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{"id":2296,"date":"2020-10-25T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T09:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2020-11-01T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T13:39:33","slug":"texas-grant-awards-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=2296&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"Texas Grant Awards Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New and recent Texas literary grants awarded<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Literary Arts Emergency Fund<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">The&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/academy-american-poets-community-literary-magazines-presses-and-national-book-foundation-join\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0063cc\">Literary Arts Emergency Fund<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">, launched and administered by the&nbsp;Academy of American Poets, the&nbsp;Community of Literary Magazine &amp; Presses&nbsp;(CLMP), and the&nbsp;National Book Foundation, will be distributing $3,530,000 in emergency funding to 282 nonprofit literary arts organizations, magazines, and presses across the nation that have experienced severe financial losses due to COVID-19. The organizations and publishers to receive support reported $27,635,559 in financial losses to date and are projecting $48,137,391 in financial losses in the year ahead.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Texas recipients include <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Arte Publico Press, Writers in the Schools, CantoMundo, Gemini Ink, Inprint, Texas Book Festival, <em>American Short Fiction<\/em>, <em>Gulf Coast Journal<\/em>, San Antonio Book Festival, <em>Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review<\/em>, Deep Vellum Publishing, Kallisto Gaia Press, and The Writer\u2019s Garret. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\">Patterson Partnership Grant Teachers Named<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\">James Patterson and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\">Scholastic Book Clubs<\/span><span style=\"color:#333333\">&nbsp;revealed the names of 5,000 teachers across the U.S. who have won&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/pattersonpartnership\/index.html\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0033ff\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Patterson Partnership<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\">&nbsp;grants to help build classroom and at-home libraries for students. Each teacher receives $500 in cash and 500 Scholastic Book Clubs Bonus Points.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\">The 2020 partnership drew more than 100,000 applicants, showing the dire need for books and classroom resources. Patterson has now donated $11 million to school and classroom libraries through his Scholastic Book Clubs campaign.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><strong><span style=\"color:#333333\">Texas Commission on the Arts<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.texas.gov\/cities21\/cities\/all\/2021\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\">The Texas Commission on the Arts<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:black\"> funds a wide variety of arts and cultural activities across the state. Click through for a list of all the grants approved by the commission. These grant activities will occur sometime within fiscal year 2021 (September 1, 2020 through August 31, 2021). <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:black\">Grants totaled $12,964,621. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Texas literary arts organizations that received TCA grants include National Center for Children&#8217;s Illustrated Literature, <em>American Short Fiction<\/em>, Austin Bat Cave, Writers&#8217; League of Texas, Deep Vellum Publishing, Writer&#8217;s Garret, Tejas Storytelling Association, <em>Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art<\/em>, Inprint, Public Poetry, UH\/Arte Publico Press, UH\/Houston Shakespeare Festival, Writers In The Schools, Texas Shakespeare Festival\/Kilgore College, Gemini Ink, Say Si, and the Waco Cultural Arts Fest.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New and recent Texas literary grants awarded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[835,813,830,844],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-awards","tag-lone-star-literary-life","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-newsbrief"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}