COURAGE to WRITE grantee Winshen Liu's poetry chapbook, Paper Money, was published by Driftwood Press on August 5, 2025. "Paper Money is a sensory and sparse exploration of grief and the complexity ... [Read More]
Angers Literary Festival: Possible Futures
Thank you to all who attended the Angers Literary Festival on May 24, 2025! Whether you’re a book lover, a curious thinker, or someone passionate about the future of climate change, identity, ... [Read More]
IWWG Anthology
The de Groot Foundation is honored to support Write Forward, the International Women's Writing Guild's 2025 Anthology. Write Forward aligns with the 69th United Nations Commission on the Status of ... [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]
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]
Gun Violence Prevention: Rally Reading Series
Rally Reading Series' next event is April 4th, 2024. Hosted by 2023 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee Ryan D. Matthews, Rally Reading Series offers monthly live readings, brief conversation, and a call to ... [Read More]
Christian Elder’s Short Film “Polyvore” is out!
Congratulations to 2022 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Christian Elder for the release of his short film, "Polyvore"! "Polyvore" is a comedic short film Christian Elder and Jessica Mathews made ... [Read More]
2024 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship
Applications close April 1st, 2024. The Visiting Fellowship offers writers and researchers an opportunity to pursue a creative project in Paris for a month or longer while participating actively in ... [Read More]
Hadley Franklin Wins 2023 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize!
Congratulations to Hadley Franklin, winner of the 2023 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, for her work Falling. Hadley Franklin holds an MFA in fiction from New York University’s Creative ... [Read More]
2023 First Pages Prize Winners Are Announced!
Congratulations to the 2023 First Pages Prize Winners! The First Pages Prize mission is to discover, recognize and encourage emerging voices through the annual creative nonfiction and fiction FIRST ... [Read More]
Congratulations to 2022 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Grant Awardee Linda Musita for her book publication, MTAMA ROAD!
Linda Musita's debut short story collection, Mtama Road, was published on August 4th by down river road, an independent publisher of books and journals based in Nairobi, Kenya. The cover art was ... [Read More]
Congratulations to 2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Grant Awardee Joshua Aiken for his book publication, TO BE IN & OF!
Joshua Aiken's debut poetry chapbook, to be in & of, is published by Palette Poetry. To learn more about 2023 Writer of Note Joshua, go to his featured page. To learn more about the chapbook ... [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]
to be in & of
COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Joshua Aiken's debut poetry chapbook, to be in & of, was published by Palette Poetry on August 7th, 2023. Learn more and order your copy HERE ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Ryan D. Matthews’ “work probes the prohibitory bonds of masculinity”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Ryan D. Matthews, Country Music (Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Country Music, three students struggle within their impoverished rural community when 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 LANDO Writer of Note Awardee Vanessa Hua’s work “illuminates untold stories”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Vanessa Hua, El Nido (Novel), San Francisco Bay Area, CA In El Nido, the fates of four families collide, illuminating the nature of territory, predators and ... [Read More]
Mtama Road
COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Linda Musita's book, Mtama Road, was published by down river road on August 4th, 2023. Learn more and order your own copy HERE. ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Lydia Kim’s stories “illuminate the ways people create wholeness from pieces.”
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Feature of the Week: Lydia Kim, The Divers (Novel), San Francisco Bay Area, CA The Divers explores the struggle of breaking painful cycles when misogyny, self-exile, ... [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 LANDO Writer of Note Awardee Seth Berkman’s work “prioritizes that immigrants, the future of this country, receive a quality and fair education.”
2023 LANDO Awardee Feature of the Week: Seth Berkman, Piners and Prophets: One American Town’s Radical Transformation (Nonfiction), New York, NY Piners and Prophets: One American Town's Radical ... [Read More]
membery
COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Grant Awardee Preeti Kaur Rajpal's debut book of poetry, membery, was published by Tupelo Press on November 1, 2023. Learn more and order your copy HERE ... [Read More]
2023 LANDO Writer of Note Awardee Lauren Markham’s work “grapples with the violence of borders”
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]