We’re pleased to announce that poet and teaching artist Glenis Redmond will serve as a juror for the 2022 National Student Poets Alumni Microgrant Program!
Glenis Redmond is an award-winning poet and teaching artist from South Carolina. She travels nationally and internationally performing and conducting poetry workshops and has been a literary community leader for 28 years. Glenis is also Kennedy Center Teaching Artist in Washington, DC, and a Cave Canem alumna. She has been the pre-Appointment Ceremony mentor poet for the National Student Poets Program since 2014. In the past, she has prepared these exceptional youth poets to read at the Library of Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, and for First Lady Michelle Obama at The White House. In 2020, Glenis was awarded South Carolina’s highest award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts through the South Carolina Arts Commission. Glenis will be inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in the spring of 2022.
She is a North Carolina Literary Fellowship Recipient and helped to create the first Writer-in-Residence at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, NC. Her work has been showcased on NPR and PBS, and has been most recently published in Orion Magazine, The New York Times, The North Carolina Literary Review, Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, StorySouth, About Place, and Carolina Muse. In addition to The Three Harriets (Finishing Line Press, 2021), Glenis has three books of poetry published: Backbone (Underground Epics), Under the Sun (Main Street Rag), and What My Hand Say (Press 53). Another book, The Listening Skin, will be published by Four Way Books in 2022. Also in next year, she will have a collaborative book with Dr. Gabrielle Foreman and Dr. Lynnette Overby, published by the University of Georgia Press, to be titled Praise Songs for Dave the Potter, art by Jonathan Green and the poetry of Glenis Redmond.
About the Alumni Microgrant Program for Alumni of the National Student Poets Program
The NSPP Alumni Microgrant Program supports creative projects by alumni of the National Student Poets Program. Created to support NSPP alumni across all disciplines, states, and countries, this program seeks clear and compelling proposals that advance NSPP alumni development in their chosen field of creative inquiry.
We define creative inquiry as any investigation that informs our humanity and/or serves as a call to action promoting racial and social justice. Relevant projects can approach that inquiry through art, writing, performance, technology, math, and the social, natural, and/or physical sciences.
Qualifying projects and related expenses encompass a range of possibilities, including: cost of travel to conduct research; participation fee for a conference, writer’s retreat or residency; production costs for an exhibition, a public installation, a print edition, or a film; fulfillment of a component to complete a master’s thesis project or doctoral dissertation; and assistance for a curatorial or community-based project or event, among many options. For examples of past alumni projects by former National Student Poets that have been funded by our microgrant program, please visit our blog post about the 2021 microgrant recipients.
Five $1,000 grants will be awarded after proposals are reviewed by Alliance for Young Artists & Writers staff and our judge, Glenis Redmond. Exemplary proposals will demonstrate passion and dedication for the proposed projects. In addition, ten $1,000 grants will be awarded to alumni of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Applications for both microgrant programs will be accepted until January 31, 2022, at 11:59 pm EST.
The 2022 Alumni Microgrant Program is made possible by the Maurice R. Robinson Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Eligibility
- Must be a former National Student Poet.
- Currently enrolled high school and undergraduate students are not eligible.
- Previous Alumni Microgrant recipients are eligible. However, returning recipients will be considered only after all new applicants have received microgrant funding.
- Special consideration will be given to applicants who have not previously participated in A Suite of One’s Own: A Writer’s Residency.
How to Apply
All alumni must complete an online application to be considered for a microgrant. Please submit your application by Monday, January 31, 2022, at 11:59 pm ET.
If you have any questions, please email support@artandwriting.org.