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 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]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Brian Malloy “reminds readers of our common humanity.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Brian Malloy, In the Boundary Waters (Novel) One night in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Wilderness, drunken locals threaten a family ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Anndee Hochman “wants readers to come away feeling more connected and less alone”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Anndee Hochman, My Plural Is People (Young Adult Novel) In My Plural is People, teenagers Zach and Khady, best friends since ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Amanda Mei Kim “explores the love that rural Californians of color have for the land and each other.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Amanda Mei Kim, Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land (Nonfiction Memoir) Intercalifornias: A ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Alona Kharina writes “for people facing forced immigration”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Alona Kharina, No One is Home (Essays), Sumy, UKRAINE No One is Home is about loss of home and looking for a new one, memory as a ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Alfredo Aguilar hopes “we might imagine a future without the cruelty of militarized boundaries.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week: Alfredo Aguilar, Yield to No Country (Poetry), Lockhart, TX Yield to No Country is a collection of poems that chronicles the ... [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.”
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]
Congratulations Writer of Note Awardees!
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]