Melvin MS Goo Writing Fellowship 2026 (up to $10,000) – YOA

Deadline: March 2, 2026

Applications are open for the Melvin MS Goo Writing Fellowship 2026. The Melvin MS Goo Writing Fellowship awards monetary help to particular person journalists, authors, or writers from the United States or China for tasks that improve understanding between the 2 nations. This East-West Center fellowship is supported by a beneficiant endowment from the Melvin M.S. Goo Memorial Fund.

Melvin MS Goo was a veteran journalist who led a 34-yr profession within the United States and Asia prior to his passing in 2016. Born in Macau and graduating highschool in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, Mr. Goo labored for 18 years as a reporter, editor, and editorial author at The Honolulu Advertiser. In 1977 he was awarded the celebrated Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Mr. Goo continued his profession in Asia, rising to Chief News Editor at The Nikkei Weekly and later Editor-in-Chief at Taiwan News.

Benefits

• The fellowship will award US$10,000 in monetary help.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be nationals or everlasting residents of both the United States or the People’s Republic of China (together with the Hong Kong and Macau SARs).
• All candidates from each nations might be totally thought of no matter ethnicity or ancestral background.

The tasks:

• May be produced in English or a Chinese language selection with an accompanying English translation; purposes have to be submitted in English.
• Must be revealed or in any other case made publicly accessible within the United States and/or China; potential mediums embody publication in print, print or on-line periodicals, and many others.
• Must be an unique work; accomplished or revealed tasks won’t be thought of. 
• Must be accomplished and delivered (i.e. revealed or distributed) by December 2026. 

Selection Criteria

Project proposals might be evaluated by a range committee composed of revered US-China specialists and journalism professionals. The committee’s evaluations might be primarily based on the next standards:

• How the proposed challenge will promote higher understanding between the individuals of the United States and China.
• A principal give attention to underreported points and/or matters associated to financial safety.
• Any presence of parts in battle with the Fellowship’s mission, together with divisive or inflammatory rhetoric.
• Whether the challenge’s supposed viewers is sufficiently broad and/or influential to contribute to the Fellowship’s mission.
• Confidence that the challenge’s sources are sufficiently various, dependable, and effectively-knowledgeable.
• Creativity and influence.

Application

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