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title: "Literary Festival Fellows Showcase Set for Tuesday in Charleston"
url: https://www.herecharleston.com/2026/11/09/charleston-literary-festival-fellows-showcase-nov-10/
date: 2026-11-09T05:14:56-05:00
modified: 2026-11-09T05:14:56-05:00
author: "Oswaldo Palma"
categories: ["Events"]
site: "HERE Charleston"
attribution: "HERE Charleston"
---

# Literary Festival Fellows Showcase Set for Tuesday in Charleston

> CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two writers who came to the Charleston Literary Festival through its fellowship programs will share their work at a free showcase in Charleston at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10. The session spotlights Sterling Pettit Chancley, this year’s Wayland and Marion Cato Fellow, and Kateryna Yehorushkina, the first writer chosen for the

*Source: [HERE Charleston](https://www.herecharleston.com/2026/11/09/charleston-literary-festival-fellows-showcase-nov-10/) — November 9, 2026 by Oswaldo Palma*

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two writers who came to the Charleston Literary Festival through its fellowship programs will share their work at a free showcase in Charleston at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

The session spotlights Sterling Pettit Chancley, this year’s Wayland and Marion Cato Fellow, and Kateryna Yehorushkina, the first writer chosen for the new Fiederowicz International Fellowship. Organizers picked Ukraine as the debut country for the international program.

Chancley’s project follows Cato Waring, an enslaved man who escaped during the Civil War and served the Union army as a nurse. The Cato prize is open to emerging fiction and nonfiction writers from both Carolinas and comes with a $10,000 stipend, lodging downtown for the festival, a workspace and entry to sessions and receptions.

Yehorushkina, a poet and literary scholar, has written more than 20 books. Since the Russian invasion she has gathered testimony from liberated areas and worked with children through volunteer projects. This trip will be her first to the United States.

The showcase falls inside the 10th annual festival, which runs Nov. 6 through 15 at the Dock Street Theatre and features more than 80 authors along with film, dance, music and theater. Names on this year’s lineup include Barbara Kingsolver, Steven Pinker, Tayari Jones and Curtis Sittenfeld, and tickets for individual events are on sale now.