New Mexico Writers Grant

 Very pleased to share that I've been awarded a New Mexico Writers grant for my work on my novel-in-progress, THE DOUBLE SUN!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                              Contact: James McGrath Morris

May 26, 2021                                                                            (505) 469-5273
                                                                                                mail@jamesmcgrathmorris.com

 

New Mexico Writers Awards Four Grants to Support Statewide Literary Projects

Santa Fe, NM—New Mexico Writers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and connecting the state’s literary community, has selected four New Mexico writers working in various genres as recipients of grants to further a range of literary endeavors.

Each year, New Mexico Writers solicits grant proposals from writers from all populations and geographic areas of New Mexico, including lesser-served communities. The 2021 competition drew submissions from writers statewide working in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting.

 

The four award-winners will receive a total of $7,000 in grants, including $6,000 from the New Mexico Writers Annual Dinner Fund and $1,000 from the Douglas Preston Travel Grant Fund. The funds will support writing, research, publishing, and other activities surrounding new works or works in progress.    

 

The grantees will be honored at the next New Mexico Writers annual dinner on April 28, 2022, at La Fonda on the Plaza, featuring poet Levi Romero as keynote speaker. The annual dinner brings together established and emerging writers, booksellers, publishers, and donors to raise funds for the New Mexico Writers grant making program.

 

The 2021 New Mexico Writers grant recipients are:

 

Zach Hively, Abiquiu: $2,000 to revise a creative nonfiction collection of stories.

 

Chelsea Bunn, Albuquerque: $2,000 to support travel and expenses for a literary residency, where she will draft and revise her full-length poetry collection.

 

Jeanne Lyet Gassman, Ruidoso: $2,000 to support attendance at several writing workshops that will lead to final revisions of a novel-in-progress.

 

Renata Golden, Santa Fe: $1,000 Douglas Preston Travel Grant to support travel and research on a nonfiction collection of personal essays set in the borderlands of New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico.

 

New Mexico Writers is a not-for-profit organization operating under the fiscal sponsorship of the New Mexico Foundation. In addition to its annual fundraising dinner, the organization distributes a monthly newsletter highlighting New Mexico literary news. New Mexico Writers also produces Sneak Preview, featuring readings of unpublished works by writers statewide.

 

To learn more about the 2021 grant recipients, or schedule interviews, contact James McGrath Morris at mail@jamesmcgrathmorris.com.

 

For more information about New Mexico Writers, visit NMWriters.org.