How We Became Homeless: A Cringy Chronicle of Downward Mobility (Memoir/Creative Nonfiction), Hoboken, NJ How We Became Homeless: A Cringy Chronicle of Downward Mobility is a coming of age memoir ... [Read More]
Brian Malloy
In the Boundary Waters (Novel), Minneapolis, MN One night in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Wilderness, drunken locals threaten a family of campers in an incident that reveals the fault lines ... [Read More]
Anndee Hochman
My Plural Is People (Young Adult Novel), PA In My Plural is People, teenagers Zach and Khady, best friends since pre-school, embark on an impulsive winter-break quest to learn the truth about ... [Read More]
Amanda Mei Kim
Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land (Nonfiction Memoir), San Mateo, CA Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land explores ... [Read More]
Alona Kharina
No One is Home (Essays), Sumy, UKRAINE No One is Home is about loss of home and looking for a new one, memory as a mental disorder, identity in the ancestral, cosmic, and physical aspects. “I ... [Read More]
Alfredo Aguilar
Yield to No Country (Poetry), Lockhart, TX Yield to No Country is a collection of poems that chronicles the intersecting histories of increased militarization on the U.S/Mexico border alongside ... [Read More]
Akilah Wise
Daughters of Dahomey (Young Adult Fiction), Atlanta, GA Daughters of Dahomey is about a teenager who realizes her full power as a fighter for justice in this coming-of-age story about magic, ... [Read More]
Stephanie Cuepo Wobby
To the Other Side of the Sea (Nonfiction Memoir), Milton, VT To the Other Side of the Sea is a memoir about silence, inheritance, and belonging against the backdrop of the Philippines and the ... [Read More]
Sahar Delijani
The Luminous Blue (Literary Fiction), New York, NY The Luminous Blue explores life in a dictatorship, the inheritance of loss and trauma and the way we survive by the stories we tell. “I hope ... [Read More]
Ryan D. Matthews
Country Music (Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Country Music, three students struggle within their impoverished rural community when a school shooting—perpetrated by one of the boys—leaves survivors ... [Read More]
Max Watman
Tomorrow, the War (Historical Fiction/Literary Fiction), Powhatan, VA Tomorrow, the War is about the adventures of the outlaw Jed Stokes, and his relationship with the formerly enslaved Bodkin ... [Read More]
Lydia Kim
The Divers (Novel), San Francisco Bay Area, CA The Divers explores the struggle of breaking painful cycles when misogyny, self-exile, and unacknowledged trauma create gulfs between generations, ... [Read More]
Leila Christine Nadir
Afghan Americana: An Intimate Geopolitical Memoir (Literary Memoir), Farmington, ME Afghan Americana is a lyrical geopolitical investigation and a coming-of-age story of the wars that rage within ... [Read More]
Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham
What Time Is It Mr. Wolf? (Literary Fiction/Horror), Copenhagen, DENMARK What Time Is It Mr. Wolf? is a mythologized account of Craigwell-Graham's uncle's struggle with mental illness as a young ... [Read More]
Ja’net Danielo
Eclipse (Poetry), Long Beach, CA Eclipse examines our relationship to that to which we can never return and, ultimately, embraces transformation in the wake of devastation. “I hope these poems ... [Read More]
Camille Wanliss
An Ornament and a Disgrace (Historical Novel), New York, NY An Ornament and a Disgrace is a novel about land and legacy set in 1960s Jamaica. "My aim is to create complex yet accurate portrayals ... [Read More]
Caroline Schmidt
The Understudy (Novel), Phoenix, AZ The Understudy, a bildungsroman, follows Norwegian teen Matty Johansen as he moves between cities and countries in an attempt to make sense of the suicide of his ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO & COURAGE to WRITE Finalists Announced!
Congratulations to the LANDO and COURAGE to WRITE finalists! Meet the LANDO finalists & COURAGE to WRITE finalists. We'll announce the LANDO grant awardees and the LANDO Writers of Note ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Finalists Announced!
Congratulations to the COURAGE to WRITE finalists! The COURAGE to WRITE grant awardees and Writers of Note will be announced the last week of April 2023. THANK YOU to all who applied. Reviewers ... [Read More]