The de Groot Foundation

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Zahir Janmohamed

June 8, 2026

The Permitted Hours: Muslim Life in India’s Hindu Nationalist Laboratory (Memoir) set for publication in 2028 by Haymarket Books The Permitted Hours: Muslim Life in India’s Hindu Nationalist ... [Read More]

Stephanie DeGooyer

June 8, 2026

Asylum Nation (Nonfiction) represented by Mel Flashman at Janklow & Nesbit Asylum Nation foretells the unraveling of the global asylum system and return to the colonial practice of offshoring ... [Read More]

Sophia Huneycutt

June 8, 2026

The House Built on Alligator Bones (Novel) set for publication on October 6, 2026 by Dutton Books / Penguin Random House A woman fights to claim her inheritance—an alligator farming empire—and ... [Read More]

Sahar Delijani

June 8, 2026

For Every Person You Kill (Novel) set for publication in Spring 2027 by Melville House A work of autobiographical fiction, For Every Person You Kill follows Neda, a writer living in New York ... [Read More]

Rodney Gomez

June 8, 2026

Neighborhood to Neighborhood (Poetry & Visual Poetry) Neighborhood to Neighborhood is a collection of visual poems, prose poems, and lyric essays. The core of the manuscript is a poetical, ... [Read More]

Nishant Batsha

June 8, 2026

Sabbathday (Novel) represented by Michael Taeckens at Massie McQuilkin & Altman On a Shaker colony in 1870s Maine, a Civil War veteran befriends an orphan. Through the Christian exhortation to ... [Read More]

Lauren Markham

June 8, 2026

Ejector Seat (Novel) set for publication by Transit Books Ejector Seat is about the rise of autocracy in the U.S., the existential fears of the populous in the face of an unsteady future, and the ... [Read More]

Jefferey Spivey

June 8, 2026

Fatherwife (Novel) Fatherwife is a novel about loneliness and desire, with a Black queer lens and a pop culture fixation. The story happens on two parallel tracks: a “traditional” narrative ... [Read More]

Elena Dudum

June 8, 2026

They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful (Memoir) set for publication on October 27, 2026 by One Signal / Simon & Schuster “A deeply felt memoir of race and history that defies social ... [Read More]

David Philip Mullins

June 3, 2026

The Houndsman (Novel) represented by Julie Stevenson of Massie & McQuilkin The Houndsman follows big-game hunter Jesse Tindol on her quest to locate a missing child in the backwoods of ... [Read More]

Azra Liaqat Khan

June 3, 2026

Mona: An Immodest Memoir of Race and Rebellion (Memoir) set for publication on November 17, 2026 by Tiny Reparations / Penguin Random House Mona: An Immodest Memoir of Race & Rebellion turns ... [Read More]

Anthony Hudson

June 3, 2026

Looking for Tiger Lily (Memoir) An Indigiqueer artist grows up seeing redface in Peter Pan and pop culture—until finding true representation and power through their ancestors and drag. “I ... [Read More]

Abdelrahman ElGendy

June 3, 2026

Headshot of writer Abdelrahman Elgendy smiling at the camera in a blue sweater.

Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming (Memoir) set for publication on September 1, 2026 by Hogarth / Penguin Random House Huna is a memoir that grapples, through the lens of a ... [Read More]

Alfredo Aguilar

June 3, 2026

My North County (Poetry) set for publication in Spring 2027 by University of Akron Press My North County is a collection of poems that chronicles the intersecting histories of increased ... [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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