The biannual journal by the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ Press is the recipient of two national grants in support of cultural projects and literary work.
The (NEA) awarded ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ an grant of $10,000 for its artistically excellent projects that celebrate American creativity and cultural heritage. The grant that ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ received was one of many that NEA sponsors to fund projects in every state.
The , in alliance with the Amazon Literary Partnership , awarded ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ a 2020 Literary Magazine Fund grant of $5,000. The was launched in 2019 to help support the crucial work of literary publishers.
²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ is one of three UH Press journals that celebrated 30 years of publishing in 2019. It has published more than 60 issues and has featured the work of more than a thousand contributors from all over the world.
The grants will be used to help strengthen the journal and provide the opportunity to publish ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹¡¯s summer 2020 issue, Tyranny Lessons: International Prose, Poetry, and Performance, a collection of writing about ordinary people struggling against the restrictions on lives, movements and thoughts imposed by intolerant societies, repressive political systems and failed states.