Grants for Writers

Meet Kim Watson, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on his creative nonfiction project, Searching for Zora (Neale Hurston) - The State of Poverty in America Today. A cross-country ... [Read More]

Meet David Philip Mullins, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on his novel, The Houndsman. The Houndsman follows big-game hunter Jesse Tindol on her quest to locate a missing child in ... [Read More]

Meet Alex Cain, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her historical fiction novel, The Body in the Greenhouse. The Body in the Greenhouse, a mystery set at Harvard in 1948, explores ... [Read More]

Congratulations to Winshen for winning the Driftwood Press Adrift Chapbook Contest! A number of the poems from this chapbook were a part of Winshen's COURAGE to WRITE application. Congratulations on a ... [Read More]

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 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]

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]

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]

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]

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]