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Grants for Writers

2023 LANDO Writer of Note Awardee Lauren Markham’s work “grapples with the violence of borders”

July 7, 2023

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”

July 7, 2023

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.”

July 7, 2023

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”

June 30, 2023

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”

June 28, 2023

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”

June 23, 2023

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”

June 21, 2023

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”

June 14, 2023

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]

2023 LANDO Awardee Molly O’Toole’s work “forces readers to see migrants as human”

June 12, 2023

2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Molly O'Toole, THE ROUTE: The untold story of the new migrant underground (Nonfiction), Washington DC The Route: The untold story of the new migrant ... [Read More]

Congratulations COURAGE to WRITE Grant Awardees!

April 27, 2023

Congratulations to the 2023 COURAGE to WRITE Grant Awardees! Thank you for sharing your inspiring projects with us. We're delighted that Camille Wanliss, Caroline Schmidt, Ja'net Danielo, Jeannetta ... [Read More]

Congratulations Writer of Note Awardees!

April 27, 2023

Congratulations to the 2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Grant Awardees! Thank you for sharing your inspiring projects with us. We're delighted that Akilah Wise, Alfredo Aguliar, Alona Kharina, ... [Read More]

Congratulations LANDO Grant Awardees & Writers of Note!

April 10, 2023

Congratulations Molly O'Toole, Ben Mauk, Summer Awad, Lauren Markham, Seth Burkman, and Vanessa Hua! We're delighted that you are the 2023 LANDO Grant Awardees and Writers of Note. Thank you for ... [Read More]

2023 LANDO & COURAGE to WRITE Finalists Announced!

April 1, 2023

Congratulations to the LANDO and COURAGE to WRITE finalists!    Meet the LANDO finalists & COURAGE to WRITE finalists. We'll announce the LANDO grant awardees and the LANDO Writers of Note ... [Read More]

2023 COURAGE to WRITE Finalists Announced!

March 28, 2023

Congratulations to the COURAGE to WRITE finalists!   The COURAGE to WRITE grant awardees and Writers of Note will be announced the last week of April 2023. THANK YOU to all who applied. Reviewers ... [Read More]

Thanks to all who applied for the 2023 LANDO & COURAGE to WRITE grants.

March 26, 2023

Finalists in both categories will be posted on Monday March 27, 2023.  The Selection Committee is making final decisions. The LANDO grant awardees and Writers of Note will be posted on April 10, ... [Read More]

LANDO Grants for Migration, Immigration & Refugee Writing

November 15, 2022

LANDO Grants The de Groot Foundation collaborates with Barry Lando, award winning investigative journalist and former 60 Minutes producer, to provide the LANDO grants. Currently, the LANDO grants are ... [Read More]

Congratulations to the 2022 COURAGE to WRITE Recipients!

July 20, 2022

Congratulations to the 2022 COURAGE to WRITE Recipients! We're thrilled with this year's awardees for the inaugural COURAGE to WRITE program. Learn more about this year's Grant Awardees, Writer's of ... [Read More]

FINALISTS chosen for the COURAGE to WRITE Grants!

July 8, 2022

The 2022 COURAGE to WRITE selection committee loved reading your applications! So many exciting and important projects. Inspring! Thirty-three finalists have been chosen. In honor of our inaugural ... [Read More]

CONGRATULATIONS to the 2022 COURAGE TO WRITE RECIPIENTS!

July 5, 2022

Meet Campbell Walmsley, Jefferey Spivey, Joy Lanzendorfer, Leah Whitcomb, Michaeljulius Y. Idani, Monique Hayes & Zahir Janmohamed, the 2022 Courage to Write grant awardees. Learn more about the ... [Read More]

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