The de Groot Foundation’s Grants for Writers

The de Groot Foundation’s Grants for Writers is sponsored by The de Groot Foundation. Offers grants to encourage and support writers in completing specific projects, including COURAGE to WRITE and Writer of Note grants.

The de Groot Foundation's Grants for Writers | The de Groot Foundation These grants are meant to encourage and support writers as they further or complete a specific project. The Writer of Note Grantees are chosen from the pool of finalists for the COURAGE to WRITE grants. Learn more about our COURAGE to WRITE and Writer of Note Grantees It takes courage and character to be a writer.

It means accepting the risk of revealing yourself and overcoming fears of putting your feelings and dangerous ideas right there on the page. ~Alan Rinzler Courage is the first essential for a writer. ~Katherine Anne Porter The de Groot Foundation collaborates with Barry Lando , award winning investigative journalist and former 60 Minutes producer, to provide the LANDO grants .

Currently, the LANDO grants are for writers exploring the issues of and solutions to the challenges of migration, immigration or the refugee experience .

I’m honored to partner with Charles and Clydette de Groot to tackle one of the gravest problems facing the world today– the enormous rise in refugees and migrants fleeing catastrophic conditions in their homelands, desperate to start new lives in the globe’s more stable, prosperous nations.

My goal is to encourage emerging authors to examine—via fiction or nonfiction, any aspect of this on-going challenge, from its varied causes to its impact in the “developed” world. I am particularly interested in discovering potential authors and researchers with fresh ideas for solutions.

~Barry Lando Learn more about our LANDO Grantees Investing in Writers & the Literary Arts The de Groot Foundation is a private 501(C)(3) grant making foundation located in the United States that supports writers and the literary arts.