COURAGE to WRITE grants application for 2022 are now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered. We're excited to learn more about you and your ... [Read More]
Inveseting in Innovation, Education & Culture
Expanding The Conversation
Visiting Fellow Ian Williams
Ian Williams recently discussed his latest book, Disorientation: Being Black in the World at the American Library in Paris. Listen to the ... [Read More]
Strengthening Communities
The Chanua Dada Project is launched!
The Chanua Dada Project is launched! The Chanua Dada project in Kenya empowers women through sustainable, community based entrepreneurial ... [Read More]
What We Want You To Know…
Desperate Literature Short Story Competition Winners to be announced on July 7, 2022.
The Desperate Literature Short Story Competition submissions are now closed. 2022 winners will be ... [Read More]
First Page Prize to announce long and shortlists soon.
The 2022 FIRST PAGES PRIZE will announce their longlist and shortlist soon. Winners in Fiction and ... [Read More]
Celebrating Authors
Matthieu Aikins, Visiting Fellow, brings his reporting from Afghanistan to touch on the critical humanitarian refugee crises in his new book, The Naked Don’t Fear the Water.
Former Visiting Fellow, Lan Samatha Chang’s, The Family Chao: A Novel, published by W.W. Norton & Company is in bookstores now.
Former Visiting Fellow Megan Meyhew Bergman’s, How Strange a Season: Fiction, published by Scribner will be in stores soon.
Recent Writer in Residence, Amanda Gorman’s book of poetry, Call Us What We Carry was a NY Times instant bestseller!