2022 Courage to Write Grantees, Writers of Note & Finalists 2024 Courage to Write Grantees 2023 Courage to Write Grantees Grantees: 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