Charles Jensen | Writer

Here’s roughly half of the literary organizations receiving support from the NEA in 2010.

Consider the number of presses, publications, and author support organizations here, and then consider how your involvement in advocacy will make a difference this year.

A Public Space Literary Projects, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the publication of the quarterly literary magazine A Public Space. The journal will pair emerging writers with mentors to develop new pieces of fiction for publication.

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the publication and promotion of American Poet magazine. The Academy also will expand its online publishing initiative, poets.org, which serves nearly one million visitors each month.

Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc. (aka Alice James Books)
Farmington, ME
$36,000
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of books of poetry. The selected poets will also read from their works at venues around the country.

American Poetry Review
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the publication and distribution of American Poetry Review. The journal will expand its reading audience through direct mail campaigns, Web promotion, and advertising.

Antioch University (on behalf of The Antioch Review)
Yellow Springs, OH
$5,000
To support the publication and promotion of The Antioch Review. The journal will hire a part-time staff member to carry out a Web-based marketing campaign, and increase support for artists.

Archipelago Books, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$54,000
To support the publication and promotion of works of fiction in translation. Proposed titles will be translated into English from German, Swedish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, and Croatian.

Aspect, Inc. (aka Zephyr Press)
Brookline, MA
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of new bilingual books of poetry by Zephyr Press. Proposed works will be translated into English from Chinese, Polish, and Hebrew.

Badgerdog Literary Publishing, Inc. (on behalf of American Short Fiction)
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of the quarterly journal American Short Fiction. The journal also will publish short stories exclusively on its website, updated monthly.

Bard College (on behalf of Words Without Borders)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$25,000
To support publication of Words Without Borders, an interactive website devoted to international literature. The free-of-charge website features audio recordings, nonfiction, short stories, poems, and novel excerpts drawn from more than 66 languages in 86 countries.

Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of the journal Conjunctions. Published twice a year, each issue of the journal has a unifying theme and averages more than 400 pages.

Big River Association (aka River Styx)
Saint Louis, MO
$5,000
To support the publication and distribution of River Styx, St. Louis’s oldest literary magazine. Contributors are selected from an annual pool of 6,000 submissions.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$30,000
To support the production, promotion, and related expenses for new volumes of poetry and fiction. Scheduled authors include Peter Makuck, Wyn Cooper, Craig Morgan Teicher, Anne Germanacos, Barbara Jane Reyes, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and Sean Thomas Dougherty.

Boston Critic, Inc. (aka Boston Review)
Somerville, MA
$15,000
To support the inclusion of fiction and poetry in the general interest magazine Boston Review. Fiction selections will be chosen by novelist and editor Junot Díaz.

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI Magazine)
Boston, MA
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of the literary journal, AGNI. The journal will automate its website, continue a direct-mail campaign, and place advertisements in a national publication.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry. Authors include Cynthia Kraman, Fay Chiang, Celena Glenn, Rachel McKibbens, and Ishle Yi Park.

Center for Religious Humanism (on behalf of Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the production and promotion of, as well as increased writers’ fees for, Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion. The journal will increase its national reach through a direct-mail campaign.

Center for the Art of Translation (on behalf of Two Lines)
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the publication and promotion of anthologies of literature in translation. The center will publish one book of Francophone literature and one of Arabic literature.

Children’s Book Press
San Francisco, CA
$36,000
To support the publication and promotion of multicultural and bilingual board books for early readers. The press will continue a five-year program to encourage reading among bilingual children.

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$72,000
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of volumes of poetry and fiction. Scheduled writers include Karen Tei Yamashita, Travis Nichols, Andrew Ervin, Aaron Morales, Ange Mlinko, Greg Hewett, and Lightsey Darst.

College of Charleston (on behalf of Crazyhorse Literary Journal)
Charleston, SC
$7,500
To support the publication and promotion of the literary journal Crazyhorse. The journal will undertake a direct-mail campaign as well as increase its print runs, author payments, and advertisements.

Colorado State University (on behalf of Colorado Review)
Fort Collins, CO
$7,500
To support publication and promotion of the Colorado Review. The journal will offer free subscriptions to 150 rural public libraries.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$84,000
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry. Proposed authors include Richard Jones, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Jean Valentine, Ruth Stone, Stephen Dobyns, Juan Ramon Jiménez, and Chase Twichell.

