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]
Grants for Writers
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]
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]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Joshua Aiken’s work reminds us “that our lives are worth living and worth fighting for.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Joshua Aiken, Wear a Clean Second Face (Poetry), New Haven, CT Wear a Clean Second Face is a project focused on the paradoxes of ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Gary V. Powell “provides insight into the lives of men struggling to find, receive, and express love.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Gary V. Powell, Men in Love: Stories (Short Fiction), Cornelius, NC Men in Love: Stories is linked by the theme of “men in love.” ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Eva Freeman’s “work creates empathy for the overlooked and the unheard.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Eva Freeman, Jericho (Historical Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Jericho, During the dawn of African independence, Franklin Williams, a ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Emily Hockaday “highlights bodies changing and how love is inextricable from grief.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Emily Hockaday, Blood Music (Poetry), Queens, NY Blood Music braids together pregnancy and childbirth, a father’s diagnosis and ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Cocoa Michelle Williams “relishes in the joy of self-definition and collective Black women’s memory”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Cocoa Michelle Williams, Syrup (Poetry), Marietta, GA Syrup explores the myriad ways in which Black women have embraced radical ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Christina Wood offers “portraits of people retaining dignity through struggle”
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]
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]