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]
Grants for Writers
Cora Currier Explores the War on Terror
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]
Abdelrahman ElGendy Grapples With Erasure
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]
May Lee-Yang Centers Hmong Women Protagonists
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]
Anna Louie Sussman Explores the Hostility of Reproduction Under Capitalism
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]
Anthony Aycock Investigates Book Banning in the Legal System
Meet Anthony Aycock, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on his nonfiction book, Just Plain Filthy: The Life and Times of Book Banning's Trial of the Century. Just Plain Filthy is the ... [Read More]
Kenyatta D. Berry Ignites a Plea for Equality and Justice
Meet Kenyatta D. Berry, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her nonfiction book, The Price of Freedom. Embark on a journey, discovering the overlooked African American narratives from ... [Read More]
Erica Blumfield explores the highs and lows of living with bipolar disorder
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Elizabeth C. Wellington Shares Asylum Seeker’s Stories
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DK Nnuro Published in Ploughshares
"Minstrelin" by 2024 LANDO Writer of Note DK Nnuro is published in Ploughshares' Summer 2024 Issue! Guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, the issue features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, ... [Read More]
Tanvi Misra Explains How Borders Affect the Body
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Stephanie DeGooyer Explores the Global Asylum System
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Yevheniia Dubrova Spans Ukraine’s History and Displacement
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Elena Dudum Explores Palestinians in the Diaspora
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Abdelrahman ElGendy Wins the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press
2024 COURAGE to WRITE grantee Abdelrahman ElGendy is a winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press. Congratulations, Abdelrahman! ElGendy was awarded in the opinion piece category for ... [Read More]
Announcing the 2024 Writers of Note Grantees!
Congratulations to this year's COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Grantees: Alex Cain, Anna Louie Sussman, Anthony Aycock, Conor Bracken, Cora Currier, David Philip Mullins, Emmy Her Many Horses, Erica ... [Read More]
Congratulations 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Finalists!
Thanks to all who applied for a COURAGE to WRITE grant this year. Your collective work explored a rich landscape from the challenges of trauma, mental health, disability and gender identity to ... [Read More]
2024 COURAGE to WRITE applications are in review.
We hope to announce the COURAGE to WRITE finalists any moment now. Please check back. Thank you for entrusting your projects with us. We appreciate your commitment, craft and courage. The ... [Read More]
Shelley Stoehr “confronts the othering of marginalized women”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Shelley Stoehr, Girls! Girls! Girls! (Creative Nonfiction), West Haven, CT In Girls! Girls! Girls!, a recent college graduate ... [Read More]
Sakinah Hofler “sheds light on missing Black girls and women”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Sakinah Hofler, The Missing (Novel), Newark, NJ Situated in Newark, NJ, The Missing follows a young, Black woman who is trying to ... [Read More]
Preeti Kaur Rajpal’s book “expands the poetics of articulating belonging”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Preeti Kaur Rajpal, membery (Poetry), Minneapolis, MN In membery, Rajpal uses the tool of memory to write about Historic India’s ... [Read More]
Nikesha Elise Williams hopes for “readers who will love her characters as fiercely as they loved her.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Nikesha Elise Williams, The Seven Daughters of Dupree (Historical Fiction), Jacksonville, FL The Seven Daughters of Dupree is a ... [Read More]
Morris McLennan’s novel brings “actionable hope for our futures.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Morris McLennan, The Shapeshifters (Fiction), Chicago, IL The Shapeshifters is a novel about railways and billionaires and ... [Read More]
Melissa Chan’s Graphic Novel “informs and inspires.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Melissa Chan, You Must Take Part in Revolution (Graphic Novel), Co-author: Badiucao, Berlin, GERMANY You Must Take Part in ... [Read More]