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Demonstrators this spring have come together in Boston and across the country to bring awareness to a rising wave of violence against Asian-Americans. On Saturday, a number of artists took their turn in Copley Square to make their voices heard in a special way. With art, you can convey that with passion and love and even if there’s aggression in the music, you’re not abusing somebody, you’re not calling somebody out, said Anoushka Kota, a vocalist who performed at the Saturday s rally. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
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.
Image – iStockphoto: Simon Apilolla
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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