The Birthright of Sons (story collection) Urbandale, IA My current project is The Birthright of Sons, a collection of stories centered around the experience of marginalized people, namely Black and ... [Read More]
Campbell Walmsley
Burn Rate (novel) Atlanta, GA ... [Read More]
Jay Gao wins 2022 Desperate Literature Prize!
Jay Gao, a Chinese Scottish poet and fiction writer, wins the 2022 Desperate Literature Short Story Competition with The Baron and His Volcano. Jay is the author of Imperium (2022), forthcoming ... [Read More]
Meet the 2021 Nina Stulp Memorial Scholarship Recipients
Meet the 2021 Nina Stulp Memorial Scholarship recipients, Isabel Salsbury, Landon Sibley, Madison Reichert, and Nathan Carlson, all share a commitment to and passion for science, math and ... [Read More]
Nokor Tep Women’s Hospital
The de Groot Foundation, gave one of the initial challenge grants to launch the creation and building of the Nokor Tep Women’s Hospital to facilitate access to health care services for all Cambodian ... [Read More]
Call Us What We Carry
Writer in Residence Amanda Gorman's book of poetry, Call Us What We Carry was published on December 7th, 2021 by Viking Books. It became a NY Times instant bestseller! Learn more and purchase your ... [Read More]
Eula Biss
Eula Biss is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had, which Cathy Park Hong calls “a revelatory and necessary primer on how late capitalism affects our daily lives.” Biss holds an ... [Read More]
Matthieu Aikins
Matthieu Aikins has reported from Afghanistan and the Middle East since 2008 for magazines such as The New Yorker, Harper’s, and GQ. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a ... [Read More]
PEN/MAN/SHIP opens April 16
Written by Christina Anderson, directed by Lucie Tiberghien Performed live with breakthrough technology and expansive visuals that put the audience aboard a troubled vessel, pen/man/ship is a ... [Read More]
The Arsonists’ City
Visiting Fellow Hala Alyan’s family epic, The Arsonists’ City, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on March 9th, 2021. Learn more and purchase your copy HERE ... [Read More]
Care of Strangers wins the Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize…
Ellen Michaelson’s novella, The Care of Strangers wins the Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize. This moving story about vulnerability and friendship has earned critical praise since its release. “An ... [Read More]
Conflicted
Visiting Fellow, Ian Leslie’s timely new book, Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes, was released by Harper’s Business on February 23rd, 2021. Learn more and purchase your ... [Read More]
P.J. McKay, 2020 First Page Prize Winner
New Zealand author P. J. McKay, won with the opening of her historical novel, The Telling Time (Polako Press, 2020). She is now represented by Highspot Literary and was shortlisted for the 2020 NZSA ... [Read More]
Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman made history in 2017 by being named the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate in the United States and again in 2020 When she read her poem The Hill We Climb at the US Presidential ... [Read More]
Mark Braude
Mark Braude has written for The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail and other publications, and has spoken at venues including the US Department of State, the Volkswagen Automotive ... [Read More]
Geraldine Brooks
Australian-born Geraldine Brooks grew up in Sydney. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Mideast, Africa and the Balkans. ... [Read More]
Global Potential becomes YES Akademia
In 2016, Global Potential changed its name to YES Akademia. YES Akademia provides high-potential urban and rural youth from low-income communities with the leadership and social entrepreneurial skills ... [Read More]
Library in Nianiar
2016 updates from Nianiar | Photos - July through September The Project (content used from a document Louise Huang, from Yes Akademia, wrote to Clydette de Groot) Nianiar is a village of around ... [Read More]
Born Into This
In addition, Born Into This won an Audience Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival and has been selected to be part of the Columbia University Showcase at DOC NYC. Sean Ryon and Lea Zora Scruggs are ... [Read More]
Angela Finn wins the 2020 Desperate Literature Short Story Prize
Winner: Angela Finn wins the 2020 Desperate Literature Short Story Prize for Excerpts from a Pale Blue Notebook with Silver Stars. Runners-up: Jelle Cauwenberghs for Bottles and Jenah Shaw for ... [Read More]
From a Nina Stulp Recipient
I challenge my students almost every day with something new and exciting. My high school students actually built most of my demos for their middle school counterparts, and I am proud to tell people ... [Read More]
An interview with C.E. Smith
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, C.E. Smith studied English at Stanford and medicine at Vanderbilt. His short stories have appeared The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review,The Carolina Quarterly, and ... [Read More]
The International Fine Art Photography Award
Part of moving forward as a photographic artist is exhibiting your work, seeing your images presented in quality publications, and having your work seen by curators, gallery owners, and collectors. ... [Read More]
Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan is an award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner and Colorado ... [Read More]