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Amazon Literary Partnership Opens for 2021 Submissions
This year supporting everything from PEN America to the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the Amazon Literary Partnership has opened its new US submissions process for 2021.
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Deadline for Submissions: January 29
In May, as you’ll recall, we announced that the Amazon Literary Partnership program of grants had announced more than US$1 million in funding to a total 66 nonprofit organizations.
That program has now opened its application submissions process for its 2021 grants.
“As in previous years,” organizers of the program write, the effort is “to fund organizations working to champion diverse, marginalized, and unrepresented authors and storytellers.
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Deep Vellum dreams of ‘literary arts center’ that city’s readers and writers can call home
The publisher calls for a physical space where programs like those at its bookstore can get a bit more elbow room.
Will Evans, executive director of Deep Vellum Publishing(Lynda M. Gonzalez / Staff Photographer)
It’s been five years since Deep Vellum set up shop on Commerce Street and something is missing, says publisher Will Evans. He wants a ground-zero for readers and writers in Dallas. A “literary arts center,” he calls it. So, he’s decided to build one.
The nonprofit press he leads, now home to four imprints, is in the early stages of formalizing the idea and figuring out how to pay for it. (Evans puts the cost at “a lot more money than we have in the bank.”) Their notion is of a building where readings, workshops, classes, writers’ residencies and other literary programs can take place, with more frequency and more people than Deep Vellum’s small bookstore can ac