The de Groot Foundation

Investing in Writers & the Literary Arts

 

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Awesome Blossoms

October 20, 2023

The de Groot Foundation helps launch the FAWCO 2023-2025 Target Project with a $10,000 challenge grant. "Our Natural Environment, Empowering Women and Girls to Ensure a Sustainable Future" The ... [Read More]

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Eva Freeman’s “work creates empathy for the overlooked and the unheard.”

October 12, 2023

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Eva Freeman, Jericho (Historical Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Jericho, During the dawn of African independence, Franklin Williams, a ... [Read More]

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Emily Hockaday “highlights bodies changing and how love is inextricable from grief.”

October 12, 2023

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Emily Hockaday, Blood Music (Poetry), Queens, NY Blood Music braids together pregnancy and childbirth, a father’s diagnosis and ... [Read More]

Pen Parentis’ November Literary Salon

October 12, 2023

Join PEN PARENTIS on Tuesday, November 14th, at 7pm ET for their November Literary Salon on Collateral Damage! The conversation will be with Nancy Ludmerer, Michael Bourne, and Marina Budhos, and ... [Read More]

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Cocoa Michelle Williams “relishes in the joy of self-definition and collective Black women’s memory”

October 5, 2023

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Cocoa Michelle Williams, Syrup (Poetry), Marietta, GA Syrup explores the myriad ways in which Black women have embraced radical ... [Read More]

Map of Future Ruins

September 25, 2023

LANDO Grantee Lauren Markham's nonfiction novel, A Map of Future Ruins, was published by Riverhead Books on February 13th, 2024. Learn more and purchase your own copy! ... [Read More]

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Christina Wood offers “portraits of people retaining dignity through struggle”

September 22, 2023

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]

Hadley Franklin Wins 2023 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize!

September 5, 2023

Congratulations to Hadley Franklin, winner of the 2023 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, for her work Falling. Hadley Franklin holds an MFA in fiction from New York University’s Creative ... [Read More]

Meet the 2024 Pen Parentis Fellow

September 4, 2023

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 fellowship ... [Read More]

2023 First Pages Prize Winners Are Announced!

September 4, 2023

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

September 4, 2023

Ladee Hubbard, launched the Scholar of Note Program at The American Library in Paris on Tuesday, September 26, 19:30-21:00 followed by a reception. Her presentation, Myth, Power and Genre provided an ... [Read More]

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Christina Chiu speaks on “the implications of race and gender bias in medicine.”

August 30, 2023

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!

August 23, 2023

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”

August 23, 2023

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.”

August 23, 2023

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”

August 16, 2023

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.”

August 16, 2023

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”

August 9, 2023

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”

August 9, 2023

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!

August 7, 2023

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

August 4, 2023

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

August 4, 2023

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

August 4, 2023

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

August 4, 2023

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]

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Investing in Writers & the Literary Arts

The de Groot Foundation

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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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