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]
Grants for Writers
Natasha Driscoll Reclaims the Biracial Narrative
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]
Emma Barrow’s Work Centers Strong Cherokee Women
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]
Anthony Hudson Finds Indigiqueer Representation Through Drag
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]
Amy Kennedy Explores the Intersection of Industry and Nature
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]
Kenneth R. Rosen Chronicles the Impacts of Climate Change and the New Cold War
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]
Emmy Her Many Horses Writes Rez Kid Stories for Rez Kids
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]
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]
Stanley Gordon looks at relationships between men and their mental well-being
Meet Stanley Gordon, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee working on his stage play, OFFICE (Nut). A frantic psycho-dramatic magical-realist comedy, OFFICE (Nut) explores tumultuous internal ... [Read More]
Erica Blumfield explores the highs and lows of living with bipolar disorder
Meet Erica Blumfield, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her memoir, Starring Erica Blumfield. Bipolar convinces Erica her life is a reality TV show, in a memoir weaving NYC’s music ... [Read More]
Pepper Auerbach navigates the surreality of psychosis
Pepper Auerbach, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on their graphic memoir, My Brain Itches! My Brain Itches! follows a young boy named Pepper, as he navigates living with the ... [Read More]
Elizabeth C. Wellington Shares Asylum Seeker’s Stories
Congratulations to Elizabeth C. Wellington, one of our 2024 LANDO Writers of Note, for her work of creative nonfiction, The Asylum Seekers. Testimonials and stories of asylum seekers in ICE ... [Read More]
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
Congratulations to Tanvi Misra, one of our 2024 LANDO Writers of Note, for her nonfiction work The Body Political: How Borders Affect the Human Body. Borders surveil, map, inspect and ultimately ... [Read More]
Stephanie DeGooyer Explores the Global Asylum System
Congratulations to Stephanie DeGooyer, one of our 2024 LANDO Grantees, for her nonfiction work Offshore: The Rise and Fall of Asylum. Offshore: The Rise and Fall of Asylum foretells the unraveling ... [Read More]
Yevheniia Dubrova Spans Ukraine’s History and Displacement
Congratulations to Yevheniia Dubrova, one of our 2024 LANDO Grantees, for her short story collection What Remains: Stories. What Remains: Stories is a collection of short fiction spanning the past ... [Read More]
Elizabeth C. Wellington Short-Listed for the Disquiet International Literary Program
Congratulations to 2024 LANDO Writer of Note Elizabeth C. Wellington for being short-listed for the Disquiet International Literary Program! A short story she developed from the work she received a ... [Read More]
Elena Dudum Explores Palestinians in the Diaspora
Congratulations to Elena Dudum for becoming a 2024 LANDO grantee for her nonfiction work, I Was Told Back Home Would Be Beautiful. I Was Told Back Home Would Be Beautiful explores how the ... [Read More]
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]