New & Noteworthy

Coming soon: September 1, 2026! COURAGE to WRITE grantee Abdelrahman ElGendy's memoir, Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming, will be published by Hogarth / Penguin Random House. This is ... [Read More]

Coming soon: October 6, 2026! COURAGE to WRITE grantee Sophia Huneycutt's novel, The House Built on Alligator Bones, will be published by Dutton Books / Penguin Random House. This is especially ... [Read More]

Pre-order: October 15, 2026! COURAGE to WRITE grantee Anthony Hudson's book, Lamp Back: Plays and Other Grievances, will be published by Northwestern University Press! A major collection of ... [Read More]

Pre-order: October 27, 2026! LANDO grantee Elena Dudum's memoir, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful, will be published by One Signal / Simon & Schuster. This is especially exciting, as it ... [Read More]

On November 17, 2026, COURAGE to WRITE Grantee Azra Liaqat Khan’s memoir, Mona: An Immodest Memoir of Race and Rebellion will be published by Tiny Reparations, an imprint of Penguin Random House. This ... [Read More]

Out now: June 11, 2026! Director's Grant Recipient & COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Anthony Aycock's nonfiction book, Just Plain Filthy: The Story Behind Book Banning's Trial of the Century, was ... [Read More]

Published on June 2, 2026! American Library in Paris de Groot Visiting Fellow Rasheed Newson's novel, There's Only One Sin in Hollywood, was published by Flatiron Books. A cinematic, razor-sharp ... [Read More]

Published May 12, 2026! Director's Grant Recipient & LANDO grantee Vanessa Hua's novel, Coyoteland, was published by Flatiron Books. This is especially exciting, as this is the project for which ... [Read More]

Join Vanessa Hua on her book tour for Coyoteland, published on May 12th by Flatiron Books! This is especially exciting, as this is the project for which Vanessa was awarded both grants! See if ... [Read More]

Pre-order: September 8, 2026! Director's Grant Recipient & COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Anna Louie Sussman's nonfiction book, Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of ... [Read More]

Published on April 21, 2026! Director's Grant Recipient Patrick Strickland’s story collection, A History of Heartache, was published by Melville House. This is especially exciting, as it is the ... [Read More]

Published on March 24, 2026! Past American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Rhae Lynn Barnes' novel, Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment, was published by W.W. ... [Read More]

On March 3, 2026, Director's Grant Recipient Gary V. Powell's collection of stories, Men in Love, was published by Main Street Rag! Men in Love: Stories is linked by the theme of “men in love.” ... [Read More]

Published February 27, 2026! COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Anndee Hochman's nonfiction book, Parent Trip: Unexpected Roads to Form a Family, was published by Temple University Press. Frank, ... [Read More]

Published January 20, 2026! Past American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Mark Braude's novel, The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve ... [Read More]

Published January 27, 2026! Director's Grant Recipient Nikesha Elise William's novel, The Seven Daughters of Dupree, is now in bookstores, published by Scout Press! From the two-time Emmy ... [Read More]

Published on April 8, 2025, past American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Ian Leslie's novel, John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, came out with Celadon Books. John Lennon and Paul McCartney ... [Read More]

Published January 13th, 2026! COURAGE to WRITE finalist Svetlana Satchkova's novel, The Undead: A Novel of Modern Russia, was published by Melville House. In this gripping tale of contemporary ... [Read More]

Published January 6, 2026! COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Kenneth R. Rosen's work of nonfiction Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic is published by Simon ... [Read More]

Published January 6, 2026! COURAGE to WRITE grantee Max Watman's novel, Tomorrow, the War, was published by Heresy Press. This is especially exciting, as it is the project for which Max was awarded a ... [Read More]

Published on September 14th, 2025, COURAGE to WRITE grantee Amy Kennedy's collection of micro-essays, Vanishing Points: Words for Disappearing, was printed by Antenna Press. Vanishing Points: Words ... [Read More]

Published on August 26, 2025, past American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Ian Williams' novel, You've Changed, came out with Penguin Random House Canada. Middle-aged and about to be dumped from ... [Read More]

COURAGE to WRITE grantee Winshen Liu's poetry chapbook, Paper Money, was published by Driftwood Press on August 5, 2025. "Paper Money is a sensory and sparse exploration of grief and the complexity ... [Read More]