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]
Mtama Road
COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Linda Musita's book, Mtama Road, was published by down river road on August 4th, 2023. Learn more and order your own copy HERE. ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Lydia Kim’s stories “illuminate the ways people create wholeness from pieces.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Lydia Kim, The Divers (Novel), San Francisco Bay Area, CA The Divers explores the struggle of breaking painful cycles when misogyny, self-exile, ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Alfredo Aguilar hopes “we might imagine a future without the cruelty of militarized boundaries.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Alfredo Aguilar, Yield to No Country (Poetry), Lockhart, TX Yield to No Country is a collection of poems that chronicles the ... [Read More]
membery
COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Grant Awardee Preeti Kaur Rajpal's debut book of poetry, membery, was published by Tupelo Press on November 1, 2023. Learn more and order your copy HERE ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Writer of Note Awardee Lauren Markham’s work “grapples with the violence of borders”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Lauren Markham, A Map of Future Ruins (Nonfiction), Berkeley, CA A Map of Future Ruins explores the myths of global migration past and present. “I hope ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Ja’net Danielo’s “poetry centers the sick, disabled, aging female body”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Ja'net Danielo, Migration (Poetry), Long Beach, CA Migration grapples with what it means not just to survive cancer but to be truly alive. "I ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Akilah Wise hopes “at least one child can read this hero story and see themselves in a new, powerful way.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Akilah Wise, Daughters of Dahomey (Young Adult Fiction), Atlanta Georgia Daughters of Dahomey is about a teenager who realizes her ... [Read More]
The American Library in Paris 2023-24 Visiting Fellows are Announced!
Congratulations to the 2023-24 Visiting Fellows! The AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS Visiting Fellowship Program is sponsored by The de Groot Foundation, and provides writers with the ability to pursue a ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham “creates space and conversations to help others”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham, What Time Is It Mr. Wolf? (Literary Fiction/Horror), Copenhagen, DENMARK What Time Is It Mr. Wolf? is a mythologized ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Awardee Ben Mauk’s work “sparks a discussion about what is owed to communities living outside the state”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Benjamin Mauk, The Fugitive World (Nonfiction), Berlin, GERMANY The Fugitive World is a work of reportage profiling communities in margins and shatter zones ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Caroline Schmidt “explores madness and melancholy as a form of shapeshifting”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Caroline Schmidt, The Understudy (Novel), Phoenix, AZ The Understudy, a bildungsroman, follows Norwegian teen Matty Johansen as he moves between ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Awardee Summer Awad’s work “re-envisions our broken refugee resettlement system”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Summer Awad, No English, Swahili (Creative Nonfiction), Ames, IA The collected essays of No English, Swahili honor the refugees Awad worked with in ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Camille Wanliss “challenges the boundaries of Western culture”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: An Ornament and a Disgrace (Historical Novel), New York, NY An Ornament and a Disgrace is a novel about land and legacy set in 1960s ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Awardee Molly O’Toole’s work “forces readers to see migrants as human”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Molly O'Toole, THE ROUTE: The untold story of the new migrant underground (Nonfiction), Washington DC The Route: The untold story of the new migrant ... [Read More]
FAWCO Awesome Blossoms Safe Spaces Project
The de Groot Foundation helps launch the FAWCO 2023-2025 Target Project with a $10,000 challenge grant. The goal of the FAWCO Target Project is: "Empowering Women and Girls to Ensure a Sustainable ... [Read More]
Upcoming Event by Spring Fellow Adrienne Raphel
Adrienne Raphel, the current Visiting Fellow at the American Library In Paris, has an upcoming event! The event will be in person at the American Library and online. The Visiting Fellowships are ... [Read More]
The Birthright of Sons
COURAGE to WRITE Grantee, Jefferey Spivey's short story collection, The Birthright of Sons, was published by Texas Tech University Press on January 9, 2024. Learn more and purchase your copy HERE ... [Read More]
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough
American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Dina Nayeri's book, Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough, was published by Catapult in March 2023. Learn more and purchase your copy HERE ... [Read More]
Congratulations COURAGE to WRITE Grant Awardees!
Congratulations to the 2023 COURAGE to WRITE Grant Awardees! Thank you for sharing your inspiring projects with us. We're delighted that Camille Wanliss, Caroline Schmidt, Ja'net Danielo, Jeannetta ... [Read More]
Congratulations Writer of Note Awardees!
Congratulations to the 2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Grant Awardees! Thank you for sharing your inspiring projects with us. We're delighted that Akilah Wise, Alfredo Aguliar, Alona Kharina, ... [Read More]
Shelley Stoehr
Girls! Girls! Girls! (Creative Nonfiction), West Haven, CT In Girls! Girls! Girls!, a recent college graduate struggles to make it as an artist while working as a stripper in 1990s New York and ... [Read More]
Sakinah Hofler
Stable (Novel), Newark, NJ Situated in Newark, NJ, Stable follows a young, Black woman who is trying to escape the world of forced prostitution and make a better life for herself and her ... [Read More]
Preeti Kaur Rajpal
membery (Poetry), Minneapolis, MN In membery, Rajpal uses the tool of memory to write about Historic India’s Partition woven with the experience of Sikhs in America in the post-9/11 era. "I ... [Read More]