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]
Grants for Writers
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]
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]
Announcing the 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Grantees!
We're delighted to announce this year's twelve COURAGE to WRITE grantees: Abdelrahman ElGendy, Amy Kennedy, Anthony Hudson, Azra Liaqat Khan, Emma Barrow, Julie Kim, Leo Ríos, Lisa Deangelis, Liz ... [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]
Molly O’Toole Reflects on her 2023 LANDO Grant
2023 LANDO Grantee Molly O'Toole says, "Thanks to the support of the LANDO grant, other things have also fallen into place, and I've been able to do crucial reporting in South Asia and Latin ... [Read More]
Monique Hayes Remarks on her 2022 COURAGE to WRITE Grant
2022 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee Monique Hayes says, “I never would've applied to these grants without The de Groot Foundation's support of my novel. Now four other organizations are behind the project ... [Read More]
Akilah Wise Remarks on Receiving a Grant
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Akilah Wise says "This funding helped me secure another writing residency to help find much-needed time and space to revise my novel." Thinking about applying ... [Read More]
Alfredo Aguilar Reflects on his Writer of Note Grant
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Alfredo Aguilar says he's " been very appreciative of the time the grant allowed to carve out for my book.” Thinking about applying for a grant in the 2024 ... [Read More]
Morris McLennan Publishes His Debut Chapbook!
Congratulations to 2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Morris McLennan for the publication of his debut poetry chapbook, Poems for Employees! Published by Bottlecap Press, McLennan explores ... [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]