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Jennifer Chen

March 11, 2024

Underground Chinatown (Historical Fiction), Los Angeles, CA Underground Chinatown is an historical fiction novel set in the 1900s to 1980s in which all Chinatowns in California are connected by ... [Read More]

Jason Prokowiew

March 11, 2024

War Boys: a Father and Son Memoir (Memoir), Wales, MA War Boys tells of my Russian father’s adoption by the Nazis who murdered his family during WWII, and the trauma he carried into parenthood. ... [Read More]

Ibtisam Barakat

March 11, 2024

A Palestinian Love Story (Memoir), Columbia, MO A Palestinian memoir of rarely-known realities of college life under military occupation in the West Bank on a campus full of refugees.  “I hope ... [Read More]

George Walker Torres

March 11, 2024

Low Sky, Narrow Earth (Screenplay), São Paulo, BRAZIL A Venezuelan immigrant living in São Paulo falls in love with a Syrian refugee who mysteriously disappears and embarks on a search that will lead ... [Read More]

emet ezell

March 11, 2024

Sabile (Poetry), Berlin, GERMANY Sabile maps the forgotten deportations of Latvian Jews by the Russian Empire. Combining poetry, prophecy, and family archives, ezell summons the ghosts of forced ... [Read More]

Ellen Denny

March 11, 2024

Project Qyzra (Stage play), Toronto, Ontario, CANADA Project Qyzra is a solo stage play in which I try to piece together the immigration case that led to my friend Qyzra’s deportation. “I ... [Read More]

Elena Dudum

March 11, 2024

I Was Told Back Home Would Be Beautiful (Nonfiction), New York, NY I Was Told Back Home Would Be Beautiful explores how the inheritance of the Palestinian refugee experience shapes Palestinians ... [Read More]

DK Nnuro

March 11, 2024

Thief-man thief Thief-man (Novel), Iowa City, IA Thief-man thief Thief-man is a literary art-heist novel about a Ghanaian immigrant whose last-ditch effort to achieve the so-called American Dream ... [Read More]

Clementina Ojie

March 11, 2024

Jàpà (Screenplay), New York, NY After receiving admission to a U.S. university, a Nigerian teenager is forced to turn to a loan shark to raise money for his visa. “I hope this film fosters ... [Read More]

Elizabeth C. Wellington

March 11, 2024

The Asylum Seekers (Creative Nonfiction), Wellesley, MA Testimonials and stories of asylum seekers in ICE detention centers captured by an immigration interpreter reveal unconscionable abuses in the ... [Read More]

Angelica Allen

March 11, 2024

Matriarch (Novel), Encinitas, CA Matriarch tells the tall tale of modern Iran through three generations of mothers and daughters coping with the challenges of immigration, identity, and inherited ... [Read More]

Ali Maza

March 11, 2024

Only The Good Ones (Graphic Novel), Queens, NY Two teenage girls meet in a shelter for asylum seekers, forming a friendship while the flaws of America's immigration system threaten to derail their ... [Read More]

Pen Parentis March Literary Salon

March 3, 2024

Join PEN PARENTIS on March 12th at 7pm ET for their "Searching for Meaning" event! The conversation will be with Terese Svoboda, Kate Schmier, and Amanda Galvan Huynh! RSVP here. On the second ... [Read More]

Patricia Lockwood is a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at The American Library in Paris.

February 15, 2024

Patricia Lockwood is a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at the American Library in Paris. She has two events coming up: (Hybrid) Patricia Lockwood, Writing Now: A Conversation Tuesday, March 26 at 19 h ... [Read More]

Patricia Lockwood

February 15, 2024

Patricia Lockwood is the author of four books, including the 2021 novel “No One Is Talking About This,” an international bestseller, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, finalist for the Booker Prize, ... [Read More]

Christian Elder’s Short Film “Polyvore” is out!

February 15, 2024

Congratulations to 2022 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Christian Elder for the release of his short film, "Polyvore"! "Polyvore" is a comedic short film Christian Elder and Jessica Mathews made ... [Read More]

Publication News: Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins”

February 15, 2024

Congratulations to 2023 LANDO Writer of Note Lauren Markham for the publication of her novel, A Map of Future Ruins! She received a LANDO grant for this project one year ago, and went on to secure ... [Read More]

2024 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship

February 15, 2024

Applications close April 1st, 2024. The Visiting Fellowship offers writers and researchers an opportunity to pursue a creative project in Paris for a month or longer while participating actively in ... [Read More]

Molly O’Toole Reflects on her 2023 LANDO Grant

February 1, 2024

2023 LANDO Grantee Molly O'Toole says, "Thanks to the support of the LANDO grant, other things have also fallen into place, and I've been able to do crucial reporting in South Asia and Latin ... [Read More]

Monique Hayes Remarks on her 2022 COURAGE to WRITE Grant

February 1, 2024

2022 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee Monique Hayes says, “I never would've applied to these grants without The de Groot Foundation's support of my novel. Now four other organizations are behind the project ... [Read More]

Akilah Wise Remarks on Receiving a Grant

January 18, 2024

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Akilah Wise says "This funding helped me secure another writing residency to help find much-needed time and space to revise my novel." Thinking about applying ... [Read More]

Alfredo Aguilar Reflects on his Writer of Note Grant

January 18, 2024

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Alfredo Aguilar says he's " been very appreciative of the time the grant allowed to carve out for my book.” Thinking about applying for a grant in the 2024 ... [Read More]

Permafrost

January 10, 2024

COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Gary V. Powell's poetry book Permafrost was published by Finishing Line Press in June 2023. Learn more and purchase your copy HERE ... [Read More]

Poems for Employees

January 10, 2024

COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Morris McLennan's debut poetry chapbook, Poems for Employees, was published by Bottlecap Press in January 2024. Learn more and purchase your copy HERE ... [Read More]

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Investing in Writers & the Literary Arts

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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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