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”
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.”
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]
The American Library in Paris 2023-24 Visiting Fellows are Announced!
Congratulations to the 2023-24 Visiting Fellows! The AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS Visiting Fellowship Program is sponsored by The de Groot Foundation, and provides writers with the ability to pursue a ... [Read More]
2023 COURAGE to WRITE Awardee Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham “creates space and conversations to help others”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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]
The Birthright of Sons
2022 COURAGE to WRITE Grantee, Jefferey Spivey's short story collection, The Birthright of Sons, was published by Texas Tech University Press on January 9, 2024. Learn more and purchase your copy HERE ... [Read More]
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough
2021-2022 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Dina Nayeri's book, Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough, was published by Catapult in March 2023. Learn more and purchase your copy HERE ... [Read More]
Congratulations COURAGE to WRITE Grant Awardees!
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!
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]
Shelley Stoehr
Girls! Girls! Girls! (Creative Nonfiction), West Haven, CT In Girls! Girls! Girls!, a recent college graduate struggles to make it as an artist while working as a stripper in 1990s New York and ... [Read More]
Sakinah Hofler
The Missing (Novel), Newark, NJ Situated in Newark, NJ, The Missing follows a young, Black woman who is trying to escape the world of forced prostitution and make a better life for herself and ... [Read More]
Preeti Kaur Rajpal
membery (Poetry), Minneapolis, MN In membery, Rajpal uses the tool of memory to write about Historic India’s Partition woven with the experience of Sikhs in America in the post-9/11 era. "I ... [Read More]
Nikesha Elise Williams
The Seven Daughters of Dupree (Historical Fiction), Jacksonville, FL The Seven Daughters of Dupree is a historical fiction novel about the secrets kept between mothers and daughters over the ... [Read More]
Morris McLennan
The Shapeshifters (Fiction), Chicago, IL The Shapeshifters is a novel about railways and billionaires and transgender people and love and ghosts and the Midwest United States. "I want people ... [Read More]
Melissa Chan
You Must Take Part in Revolution (Graphic Novel), Co-author: Badiucao, Berlin, GERMANY You Must Take Part in Revolution, by Melissa Chan and Badiucao, is a speculative fiction set in a ... [Read More]
Joshua Aiken
Wear a Clean Second Face (Poetry), New Haven, CT Wear a Clean Second Face is a project focused on the paradoxes of American football: owners, profit, and spectacle; brutality, cognition, & ... [Read More]
Gary V. Powell
Men in Love: Stories (Short Fiction), Cornelius, NC Men in Love: Stories is linked by the theme of “men in love.” And not only romantic love between a man and woman, but also a man's love for his ... [Read More]
Eva Freeman
Jericho (Historical Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Jericho, During the dawn of African independence, Franklin Williams, a great champion of the race, will also participate in one of its greatest ... [Read More]
Emily Hockaday
Blood Music (Poetry), Queens, NY Blood Music braids together pregnancy and childbirth, a father’s diagnosis and death from ALS, and a loved one’s addiction crisis. "I aim to reach readers ... [Read More]