FP to receive $50k grant from the National Endowment for the Arts!

The Feminist Press is very excited to announce that we have been approved for a $50,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support our book publications and programming in 2022. Our project is among 1,248 projects across America totaling nearly $29 million that were selected during this first round of fiscal year 2022 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects funding category.

“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts projects like this one from Feminist Press that help support the community’s creative economy,” said NEA Acting Chair Ann Eilers. “Feminist Press is among the arts organizations nationwide that are using the arts as a source of strength, a path to well-being, and providing access and opportunity for people to connect and find joy through the arts.”

“Entering our fifty-second year, Feminist Press continues to publish insurgent, marginalized writers who are pushing the feminist conversation forward,” said Interim Executive Director and Publisher Lauren Rosemary Hook. “In 2022 the NEA's support will help us champion diverse translated works of fiction as well as essential queer fiction and nonfiction titles.”

The publications supported by this award include forthcoming titles Violets, the debut novel from best-selling Korean author Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Anton Hur; Panics, the haunting collection of short stories by twentieth-century French writer Barbara Molinard, translated for the first time into English by Emma Ramadan; and Panpocalypse by Carley Moore, the print version of a serialized novel that follows a queer disabled woman in NYC during the COVID-19 pandemic. We look forward to announcing the additional titles that will receive NEA support in our fall 2022 season.

For more information on projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.