Written by Brenda Nicholas

According to info available at AWP, the National Endowment for the Arts will award $20.2 million in grants to various nonprofit art organizations and over $1 million toward creative writing fellowships this year. Do you hear and see what I hear and see, fellow writers?

It sounds like this: coffee pouring into a personalized mug, or maybe ocean waves, or both. It looks like this: pjs, slippers, wooden deck, sprawling sea, and a laptop, where our finest pieces of work unfold before our very eyes.