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]
Thanks to all who applied for the 2023 LANDO & COURAGE to WRITE grants.
Finalists in both categories will be posted on Monday March 27, 2023. The Selection Committee is making final decisions. The LANDO grant awardees and Writers of Note will be posted on April 10, ... [Read More]
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough.
Journalist and novelist Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee releases her new book, Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough. Weaving stories of asylum seekers, prisoners, ... [Read More]
Kate Kirkpatrick
Kate Kirkpatrick is a philosopher based at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. She is the author of several books and articles on French philosophy and the internationally acclaimed biography of Simone de ... [Read More]
Entries for the FIRST PAGES PRIZE have now closed.
Submissions for the 2023 FIRST PAGES PRIZES in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction have now closed. There will be three winners announced in each category. Winners will receive cash awards, ... [Read More]
Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is now closed.
Submissions for the Desperate Literature Prize short fiction prize have now closed. The deadline was April 30, 2023! Prizes include: – A week’s residency at the Civitella Ranieri ... [Read More]
LANDO Grants for Migration, Immigration & Refugee Writing
The de Groot Foundation is thrilled to collaborate with Barry Lando, award winning investigative journalist and former 60 Minutes producer, to create the LANDO grant awards for migration, immigration ... [Read More]
Elise Thi Tran Wins 2022 First Pages Prize!
Congratulations Elise Thi Tran, winner of the 2022 First Pages Prize with Dredged From the Courtyard Pond, a collection of vignettes drawing from the oral history of a family’s escape from Vietnam and ... [Read More]
Congratulations to the 2022 COURAGE to WRITE Recipients!
Congratulations to the 2022 COURAGE to WRITE Recipients! We're thrilled with this year's awardees for the inaugural COURAGE to WRITE program. Learn more about this year's Grant Awardees, Writer's of ... [Read More]
2022-23 Visiting Fellows
Adrienne Raphel and Kate Kirkpatrick and will be the 2022-23 Visiting Fellows at the American Library in Paris. Adrienne Raphel, writer, teacher, and poet, is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: ... [Read More]
FINALISTS chosen for the COURAGE to WRITE Grants!
The 2022 COURAGE to WRITE selection committee loved reading your applications! So many exciting and important projects. Inspring! Thirty-three finalists have been chosen. In honor of our inaugural ... [Read More]
FIRST PAGES PRIZE winners to be announced soon!
The 2022 FIRST PAGES PRIZE winners will be announced in the next few weeks. Open to un-agented writers worldwide, the FIRST PAGES PRIZE invites you to enter your FIRST FIVE PAGES (1250 ... [Read More]
CONGRATULATIONS to the 2022 COURAGE TO WRITE RECIPIENTS!
Meet Campbell Walmsley, Jefferey Spivey, Joy Lanzendorfer, Leah Whitcomb, Michaeljulius Y. Idani, Monique Hayes & Zahir Janmohamed, the 2022 Courage to Write grant awardees. Learn more about the ... [Read More]
Ian Williams
Ian Williams recently discussed his latest book, Disorientation: Being Black in the World at the American Library in Paris. Listen to the conversation here. In 2020, author and poet Ian Williams ... [Read More]
Matthieu Aikins speaks about his new book, The Naked Don’t Fear the Water
Matthieu Aikins, Visiting Fellow, speaks about his new book, The Naked Don’t Fear the Water. Listen to his conversation with Alice McCrum at the American Library in Paris. Journalist Matthieu ... [Read More]
Megan Mayhew Bergman speaks about her new book, How Strange a Season
Megan Mayhew Bergman, former Visiting Fellow, speaks about her new book, How Strange a Season, hosted online by the American Library in Paris. Listen to the conversation. Megan Mayhew Bergman is a ... [Read More]
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water
Matthieu Aikins, Visiting Fellow, brings his reporting from Afghanistan to touch on the critical humanitarian refugee crises in his book, The Naked Don't Fear the Water. ... [Read More]
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 education initiatives. The mission of Daughters of Kenya is to ... [Read More]
The Family Chao: A Novel
Former Visiting Fellow, Lan Samatha Chang’s, The Family Chao: A Novel, was published by W.W. Norton & Company in February 2022. ... [Read More]
How Strange a Season: Fiction
Former Visiting Fellow Megan Meyhew Bergman’s, How Strange a Season: Fiction, published by Scribner will be in stores soon. ... [Read More]
Dina Nayeri
Dina Nayeri is the author of The Ungrateful Refugee, winner of the 2020 Geschwister-Scholl-Preis, finalist for the 2021 Elle Grand Prix des Lectrices, the 2019 Kirkus Prize, The Los Angeles Times Book ... [Read More]
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson is an award-winning writer of books for children and young adults. She is known for Miracle’s Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and her Newbery Honor-winning ... [Read More]
Lan Samantha Chang
Lan Samantha Chang is a poet and author of Hunger, a collection of short fiction, and two novels, Inheritance and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her latest novel, The Family Chao, was published by ... [Read More]