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
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
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]
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]
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]
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]
Cocoa Michelle Williams
Syrup (Poetry), Marietta, GA Syrup explores the myriad ways in which Black women have embraced radical self-definition in the face of the flatness of stereotype and dehumanizing ... [Read More]
Christina Chiu
Faith in a Time of No God (Nonfiction Memoir), New York, NY As a mother of a medically-fragile child, Chiu’s Failing to Thrive: A Story about Race and Gender Bias in Medicine speaks to how ... [Read More]
Christina Wood
Escapes (Fiction), Athens, GA Escapes follows four female characters on the brink of enormous life change as symptoms of climate change begin to manifest in their own town. “My hope is ... [Read More]
Caren Lissner
How We Became Homeless: A Cringy Chronicle of Downward Mobility (Memoir/Creative Nonfiction), Hoboken, NJ How We Became Homeless: A Cringy Chronicle of Downward Mobility is a coming of age memoir ... [Read More]
Brian Malloy
In the Boundary Waters (Novel), Minneapolis, MN One night in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Wilderness, drunken locals threaten a family of campers in an incident that reveals the fault lines ... [Read More]
Anndee Hochman
My Plural Is People (Young Adult Novel), PA In My Plural is People, teenagers Zach and Khady, best friends since pre-school, embark on an impulsive winter-break quest to learn the truth about ... [Read More]
Amanda Mei Kim
Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land (Nonfiction Memoir), San Mateo, CA Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land explores ... [Read More]
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 mental disorder, identity in the ancestral, cosmic, and physical aspects. “I ... [Read More]