New York, NY – Poets & Writers,
Inc. received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to
support creative writing workshops for seniors. Poets & Writers is one of
fourteen recipients of the NEA’s first Creativity and Aging in America grants.
According to the NEA, “the program supports projects that involve older
Americans as creators through literature and music, and that promote lifelong
learning in the arts.” The writing workshops sponsored by Poets & Writers
will be led by published writers and will focus on poetry and creative nonfiction.
Each year, Poets & Writers’ Readings/Workshops program supports hundreds of
writers participating in events in large cities and small towns throughout New
York and California, as well as in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Seattle,
New Orleans, Tucson, and Washington D.C.
ABOUT POETS & WRITERS
Poets
& Writers is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization serving creative
writers. Since its founding in 1970, Poets & Writers’ mission has been to
foster the professional development of poets and writers, to promote
communication throughout the U.S.
literary community, and to help create an environment in which literature can
be appreciated by the widest possible public.
Poets & Writers accomplishes this by publishing Poets & Writers Magazine, maintaining Poets & Writers
Online, offering publishing advice to writers, producing an on-line database of
more than 7,500 authors, introducing emerging writers outside of New York City to the New
York City literary community, and providing direct
financial support to writers participating in public literary events.
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