The Amazon Literary Partnership announced that the Association of Writers & Writing Programs has received a grant of $5,000 to support its Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. AWP is among the list of 2020 Amazon Literary Partnership Grant Recipients, collectively awarded a total of more than $1 million.

AWP’s mission is to provide services that uplift creative writers and the organizations that serve them and to champion diversity and excellence in the field of creative writing.

The Writer to Writer Mentorship Program is a service program within AWP in which published experienced mentor writer members provide free intensive three-month mentorships to emerging member writers, most from nontraditional academic backgrounds. Since 2014, the program has served over 600 writers and has played a transformational role in the lives of the emerging writers served, helping them create, publish, experiment, and thrive. Molia Dumbleton, a 2017 fiction mentee, says: “Writer to Writer was the very first time that someone besides me sat down and read nearly my entire body of work. My mentor read the whole thing, with care, and then we talked. Not only was the conversation two-way, but was also able, for the first time, to be a larger conversation about my writing as a whole, my career as a whole, as it stretches both backward and forward in time.” AWP is proud that Writer to Writer has made so many writers feel seen and valued.

“The Amazon Literary Partnership grants are awarded to innovative groups whose core mission has a deep impact on the lives of writers and the broader literary and publishing community,” said Alexandra Woodworth, Amazon Literary Partnership manager. “We are proud to support all of this year’s ALP grant recipients and applaud their commitment to nurturing a vibrant and diverse literary landscape.”

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