Creative Nonfiction Foundation
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
To support the publication and promotion of the literary journal Creative Nonfiction. The journal will launch a redesign of its issues, featuring long-form essays, as well as columns about books, writers, and the craft and business of writing.

Curators of the University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of The Missouri Review)
Columbia, MO
$20,000
To support the publication, promotion, and related expenses for The Missouri Review. Audiobook versions of the journal also will be produced.

Dalkey Archive Press
Champaign, IL
$48,000
To support the publication and promotion of works of translation of fiction and nonfiction. The press will publish titles from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Japan, Norway, Portugal, and Slovenia.

Emerson College (on behalf of Ploughshares)
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support the publication and national distribution of Ploughshares. The editorial policy of Ploughshares stipulates that each issue be guest-edited by a writer who is given editorial autonomy to apply his or her aesthetic vision.

Fence Magazine, Inc.
Albany, NY
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of Fence magazine, titles by Fence Books, and a catalogue. Scheduled poetry titles include Ben Doller’s Dead Ahead, Aaron Kunin’s The Sore Throat, and Martin Corless-Smith’s English Fragments/A Brief History of the Soul.

Four Way Books, Inc.
New York, NY
$42,000
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of books of poetry. Scheduled authors include Priscilla Becker, David Dodd Lee, Jamie Ross, Daniel Tobin, Monica Youn, and Megan Staffel.

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$96,000
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction, with an emphasis on international fiction and emerging and mid-career writers. Scheduled authors include Alyson Hagy, Jeffrey Allen, Robert Boswell, Per Petterson, Bernardo Atxaga, Nathacha Appanah, Tiphanie Yanique, and Maile Chapman.

Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
Houston, TX
$5,000
To support printing expenses, website development, and artist fees for the journal Gulf Coast. The project also will include a free reading series, a literary contest, and a small press journal and book fair.

Heyday Institute (aka Heyday Books)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support the publication of an anthology of African American writers in California. Contemporary emerging writers will be featured alongside established authors such as Walter Mosley, Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, James Madison Bell, and Maya Angelou.

Kenyon Review
Gambier, OH
$15,000
To support publication and costs and related expenses for the Kenyon Review and KR Online. The publication will integrate its print and online content and will launch a marketing campaign to promote both the journal and the website.

Les Figues Press
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support the production, distribution, and promotion of new works of poetry and prose as part of the press’s TrenchArt series. The series specializes in innovative literary work that may not fit into a specific genre.

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$66,000
To support the publication and promotion of works of poetry, fiction, and an anthology. Scheduled authors include Eric Gansworth, Kira Henehan, Éireann Lorsung, and Arra Lynn Ross.

Muae Publishing, Inc. (aka Kaya Press)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the publication and printing of Asian American literature. The press plans to promote its titles with reading tours, conference appearances, on the Internet, and through direct mail.

Narrative Magazine, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the artists fees for Narrative Magazine, a free online journal of new literature. Recent contributors have included Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Amy Tan, and T. C. Boyle.

One Story, Inc. (aka One Story)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of the literary journal One Story. Each issue features one short story by one writer.

Orion Society
Great Barrington, MA
$15,000
To support feature-length pieces of literary prose in Orion magazine. A bi-monthly literary and visual arts journal devoted to exploring the relationship between people and the natural world, the magazine currently has 20,000 subscribers.

Oxford American Literary Project
Little Rock, AR
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of the literary magazine The Oxford American. The magazine continues to highlight the work of emerging and established Southern writers and Southern culture.

Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support the publication and distribution of Poetry Flash, a free tabloid of event listings, readings, workshops, and literary news. Divided into geographical sections, Poetry Flash lists programs throughout California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest.

Provincetown Arts Press, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$5,000
To support publication of the 25th anniversary issue of Provincetown Arts. The press will improve its website, increase artist fees, and publish a companion anthology of previously published work.

Rain Taxi, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of the Rain Taxi Review of Books. The quarterly magazine has a national circulation of 18,000 copies.

Rose Metal Press, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of works in hybrid genres. Scheduled books include a book of essays and poems exploring the craft of writing prose poetry, a chapbook of short short stories, and a book of prose poetry.

