2024 Courage to Write Grantees, Writers of Note, & Finalists

Grantees:

Abdelrahman ElGendy Huna (Memoir), Pittsburgh, PA More

Amy Kennedy Vanishing Points: Words for Disappearing (Nonfiction), New Orleans, LA More

Anthony Hudson Looking for Tiger Lily (Memoir), Portland, OR More

Azra Liaqat Khan Mona: A Muslim Stripper’s Memoir of Race, Empire, and Family (Memoir), Washington, D.C. More

Emma Barrow Other Plans (Screenplay), Portland, OR More

Julie Kim To Raise Wonderful Hell (Memoir), Brooklyn, NY More

Leo Ríos Carta Blanca (Short Story Collection), Tucson, AZ More

Lisa DeAngelis Granny Panties (Historical Fiction), New Hope, PA More

Liz Breen It's Not So Bad, Really (Memoir), Natick, MA More

Sophia Huneycutt The House Built on Alligator Bones (Novel), Columbus, OH More

Stanley Gordon OFFICE (Nut) (Stage Play), Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK More

Winshen Liu Moonful (Poetry), Oxford, MS More

Writers of Note:

Alex Cain The Body in the Greenhouse (Historical Fiction), Jamestown, RI More

Anna Louie Sussman Inconceivable: Reproduction in an Age of Uncertainty (Nonfiction), New York City, NY More

Anthony Aycock Just Plain Filthy: The Story Behind Book Banning's Trial of the Century (Nonfiction), Cary, NC More

Conor Bracken All-American Dad (Poetry), Cleveland Heights, OH More

Cora Currier Some Types of Intelligence (Novel), Molokai, Hawai'i More

David Philip Mullins The Houndsman (Novel), Omaha, NE More

Emmy Her Many Horses The Remembering (Climate Fiction), Oceti Sakowiƞ Territory, South Dakota More

Erica Blumfield Starring Erica Blumfield (Memoir), Los Angeles, CA More

Julia Zarankin The Babushka Beauty Pageant (Novel), Toronto, CANADA More

Karla Cordero Chillona / Crybaby (Poetry), San Diego, CA More

Karolina Letunova Siberian Summer (Novel), Davis, CA More

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic (Nonfiction), Western MA / Northern Italy More

Kenyatta D. Berry The Price of Freedom (Nonfiction), Santa Monica, CA More

Kim Watson Searching for Zora (Neale Hurston) – The State of Poverty in America Today (Creative Nonfiction), Los Angeles, CA More

Lorraine Avila Dieasperra (Fiction), Bronx, NY More

May Lee-Yang The Happy Life (Short Story Collection), St. Paul, MN More

Natasha Driscoll High Yellow (Fiction), Allendale, NJ More

Nishant Batsha A Superfluous Man (Novel), Buffalo, NY More

Patrick Strickland A History of Heartache: Stories (Short Story Collection), Athens, GREECE More

Pepper Auerbach My Brain Itches! (Graphic Novel/Memoir), Brooklyn, NY More

Finalists:

Aimee Seiff Christian Nobody’s Daughter: An Adoptee's Memoir of Lost and Found (Memoir), Concord, MA More

Andrew Altschul The Greatest Story Ever Told (Novel), Fort Collins, CO More

Beata Grablevska Where the Pines Cry (Memoir), The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS More

Becky Jensen No Man’s Land: Unpacking One Woman’s Worth on the Colorado Trail (Memoir), Rustic, CO More

Ben Kim Unified (TV Pilot), Hacienda Heights, CA More

Catherine Julia Carberry Bitter Tropic (Novel), Woodstock, NY More

Christopher Shipman Brick by Brick (Poetry), Greensboro, NC More

Elise Atchison Untamed: Living on the Edge of Wildness (Nonfiction), Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, MT More

Elizabeth Wood Don’t Listen to Starr Bright (Novel), Cincinnati, OH More

Erin Weller Star Farm (Middle-grade Novel), Spokane, WA More

Fanély Gouguet A Baby, No Strings Attached (Romantic Comedy), Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG More

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes ampersand organ (Poetry), San Francisco, CA More

Iris (Yi Youn) Kim Before and After (Memoir), Los Angeles, CA More

J.C. Rodriguez Where On Long Island Will You Bury Me? (Poetry), Syracuse, NY More

James McAdams The Florida Shuffle (Fiction), Delray/St. Petersburg, FL More

Jay Shifman The Children Of Stockbridge (Novel), Philadelphia, PA More

Laura Villareal Almanac in the Year of Naming (Poetry), Lockhart, TX More

Leslie V. Nguyen-Okwu American Hyphen (Memoir), Austin, TX More

Matthew Modica The Rest of the Story (Novel), Boston, MA More

Mbinguni Till the Time (Fiction), Fernandina Beach, FL More

Melody Glenn How to Blow Up a Hospital (Novel), Tucson, AZ More

Natasha Nutkiewicz Crude Conspiracy (Fiction TV Series), Miami, FL More

Omer Friedlander The Glass Golem (Novel), New York City, NY More

Randy Faustino Kosmotrope (Graphic Novel), Sioux Falls, SD More

Sabura Rashid The Stone Thrower’s Daughter (Play), New York City, NY More

Sassy Mohen On the Hook (Screen Play), Los Angeles, CA More

Sayuri Matsuura Ayers Radish Women (Poetry), Columbus, OH More

Shazna Nessa Beneath the Same Stars (Memoir), New York, NY More

simóne j banks continuum (Poetry), Lancaster, PA More

Svetlana Satchkova The Way You Want It (Novel), Brooklyn, NY More

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