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Microgrant Winners

First place

Young Poets Workshop

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Congratulations to the winners of the Incandescent Microgrant! We were amazed by the quality and depth of this year's submissions, but these winners stood out for their unique visions, emotional resonance, and technical mastery. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted.
 

$500

GRANT

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Young Poets Workshops is unique as an organization because of the community and collaboration it encourages. Very few initiatives have a primary focus on building inclusive and ungatekept resources and community for young writers and poets. Especially as the organization is community-based and open to anyone who wishes to join, the connections that YPW creates are invaluable to the writing community as a whole. YPW will also be a longstanding project, running much beyond our high school years. Many other forms of events have limitations on the activities that they are able to encourage, but YPW has the freedom of consistent innovation. Our community-based approach allows for the consistent birth of new initiatives working to benefit the writing community. The inclusivity of opportunity that we provide is essential to helping poets of all backgrounds flourish and grow, and we hope to continue doing so with the Incandescent Microgrant.

2nd Place

HaluHalo Southeast Asian Youth Anthology

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HaluHalo Journal is the first journal aimed at highlighting and supporting Southeast Asian youth across borders. Though Southeast Asians comprise nearly 17% of the global population, with Southeast Asian youth totalling half, we are often misrepresented or entirely excluded in media representation. Additionally, there are few current programs that support Southeast Asian youth in writing and art spaces. HaluHalo Journal seeks to bridge this divide, and our project, a Southeast Asian youth anthology, will be the first anthology ever curated for this demographic. Our theme (FOLKLORE, FOLKTALES, or FABLES) aims to display the stories of Southeast Asian cultures, told through youth voices.

$250

GRANT

3rd Place

Publishing Quest​

$100

GRANT

As a magazine we strive to encourage diversity and showcasing the voices of youth. We urge our submitters to dig deep and let out their most creative thoughts and feelings. This program would benefit the chosen writers as they would have the opportunity to be mentored by a successful author, have one one one help with their book, and be published through us; all for free. Plus, they would receive royalties from their book purchases. We hope to run this program every few years to get as many young voices out there in the published world.

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