Meet Nishant Batsha, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on his novel, A Superfluous Man. A Superfluous Man explores what it means to care for children at this fraught moment, all while ... [Read More]

Meet Conor Bracken, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on his poetry collection, Our Children and the War Grow Big Enough to Learn Each Other's Names. Our Children and the War Grow Big ... [Read More]

Meet Liz Breen, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee working on her memoir, Ungroomed. Ungroomed explores the erotic charge often present in pedagogy and how, for many young women, this charge can lead ... [Read More]

Meet Azra Liaqat Khan, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee working on her memoir, Mona: The Memoir of a Muslim Stripper. Mona: The Memoir of a Muslim Stripper recounts a professor’s years working in ... [Read More]

Meet Leo Ríos, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee working on his short story collection, Carta Blanca. A Mexican-American teenager journeys from California’s Central Valley to Los Angeles and must ... [Read More]

Meet Karolina Letunova, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her novel, Siberian Summer. Spanning a century in Western Siberia and two weeks in WA state, Siberian Summer is about ... [Read More]

Meet Winshen Liu, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee working on her poetry collection, Moonful. Moonful is a poetry collection about everyday moments of longing and continued negotiations of home and ... [Read More]

Meet Julia Zarankin, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her novel, The Babushka Beauty Pageant. Three generations of strong, opinionated women from Ukraine wind up in Canada where ... [Read More]

 Meet Karla Cordero, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her poetry collection, Chillona / Crybaby. Chillona/Crybaby is a collection of poems documenting the impact of chronic illness ... [Read More]

Meet Sophia Huneycutt, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee working on her novel, The House Built on Alligator Bones. In The House Built on Alligator Bones, a woman pursues her inheritance—a Florida ... [Read More]

Meet Julie Kim, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE grantee working on her memoir, To Raise Wonderful Hell. In To Raise Wonderful Hell, a mother reconciles her ableist upbringing with a commitment to ... [Read More]

Meet Natasha Driscoll, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her novel, High Yellow. In High Yellow, Tamera, a biracial girl navigates her life; learning how race, colorism and popularity ... [Read More]

 Meet Emma Barrow, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee working on her screenplay, Other Plans. In Other Plans, a Cherokee woman fights to protect her niece from an unlawful adoption by her white ... [Read More]

Meet Anthony Hudson, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee working on his memoir, Looking for Tiger Lily. An Indigiqueer artist grows up seeing redface in Peter Pan and pop culture—until finding true ... [Read More]

Meet Amy Kennedy, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE grantee working on her nonfiction book, Vanishing Points: Words for Disappearing. Vanishing Points: Words for Disappearing. is a collection of micro-essays ... [Read More]

Meet Kenneth R. Rosen, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on his nonfiction book, Land of the North Winds. Land of the North Wind (Simon & Schuster, 2025) takes readers across the ... [Read More]

Meet Emmy Her Many Horses, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her climate fiction book, The Remembering In The Remembering, Čuŋksi suddenly hears a voice in her head telling of the ... [Read More]