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The Nutcracker Chronicles

September 6, 2024

COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Janine Kovac's fairytale memoir, The Nutcracker Chronicles, was published by She Writes Press on November 12, 2024. Learn more and order your copy! ... [Read More]

Cora Currier Explores the War on Terror

August 19, 2024

Meet Cora Currier, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her novel, Some Types of Intelligence. Some Types of Intelligence is a novel about the war on terror — about Afghanistan, ... [Read More]

Abdelrahman ElGendy Grapples With Erasure

August 19, 2024

Meet Abdelrahman ElGendy, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE grantee working on his memoir, We Write on Walls. We Write on Walls is a memoir that grapples, through the lens of a six-year political ... [Read More]

May Lee-Yang Centers Hmong Women Protagonists

August 19, 2024

Meet May Lee-Yang, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her short story collection, The Happy Life. The Happy Life is a collection of short stories that center Hmong women protagonists ... [Read More]

Bloom

August 19, 2024

COURAGE to WRITE Grantee Leah Whitcomb's poetry collection, Bloom, was published by Starclay Publishing on June 11th, 2024. Learn more and purchase your own copy! ... [Read More]

Congratulations Zoë Bossiere!

August 9, 2024

Congratulations to Zoë Bossiere, the 2021 First Pages Prize Readers' Pick for the release of their book, Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir. Bossiere's debut chronicles their experiences growing up ... [Read More]

Congratulations Pallavi Sharma Dixit!

August 9, 2024

Congratulations to Pallavi Sharma Dixit, one of the 2023 First Pages Prize winners for the release of her book, Edison. Edison is a Bollywood-style love story brimming with song and dance, action ... [Read More]

Anna Louie Sussman Explores the Hostility of Reproduction Under Capitalism

August 7, 2024

Meet Anna Louie Sussman, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her nonfiction book, Inconceivable: Reproduction in an Age of Uncertainty. Inconceivable: Reproduction in an Age of ... [Read More]

Anthony Aycock Investigates Book Banning in the Legal System

August 7, 2024

Meet Anthony Aycock, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on his nonfiction book, Just Plain Filthy: The Life and Times of Book Banning's Trial of the Century. Just Plain Filthy is the ... [Read More]

Kenyatta D. Berry Ignites a Plea for Equality and Justice

August 7, 2024

Meet Kenyatta D. Berry, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her nonfiction book, The Price of Freedom. Embark on a journey, discovering the overlooked African American narratives from ... [Read More]

Congratulations 2024 First Pages Prize Winners!

August 7, 2024

Congratulations to the 2024 Creative Nonfiction Winners Julie Moon, Sarah Giragosian, and Starr Davis, and Fiction Winners Sandy Nietling, Stephanie Ramlogan, and Hope Kokot, as well as Sandra ... [Read More]

Sukie Wilson Wins 2024 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize!

August 7, 2024

Congratulations to Sukie Wilson, winner of the 2024 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, for "Leaving Night Country". ‘From the first paragraph, "Leaving Night Country" catches us with its ... [Read More]

First Pages Prize Fiction Shortlist

July 26, 2024

Congratulations to the ten writers selected for the First Pages Prize Fiction Shortlist! Congratulations Megan Lui, Joanna Theiss, Prachi Kamble, Megan Ritchie, Sandy Nietling, K.D. Walker, Hope ... [Read More]

First Pages Prize Creative Nonfiction Shortlist

July 26, 2024

Congratulations to the nine writers selected for the First Pages Prize for Creative Nonfiction Shortlist! Congratulations Wiam El-Tamami, Jiadai Lin, Katerina Vasiliou, Siavash Saadlou, Julie Moon, ... [Read More]

Stanley Gordon looks at relationships between men and their mental well-being

July 22, 2024

Meet Stanley Gordon, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee working on his stage play, OFFICE (Nut). A frantic psycho-dramatic magical-realist comedy, OFFICE (Nut) explores tumultuous internal ... [Read More]

Erica Blumfield explores the highs and lows of living with bipolar disorder

July 22, 2024

Meet Erica Blumfield, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her memoir, Starring Erica Blumfield. Bipolar convinces Erica her life is a reality TV show, in a memoir weaving NYC’s music ... [Read More]

Pepper Auerbach navigates the surreality of psychosis

July 22, 2024

Pepper Auerbach, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on their graphic memoir, My Brain Itches! My Brain Itches! follows a young boy named Pepper, as he navigates living with the ... [Read More]

Elizabeth C. Wellington Shares Asylum Seeker’s Stories

July 17, 2024

Congratulations to Elizabeth C. Wellington, one of our 2024 LANDO Writers of Note, for her work of creative nonfiction, The Asylum Seekers. Testimonials and stories of asylum seekers in ICE ... [Read More]

DK Nnuro Published in Ploughshares

July 15, 2024

"Minstrelin" by 2024 LANDO Writer of Note DK Nnuro is published in Ploughshares' Summer 2024 Issue! Guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, the issue features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, ... [Read More]

Tanvi Misra Explains How Borders Affect the Body

July 15, 2024

Congratulations to Tanvi Misra, one of our 2024 LANDO Writers of Note, for her nonfiction work The Body Political: How Borders Affect the Human Body. Borders surveil, map, inspect and ultimately ... [Read More]

Stephanie DeGooyer Explores the Global Asylum System

July 15, 2024

Congratulations to Stephanie DeGooyer, one of our 2024 LANDO Grantees, for her nonfiction work Offshore: The Rise and Fall of Asylum. Offshore: The Rise and Fall of Asylum foretells the unraveling ... [Read More]

Meet the 2024-25 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellows

July 10, 2024

Congratulations to the 2024-25 Visiting Fellows & Scholars of Note! The AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS Visiting Fellowship Program is sponsored by The de Groot Foundation, and provides writers with ... [Read More]

A. Kendra Greene

July 10, 2024

A. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist based in Dallas. She is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, first published by Penguin and Granta, and now translated ... [Read More]

Melissa Febos

July 10, 2024

Melissa Febos is the nationally bestselling author of four books, most recently, Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal ... [Read More]

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