“The Gift of Freedom is one of the heftiest grants available to writers anywhere and is the largest open solely to women in the United States.”—Poets & Writers
The 7th Gift of Freedom application is now open Deadline: November 2, 2015
This Black History Month, the world is buoyed by the beauty and power of Amanda S. C. Gorman, first National Youth Poet Laureate, and the legacy of Anna Julia Cooper whose 1892 classic feminist text, A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South, argued for both racial and gender equality.
How can we claim our agency and proclaim who we are and what we do as creative women?
Present yourself and your creative project as investable; ambitiously answer
the “thumping from within.”