2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Christina Wood, Escapes (Fiction), Athens, GA Escapes follows four female characters on the brink of enormous life change as ... [Read More]
Meet the 2024 Pen Parentis Fellow
Congratulations to Taylor Hobbs, the 2024 Pen Parentis Fellow! The Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents is supported in part by The de Groot Foundation. The writing ... [Read More]
2023 First Pages Prize Winners Are Announced!
Congratulations to the 2023 First Pages Prize Winners! The First Pages Prize mission is to discover, recognize and encourage emerging voices through the annual creative nonfiction and fiction FIRST ... [Read More]
The American Library in Paris Scholar of Note Program Launches with Ladee Hubbard
Ladee Hubbard, will launch the Scholar of Note Program at The American Library in Paris Tuesday, September 26, 19:30-21:00 followed by a reception. Her presentation, Myth, Power and Genre provides ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Christina Chiu speaks on “the implications of race and gender bias in medicine.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Christina Chiu, Failing to Thrive: A Story about Race and Gender Bias in Medicine (Nonfiction Memoir) As a mother of a ... [Read More]
Congratulations to 2022 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Grant Awardee Linda Musita for her book publication, MTAMA ROAD!
Linda Musita's debut short story collection, Mtama Road, was published on August 4th by down river road, an independent publisher of books and journals based in Nairobi, Kenya. The cover art was ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Leila Christine Nadir’s work “connects global geopolitics and intimate violences that reverberate across the planet”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Leila Christine Nadir, Afghan Americana: An Intimate Geopolitical Memoir (Literary Memoir) Afghan Americana is a lyrical geopolitical investigation ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Caren Lissner hopes her work “educates, inspires, entertains.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Caren Lissner, Wise Fool (Memoir/Creative Nonfiction) Wise Fool is a coming of age memoir set in the 1980s-2000s amid family ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Max Watman “immerses readers in a world other than their own”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Max Watman, Tomorrow, the War (Historical Fiction/Literary Fiction) Tomorrow, the War is about the adventures of the outlaw Jed Stokes, and his ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Brian Malloy “reminds readers of our common humanity.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Brian Malloy, In the Boundary Waters (Novel) One night in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Wilderness, drunken locals threaten a family ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Stephanie Cuepo Wobby discusses “the inextricable ties between military service and intergenerational trauma”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Stephanie Cuepo Wobby, To the Other Side of the Sea (Nonfiction Memoir) To the Other Side of the Sea is a memoir about silence, inheritance, and ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Anndee Hochman “wants readers to come away feeling more connected and less alone”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Anndee Hochman, My Plural Is People (Young Adult Novel) In My Plural is People, teenagers Zach and Khady, best friends since ... [Read More]
Congratulations to 2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Grant Awardee Joshua Aiken for his book publication, TO BE IN & OF!
Joshua Aiken's debut poetry chapbook, to be in & of, is published by Palette Poetry. To learn more about 2023 Writer of Note Joshua, go to his featured page. To learn more about the chapbook ... [Read More]
Tess Lewis
Tess Lewis is an American translator, writer, and essayist. She is best known for her translation of French author Christine Angot's novel, Incest, which was nominated for the Best Translated Book ... [Read More]
Lauren Oyler
Lauren Oyler is an American author and critic based in Berlin, Germany. She has co-written two books with Alyssa Mastromonaco and has ghostwritten for other people as well. Her debut novel, Fake ... [Read More]
Vanessa Onwuemezi
Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. Her work has appeared in Granta, Prototype, frieze and Five Dials. Her story 'At the Heart of Things' won the White Review Short Story Prize ... [Read More]
Adam Shatz
Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author ... [Read More]
Christian Campbell
Christian Campbell is the author of Running the Dusk (2010), which won the UK’s Aldeburgh Prize, among other awards. Campbell studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his work has ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Sahar Delijani “depicts the power of storytelling”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Sahar Delijani, The Luminous Blue (Literary Fiction) The Luminous Blue explores life in a dictatorship, the inheritance of loss and trauma and the ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Amanda Mei Kim “explores the love that rural Californians of color have for the land and each other.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Amanda Mei Kim, Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land (Nonfiction Memoir) Intercalifornias: A ... [Read More]
to be in & of
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Joshua Aiken's debut poetry chapbook, to be in & of, was published by Palette Poetry on August 7th, 2023. ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Ryan D. Matthews’ “work probes the prohibitory bonds of masculinity”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Ryan D. Matthews, Country Music (Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Country Music, three students struggle within their impoverished rural community when a ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Alona Kharina writes “for people facing forced immigration”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Alona Kharina, No One is Home (Essays), Sumy, UKRAINE No One is Home is about loss of home and looking for a new one, memory as a ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Writer of Note Awardee Vanessa Hua’s work “illuminates untold stories”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Vanessa Hua, El Nido (Novel), San Francisco Bay Area, CA In El Nido, the fates of four families collide, illuminating the nature of territory, predators and ... [Read More]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Next Page »