜💜 @offassignment.bsky.social you always know how to make my day!

Off Assignment@offassignment.bsky.social · last yr.

This week, we're reading: Anthony Lane's regional tour of risotto; OA contributor @steventagle.com on finding refuge in the Greek language, and @devonfredericksen.bsky.social on a whale washed ashore on Long Beach Peninsula. These & more recs: buff.ly/NLzyfQN

Last summer, @offassignment.bsky.social's month-long “Writing the Modern Love Essay” Masters’ Series course, led by @laviniaspalding.bsky.social, gave me insight into the column’s structure & helped me answer a tricky question: What's my unique revelation about the nature of love & relationships?

Welcome to bsky, @offassignment.bsky.social 🤓💜

Steven Tagle@steventagle.com · 2y ago

Grateful to learn that my essay is one of @OffAssignment’s most read of 2024, along with nine other stunning stories from around the world. Thank you to everyone who read and shared my work 🥹 www.offassignment.com/articles/ste...

Glad for the opportunity to speak with former fellow Casey Kelso about the global implications of Africa’s debt crisis for @icwafellows.

Institute of Current World Affairs@icwa.org · 2y ago

Burdened by foreign loans with exorbitant interest rates, African governments have cut public services & borrowed further to avoid defaulting. Poverty has risen & social & political unrest is growing. Casey Kelso (S. Africa, 1991-1993) weighs in on Africa's debt crisis: www.icwa.org/africa-debt-...

Grateful to learn that my essay is one of @OffAssignment’s most read of 2024, along with nine other stunning stories from around the world. Thank you to everyone who read and shared my work 🥹 www.offassignment.com/articles/ste...

To the First-Time Porn Star — Off Assignment

“You’d chosen a fitting alias—unique enough to stand out from Sean Cody’s stable of all-American jocks named Mark and Ken, but not laughable like Knox or Shamu. ‘Charley’ with a y dangling off the e...

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Launching my Substack with this “Letter from an erotic awakening,” recently published on Off Assignment. Read it here, and if you enjoy it, please subscribe & share! open.substack.com/pub/steventa...

Letter from an erotic awakening

My essay "To the First-Time Porn Star" in Off Assignment

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For OffAssignment, I wrote about a stranger who haunts me: When I was 26, Charley on Sean Cody presented an empathetic, ecstatic vision of sexuality that accompanied me through major life changes. You can read my letter to Charley here: www.offassignment.com/articles/ste...

To the First-Time Porn Star — Off Assignment

“You’d chosen a fitting alias—unique enough to stand out from Sean Cody’s stable of all-American jocks named Mark and Ken, but not laughable like Knox or Shamu. ‘Charley’ with a y dangling off the e...

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