LANDO & Director's Grantee Lauren Markham is hosting Structure from Chaos: A Two-Day Class on Making Shape and Finding Our Way Through Longform Prose Projects, on Saturday, October 10th and ... [Read More]
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The Drift Issue 18 is Here!
Issue 18 of The Drift Magazine is out now! Featuring Piper French on NYC-DSA, Hanson O’Haver on Hollywood’s music biopic obsession, Séamus Malekafzali on the UAE’s schizophrenic foreign policy, ... [Read More]
The Dial Discusses HOW WE SEE IT at the American Library in Paris
On September 29, join Award-winning Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk and Dial editor Madeleine Schwartz as they examine how the United States is viewed from abroad. Their hybrid event, How The ... [Read More]
Meet the 2026 Desperate Literature Prize Winner & Runners-up!
Congratulations to Mimi Kawahara, winner of the 2026 Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction, for "Disaster preparedness test, ex post facto," which is ‘devastatingly intimate …accomplishes ... [Read More]
Meet the 2026-27 de Groot Visiting Fellows at the American Library in Paris!
Congratulations Madhuri Vijay, Ricardo Nuila, Adam Leith Gollner, Julie Carrick Dalton, & Molly Peacock! The de Groot Visiting Fellowship Program at the American Library in Paris supports ... [Read More]
Meet the 2026 Director’s Grantees!
Congratulations to our Director's Grant Recipients! We are honored to support your projects, and can't wait to see them out in the world! Congratulations to Abdelrahman Elgendy, Alfredo Aguiliar, ... [Read More]
New This Week from The Dial: June Bugs in Bogotá & International Debt Control
The Dial publishes two pieces a week, one original to The Dial and one in translation. This week's articles include: Only a Little While Here by María Ospina (Tr. Heather ... [Read More]
Watch “Writing Characters from Family” with Sheila Kohler
Check out Writer-in-Residence Sheila Kohler's recent event at the American Library in Paris, Writing Characters from Family. Delve into the intricate process of crafting characters inspired by life ... [Read More]
Should Human Life Be Optimized? Read Anna Louie Sussman’s Three-Part Series on Human Embryos
For the past two and a half years, COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Anna Louie Sussman has been working on a three-part series for The New York Times about human embryos. The first story, "What Do ... [Read More]
The DAG Prize is Open! Apply by March 15th
We’re happy to announce the DAG prize, created in part by one of our COURAGE to WRITE finalists, is now open! Applications are now open for the first annual DAG Prize in Literature, a $20,000 ... [Read More]