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Elena Dudum Explores Palestinians in the Diaspora

July 1, 2024

Congratulations to Elena Dudum for becoming a 2024 LANDO grantee for her nonfiction work, I Was Told Back Home Would Be Beautiful. I Was Told Back Home Would Be Beautiful explores how the ... [Read More]

Thank You 2024 Visiting Fellows!

July 1, 2024

Thank you Adam Shatz and Christian Campbell for your thoughtful, poignant and inspiring conversations while Visiting Fellows. As soon as the videos are available, we will share the links. During ... [Read More]

Conversations with Patricia Lockwood

June 27, 2024

Watch writer-in-residence Patricia Lockwood's recent events at The American Library in Paris: Writing Now: A Conversation with Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood is a poet, memoirist, and novelist, ... [Read More]

Thank you Christian Campbell

June 21, 2024

for your thoughtful, poignant and inspiring conversations while a Visiting Fellow. As soon as we have the videos, we'll post them. Christian Campbell is the author of Running the Dusk (2010), which ... [Read More]

Stacy Schiff

June 20, 2024

Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of ... [Read More]

Abdelrahman ElGendy Wins the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press

June 20, 2024

2024 COURAGE to WRITE grantee Abdelrahman ElGendy is a winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press. Congratulations, Abdelrahman! ElGendy was awarded in the opinion piece category for ... [Read More]

Meet Visiting Fellow Adam Shatz

June 20, 2024

Join Adam Shatz on June 25th and June 26th for his hybrid events at the American Library in Paris. (Hybrid) In Focus: An Evening with Claire Denis and Adam Shatz Tue June 25 @ 19 h 30 - 20 h ... [Read More]

The Art of Biography: An Interview with Stacy Schiff

June 19, 2024

Watch recent writer in residence Stacy Schiff’s conversation with Elaine Sciolino on “The Art of Biography" HERE Learn more about Stacy Schiff Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer ... [Read More]

TRESPASS: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love and Understanding

May 30, 2024

COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Kim Watson's debut story collection, TRESPASS: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love and Understanding, was published by Broadleaf Books on May 14th, 2024. As seen ... [Read More]

Congratulations 2024 LANDO Grantees!

May 14, 2024

Congratulations to our grantees Elena Dudum, Stephanie DeGooyer, Yevheniia Dubrova, Beth C. Wellington, DK Nnuro, and Tanvi Misra! Learn more about this year's LANDO Grantees and their exciting ... [Read More]

Stacy Schiff at The American Library in Paris

April 30, 2024

Thank you, Stacy, for a great program on The Art of Biography at the American Library in Paris!   Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer ... [Read More]

Announcing the 2024 Writers of Note Grantees!

April 28, 2024

Congratulations to this year's COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Grantees: Alex Cain, Anna Louie Sussman, Anthony Aycock, Conor Bracken, Cora Currier, David Philip Mullins, Emmy Her Many Horses, Erica ... [Read More]

Announcing the 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantees!

April 28, 2024

We're delighted to announce this year's twelve COURAGE to WRITE grantees: Abdelrahman ElGendy, Amy Kennedy, Anthony Hudson, Azra Liaqat Khan, Emma Barrow, Julie Kim, Leo Ríos, Lisa Deangelis, Liz ... [Read More]

2024 First Pages Prize

April 17, 2024

Entries are now closed. First Pages Prize is thrilled that Edwidge Danticat will judge both fiction & creative nonfiction for the 2024 prize! Edwidge Danticat is the author of seventeen books, ... [Read More]

The Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction closes April 30th

April 15, 2024

The aim of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is to celebrate the best of new short fiction and give winners visibility for their writing. This prize works to give shortlisters the ... [Read More]

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]

Congratulations 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Finalists!

April 10, 2024

Thanks to all who applied for a COURAGE to WRITE grant this year. Your collective work explored a rich landscape from the challenges of trauma, mental health, disability and gender identity to ... [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]

Sophia Huneycutt

April 10, 2024

The House Built on Alligator Bones (Novel), Columbus, OH In The House Built on Alligator Bones, a woman pursues her inheritance—a Florida alligator farming empire—uncovering family secrets that ... [Read More]

Pepper Auerbach

April 10, 2024

My Brain Itches! (Graphic Novel/Memoir), Brooklyn, NY My Brain Itches! follows a young boy named Pepper, as he navigates living with the sometimes frightening surreality of his psychosis. “I ... [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]

Nishant Batsha

April 10, 2024

A Superfluous Man (Novel), Buffalo, NY A Superfluous Man explores what it means to care for children at this fraught moment, all while seeking out the fissures between our digital and analog ... [Read More]

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