2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Christina Wood, Escapes (Fiction), Athens, GA Escapes follows four female characters on the brink of enormous life change as ... [Read More]
Grants for Writers
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Christina Chiu speaks on “the implications of race and gender bias in medicine.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Christina Chiu, Failing to Thrive: A Story about Race and Gender Bias in Medicine (Nonfiction Memoir) As a mother of a ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Leila Christine Nadir’s work “connects global geopolitics and intimate violences that reverberate across the planet”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Leila Christine Nadir, Afghan Americana: An Intimate Geopolitical Memoir (Literary Memoir) Afghan Americana is a lyrical geopolitical investigation ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Caren Lissner hopes her work “educates, inspires, entertains.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Caren Lissner, Wise Fool (Memoir/Creative Nonfiction) Wise Fool is a coming of age memoir set in the 1980s-2000s amid family ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Max Watman “immerses readers in a world other than their own”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Max Watman, Tomorrow, the War (Historical Fiction/Literary Fiction) Tomorrow, the War is about the adventures of the outlaw Jed Stokes, and his ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Brian Malloy “reminds readers of our common humanity.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Brian Malloy, In the Boundary Waters (Novel) One night in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Wilderness, drunken locals threaten a family ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Stephanie Cuepo Wobby discusses “the inextricable ties between military service and intergenerational trauma”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Stephanie Cuepo Wobby, To the Other Side of the Sea (Nonfiction Memoir) To the Other Side of the Sea is a memoir about silence, inheritance, and ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Anndee Hochman “wants readers to come away feeling more connected and less alone”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Anndee Hochman, My Plural Is People (Young Adult Novel) In My Plural is People, teenagers Zach and Khady, best friends since ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Sahar Delijani “depicts the power of storytelling”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Sahar Delijani, The Luminous Blue (Literary Fiction) The Luminous Blue explores life in a dictatorship, the inheritance of loss and trauma and the ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Amanda Mei Kim “explores the love that rural Californians of color have for the land and each other.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Amanda Mei Kim, Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land (Nonfiction Memoir) Intercalifornias: A ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Ryan D. Matthews’ “work probes the prohibitory bonds of masculinity”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Ryan D. Matthews, Country Music (Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Country Music, three students struggle within their impoverished rural community when a ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Alona Kharina writes “for people facing forced immigration”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Alona Kharina, No One is Home (Essays), Sumy, UKRAINE No One is Home is about loss of home and looking for a new one, memory as a ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Writer of Note Awardee Vanessa Hua’s work “illuminates untold stories”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Vanessa Hua, El Nido (Novel), San Francisco Bay Area, CA In El Nido, the fates of four families collide, illuminating the nature of territory, predators and ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Lydia Kim’s stories “illuminate the ways people create wholeness from pieces.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Lydia Kim, The Divers (Novel), San Francisco Bay Area, CA The Divers explores the struggle of breaking painful cycles when misogyny, self-exile, ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Alfredo Aguilar hopes “we might imagine a future without the cruelty of militarized boundaries.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Alfredo Aguilar, Yield to No Country (Poetry), Lockhart, TX Yield to No Country is a collection of poems that chronicles the ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Writer of Note Awardee Seth Berkman’s work “prioritizes that immigrants, the future of this country, receive a quality and fair education.”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Seth Berkman, Piners and Prophets: One American Town’s Radical Transformation (Nonfiction), New York, NY Piners and Prophets: One American Town's Radical ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Writer of Note Awardee Lauren Markham’s work “grapples with the violence of borders”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Lauren Markham, A Map of Future Ruins (Nonfiction), Berkeley, CA A Map of Future Ruins explores the myths of global migration past and present. “I hope ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Ja’net Danielo’s “poetry centers the sick, disabled, aging female body”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Ja'net Danielo, Migration (Poetry), Long Beach, CA Migration grapples with what it means not just to survive cancer but to be truly alive. "I ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Akilah Wise hopes “at least one child can read this hero story and see themselves in a new, powerful way.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Akilah Wise, Daughters of Dahomey (Young Adult Fiction), Atlanta Georgia Daughters of Dahomey is about a teenager who realizes her ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham “creates space and conversations to help others”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham, What Time Is It Mr. Wolf? (Literary Fiction/Horror), Copenhagen, DENMARK What Time Is It Mr. Wolf? is a mythologized ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Awardee Ben Mauk’s work “sparks a discussion about what is owed to communities living outside the state”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Benjamin Mauk, The Fugitive World (Nonfiction), Berlin, GERMANY The Fugitive World is a work of reportage profiling communities in margins and shatter zones ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Caroline Schmidt “explores madness and melancholy as a form of shapeshifting”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Caroline Schmidt, The Understudy (Novel), Phoenix, AZ The Understudy, a bildungsroman, follows Norwegian teen Matty Johansen as he moves between ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Awardee Summer Awad’s work “re-envisions our broken refugee resettlement system”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Summer Awad, No English, Swahili (Creative Nonfiction), Ames, IA The collected essays of No English, Swahili honor the refugees Awad worked with in ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Camille Wanliss “challenges the boundaries of Western culture”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: An Ornament and a Disgrace (Historical Novel), New York, NY An Ornament and a Disgrace is a novel about land and legacy set in 1960s ... [Read More]