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Sabura Rashid

April 12, 2024

The Stone Thrower’s Daughter (Play), New York City, NY In post-Roe America, a woman must choose between her rebellious daughter and her powerful husband, the most conservative governor of a ... [Read More]

Svetlana Satchkova

April 10, 2024

The Way You Want It (Novel), Brooklyn, NY The Way You Want It is a story of Maya, an emerging film director in present-day Russia navigating the intersections of art, politics, and personal ... [Read More]

Shazna Nessa

April 10, 2024

Beneath the Same Stars (Memoir), New York, NY Beneath the Same Stars is about a girl’s escape from child marriage, which ultimately leads her to a decades-long pursuit of an ever-shifting idea of ... [Read More]

Randy Faustino

April 10, 2024

Kosmotrope (Graphic Novel), Sioux Falls, SD Two heroes will find that their differences and their own supernatural secrets will be needed to save their town from an enraged primordial ... [Read More]

Omer Friedlander

April 10, 2024

The Glass Golem (Novel), New York City, NY The Glass Golem tells the story of three generations of a Jewish family. Moving from Prague to Jerusalem to New York, the novel explores ideas of ... [Read More]

Natasha Nutkiewicz

April 10, 2024

Crude Conspiracy (Fiction TV Series), Miami, FL  This limited series examines the most powerful American oil company and its 50-year-long conspiracy against climate science, democracy and everyday ... [Read More]

Melody Glenn

April 10, 2024

How to Blow Up a Hospital (Novel), Tucson, AZ A literary thriller that follows a young doctor as she stumbles through residency and uncovers the dangers of private equity in the American ... [Read More]

Matthew Modica

April 10, 2024

The Rest of the Story (Novel), Boston, MA A struggling small town in the American Heartland finds itself being used by America's politicians, pop-culture producers, and advertisers in the battle ... [Read More]

Laura Villareal

April 10, 2024

Almanac in the Year of Naming (Poetry), Lockhart, TX Almanac in the Year of Naming is a poetry collection examining the power of naming and human connections to the natural world. “My hope is ... [Read More]

Jay Shifman

April 9, 2024

The Children Of Stockbridge (Novel), Philadelphia, PA The Children of Stockbridge is the narrative of a struggling young man who is sent to a celebrated mental health facility and discovers the ... [Read More]

James McAdams

April 9, 2024

The Florida Shuffle (Fiction), Delray/St. Petersburg, FL The Florida Shuffle explores the sinister epiphenomena of the opioid epidemic, humanizing the scams, trafficking, and exploitation ... [Read More]

J.C. Rodriguez

April 9, 2024

Where On Long Island Will You Bury Me? (Poetry), Syracuse, NY Where on Long Island Will You Bury Me? drives through an expressway of Americana through vignettes of pop cultural critique & ... [Read More]

Iris (Yi Youn) Kim

April 9, 2024

Before and After (Memoir), Los Angeles, CA Before and After follows my coming-of-age MeToo story as I fall in love while struggling with PTSD, mend wounds with family, and navigate the deeply ... [Read More]

Fanély Gouguet

April 9, 2024

A Baby, No Strings Attached (Romantic Comedy), Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG Craving to give what she never received, maternal love, Charlotte decides to get pregnant on her own by sending a tweet, ... [Read More]

Erin Weller

April 9, 2024

Star Farm (Middle-grade Novel), Spokane, WA Someone is stealing stars. Twelve-year-old Mattie must find the thief, reunite her family, and defend the village’s buried secret, before the whole sky ... [Read More]

Elizabeth Wood

April 9, 2024

Don’t Listen to Starr Bright (Novel), Cincinnati, OH Don’t Listen to Starr Bright follows a small-town pariah’s journey to decipher the scandalous truths of her mother’s cryptic suicide note. ... [Read More]

Elise Atchison

April 9, 2024

Untamed: Living on the Edge of Wildness (Nonfiction), Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, MT Untamed is a memoir about living off-grid in the Montana wilderness, using observations of the natural ... [Read More]

Catherine Julia Carberry

April 9, 2024

Bitter Tropic (Novel), Woodstock, NY Bitter Tropic travels between New York and Puerto Rico, following three characters whose lives are profoundly impacted by the 1950s Puerto Rican independence ... [Read More]

Ben Kim

April 9, 2024

Unified (TV Pilot), Hacienda Heights, CA In the 1980s, a clandestine Korean-American operative infiltrates a religious cult led by a millionaire Korean pastor infamous for mass marriages and ... [Read More]

Beata Grablevska

April 9, 2024

Where the Pines Cry (Memoir), The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS Where the Pines Cry recounts my upbringing in Soviet Lithuania, shaped by scarcity and communist indoctrination until discovering my ... [Read More]

Andrew Altschul

April 9, 2024

The Greatest Story Ever Told (Novel), Fort Collins, CO A novel about grief, faith, art, technology, and late capitalism in which Felix Frankl’s grief over his sister’s disappearance leads him ... [Read More]

Aimee Seiff Christian

April 9, 2024

Nobody’s Daughter: An Adoptee's Memoir of Lost and Found (Memoir), Concord, MA Nobody’s Daughter takes a critical look at the transactional nature of closed adoptions through one adoptee’s ... [Read More]

simóne j banks

April 9, 2024

continuum (Poetry), Lancaster, PA continuum is a poetry + photography project that seeks to restage, reimagine and restore the seen and unseen relationship between the Black body and ... [Read More]

Sassy Mohen

April 9, 2024

On the Hook (Screenplay), Los Angeles, CA A Texas college student discovers her friend's life-threatening pregnancy and has 24-hours to get her across state lines before it’s too late. "I aim ... [Read More]

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The de Groot Foundation is a private 501(C)(3) grant making foundation located in the United States that supports writers and the literary arts.

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