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Nikesha Elise Williams

April 25, 2023

The Seven Daughters of Dupree (Historical Fiction), Jacksonville, FL The Seven Daughters of Dupree is a historical fiction novel about the secrets kept between mothers and daughters over the ... [Read More]

Morris McLennan

April 25, 2023

The Shapeshifters (Fiction), Chicago, IL The Shapeshifters is a novel about railways and billionaires and transgender people and love and ghosts and the Midwest United States. "I want people ... [Read More]

Melissa Chan

April 25, 2023

You Must Take Part in Revolution (Graphic Novel), Co-author: Badiucao, Berlin, GERMANY You Must Take Part in Revolution, by Melissa Chan and Badiucao, is a speculative fiction set in a ... [Read More]

Joshua Aiken

April 25, 2023

Wear a Clean Second Face (Poetry), New Haven, CT Wear a Clean Second Face is a project focused on the paradoxes of American football: owners, profit, and spectacle; brutality, cognition, & ... [Read More]

Gary V. Powell

April 25, 2023

Men in Love: Stories (Short Fiction), Cornelius, NC Men in Love: Stories is linked by the theme of “men in love.” And not only romantic love between a man and woman, but also a man's love for his ... [Read More]

Eva Freeman

April 25, 2023

Jericho (Historical Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Jericho, During the dawn of African independence, Franklin Williams, a great champion of the race, will also participate in one of its greatest ... [Read More]

Emily Hockaday

April 25, 2023

Blood Music (Poetry), Queens, NY Blood Music braids together pregnancy and childbirth, a father’s diagnosis and death from ALS, and a loved one’s addiction crisis. "I aim to reach readers ... [Read More]

Cocoa Michelle Williams

April 25, 2023

Syrup (Poetry), Marietta, GA Syrup explores the myriad ways in which Black women have embraced radical self-definition in the face of the flatness of stereotype and dehumanizing ... [Read More]

Christina Chiu

April 25, 2023

Faith in a Time of No God (Nonfiction Memoir), New York, NY As a mother of a medically-fragile child, Chiu’s Failing to Thrive: A Story about Race and Gender Bias in Medicine speaks to how ... [Read More]

Christina Wood

April 25, 2023

Escapes (Fiction), Athens, GA Escapes follows four female characters on the brink of enormous life change as symptoms of climate change begin to manifest in their own town. “My hope is ... [Read More]

Caren Lissner

April 25, 2023

How We Became Homeless: A Cringy Chronicle of Downward Mobility (Memoir/Creative Nonfiction), Hoboken, NJ How We Became Homeless: A Cringy Chronicle of Downward Mobility is a coming of age memoir ... [Read More]

Brian Malloy

April 25, 2023

In the Boundary Waters (Novel), Minneapolis, MN One night in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Wilderness, drunken locals threaten a family of campers in an incident that reveals the fault lines ... [Read More]

Anndee Hochman

April 25, 2023

My Plural Is People (Young Adult Novel), PA In My Plural is People, teenagers Zach and Khady, best friends since pre-school, embark on an impulsive winter-break quest to learn the truth about ... [Read More]

Amanda Mei Kim

April 25, 2023

Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land (Nonfiction Memoir), San Mateo, CA Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land explores ... [Read More]

Alona Kharina

April 25, 2023

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 mental disorder, identity in the ancestral, cosmic, and physical aspects. “I ... [Read More]

Alfredo Aguilar

April 25, 2023

Yield to No Country (Poetry), Lockhart, TX Yield to No Country is a collection of poems that chronicles the intersecting histories of increased militarization on the U.S/Mexico border alongside ... [Read More]

Akilah Wise

April 25, 2023

Daughters of Dahomey (Young Adult Fiction), Atlanta, GA Daughters of Dahomey is about a teenager who realizes her full power as a fighter for justice in this coming-of-age story about magic, ... [Read More]

Stephanie Cuepo Wobby

April 25, 2023

To the Other Side of the Sea (Nonfiction Memoir), Milton, VT To the Other Side of the Sea is a memoir about silence, inheritance, and belonging against the backdrop of the Philippines and the ... [Read More]

Sahar Delijani

April 25, 2023

The Luminous Blue (Literary Fiction), New York, NY The Luminous Blue explores life in a dictatorship, the inheritance of loss and trauma and the way we survive by the stories we tell. “I hope ... [Read More]

Ryan D. Matthews

April 25, 2023

Country Music (Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Country Music, three students struggle within their impoverished rural community when a school shooting—perpetrated by one of the boys—leaves survivors ... [Read More]

Max Watman

April 25, 2023

Tomorrow, the War (Historical Fiction/Literary Fiction), Powhatan, VA Tomorrow, the War is about the adventures of the outlaw Jed Stokes, and his relationship with the formerly enslaved Bodkin ... [Read More]

Lydia Kim

April 25, 2023

The Divers (Novel), San Francisco Bay Area, CA The Divers explores the struggle of breaking painful cycles when misogyny, self-exile, and unacknowledged trauma create gulfs between generations, ... [Read More]

Leila Christine Nadir

April 25, 2023

Afghan Americana: An Intimate Geopolitical Memoir (Literary Memoir), Farmington, ME Afghan Americana is a lyrical geopolitical investigation and a coming-of-age story of the wars that rage within ... [Read More]

Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham

April 25, 2023

What Time Is It Mr. Wolf? (Literary Fiction/Horror), Copenhagen, DENMARK What Time Is It Mr. Wolf? is a mythologized account of Craigwell-Graham's uncle's struggle with mental illness as a young ... [Read More]

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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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