Sarabande Books, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$40,000
To support the publication and promotion of collections of creative nonfiction and poetry. The press will promote its authors online to rural and urban schools and libraries.

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
To support the development and dissemination of print and online outreach materials to market small press titles and journals to bookstores, libraries, educators, and other readers. Approximately 450 small and independent presses are represented.

Sun Publishing Company, Inc. (aka The Sun)
Chapel Hill, NC
$5,000
To support printing extra copies of The Sun to distribute free to community college libraries across the country. The Sun is a monthly magazine with 65,000 subscribers featuring prose, poetry, interviews, creative nonfiction, and photography.

Teachers and Writers Collaborative
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the development and dissemination of materials related to the teaching of creative writing and the literary arts. The collaborative will publish Rouse Our Rhyme, a book on teaching poetry in the K-12 classroom, issues of the quarterly magazine Teachers & Writers, and issues of an e-newsletter.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support authors’ fees and promotion costs for The Threepenny Review. The proposed issues will be promoted through a direct-mail campaign, collaborative literary events with other organizations, advertising, appearances at local book fairs, and the journal’s website.

Tupelo Press, Inc.
North Adams, MA
$25,000
To support the publication and promotion of new collections of poetry and international literature. Proposed authors include Gary Soto, Ellen Doré Watson, Michael Chitwood, Megan Snyder-Camp, Rebecca Dunham, and Stacey Waite.

Ugly Duckling Presse, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and a book of prose, poetry, photography, and essays. Proposed authors include Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Clark Coolidge, Marosa Di Giorgio, Eugène Guillevic, Christian Hawkey, Cole Swensen, and Ivan Yauri.

University of Central Missouri State University (on behalf of Pleiades & Pleiades Press)
Warrensburg, MO
$5,000
To support the publication of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and books of poetry. As part of its Unsung Masters Series, the press will publish a book of essays and a sampling of poems by an under-appreciated poet.

University of Chicago (on behalf of Chicago Review)
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support publication and promotion of a special issue of the Chicago Review focusing on new writing from Italy. The journal will bring featured writers to Chicago for readings.

University of Hawaii at Manoa (on behalf of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing)
Honolulu, HI
$7,500
To support the publication, distribution, and design of the literary journal Manoa. The journal features literary poetry, prose, and translations as well as photography and visual art.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público Press)
Houston, TX
$30,000
To support publication and promotion of anthologies celebrating the 30th anniversary of the press. The anthologies will feature previously published poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction celebrating the best of Arte Público Press.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (on behalf of Ninth Letter Literary Journal)
Champaign, IL
$5,000
To support the publication of the literary and arts journal Ninth Letter. Issues will feature new literary prose and poetry from new and established writers as well as graphic design produced by students at the University of Illinois School of Art and Design.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of Jubilat)
Amherst, MA
$5,000
To support the redesign of Jubilat’s website and to print and promote issues.Recent contributors to the journal include Daisy Fried, Terrance Hayes, Cathy Park Hong, Karen Volkman, and Rosemary Waldrop.

University of Nebraska at Lincoln (on behalf of University of Nebraska Press)
Lincoln, NE
$20,000
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of translated fiction and literary fiction and creative nonfiction. Featured authors include Isabelle Eberhardt, Édouard Glissant, Olivier Rolin, Ana María Shua, Toni Jensen, Terese Svoboda, Robert Vivian, Fleda Brown, Ellen Cassedy, Sonya Huber, Patrick Madden, David Mogen, Jon Pineda, and Tracy Seeley.

University of North Carolina at Wilmington (on behalf of Ecotone)
Wilmington, NC
$5,000
To support the publication and promotion of a trade paperback collection of Edith Pearlman’s work. Other planned activities include raising artists’ fees and a cross-promotion of this series with the biannual journal Ecotone, which seeks to bridge the gap between the literary world and the worlds of science and environmentalism.

University of Texas at Austin (on behalf of University of Texas Press)
Austin, TX
$7,500
To support the acquisition, publication, promotion, and distribution of English-language translations. The University of Texas Press is an international press, dedicated to publishing English-language translations of literature from all over the world with a specific focus on Latin America and the Middle East.

ZYZZYVA, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the publication, promotion, and related costs of Zyzzyva, a journal featuring the work of West Coast writers. Each issue includes approximately 20 writers, one-third of whom have never been in print.