2022 Courage to Write Awardees, Writers of Note & Finalists

Grant Awardees:

Campbell Walmsley Burn Rate (novel) Atlanta, GA Full Bio

Jefferey Spivey The Birthright of Sons (story collection) Urbandale, IA Full Bio

Joy Lanzendorfer The Bath School Disaster (novel) Petaluma, CA Full Bio

Leah Whitcomb Mississippi Girls (memoir) Port Charlotte, FL Full Bio

Michaeljulius Y. Idani Buxton (novel) Atlanta, GA Full Bio

Monique Hayes Sally Forth (historical novel) Fort Washington, MD Full Bio

Zahir Janmohamed The Permitted Hours (memoir) Portland, ME Full Bio

Writers of Note:

Christian Elder #NWORD (stage play) Toluca Lake, CA Full Bio

J.R. Patterson Truth: A Novel Manitoba, Canada Full Bio

Janine Kovac Proposition (novel) Oakland, CA Full Bio

Joanne Szilagyi The Guest People (novel) Oxford, UK Full Bio

John McLaughlin Sancocho Surprise (bilingual children’s book series) Seattle, WA Full Bio

Kate Tillery-Danzer Tilli Thompson and the Case of the Bog Bones (mid-grade novel) Superior, CO Full Bio

Linda Musita Immaculate Pandemic (novella) Nairobi, Kenya Full Bio

Masha Shukovich The Taste of Names (novel) Salt Lake City, UT Full Bio

Rodney Gomez Disarticulated Map (essays & poetry) McAllen, TX Full Bio

Finalists:

Andrée Lockwood The Calcoon Emerald (historical novel) NY, NY Full Bio

April Lim Joss Paper (poetry). Stillwater, OK Full Bio

Branden Boyer-White (memoir) Los Angeles, CA Full Bio

Ella Baron Interface (novel) London, UK Full Bio

Emily Hockaday Naming the Ghost (poetry) Glendale, NY Full Bio

Genevieve Gorback Kindergarten Court (children’s book) Orinda, CA Full Bio

Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz Something Like Happiness (novel) Las Cruces, NM Full Bio

Helene Epstein Catch Me When I Stumble (Narrative Non-fiction) Brooklyn, NY Full Bio

Jason Gordon Death Metal Yoga (poetry) Catonsville, MD Full Bio

Kelly Alblinger Idaho Falls (novel) Camarillo, CA Full Bio

Laura Tanenbaum (memoir) Burbank, CA Full Bio

MM DeVoe Only Child (novel) NY, NY Full Bio

Nick Gardner Cass, A Psychedelic Anti-Western (novel) Washington, DC Full Bio

Nishant Batsha A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart (novel) Buffalo, NY Full Bio

S.B. Ryther Wesley and the Exceptional Love (novel) Minneapolis, MN Full Bio

Sarah James Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen (novel) Los Angeles, CA Full Bio

Svetlana Satchkova Teeth (novel) Brooklyn NY Full Bio