Literary Magazine Fund 2024 Grant Recipient

 Hayden’s Ferry Review/Thousand Languages Project at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
at Arizona State University (ASU) selected as Amazon Literary Partnership Literary Magazine Fund 2024 Grant Recipient.

Tempe, AZ (June 26, 2024)—The Amazon Literary Partnership today announced that Hayden’s Ferry Review/Thousand Languages project at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU received a Literary Magazine Fund grant to support its program and operations.

“Literary magazines have always served as an important record and reflection of our country’s literary landscape, and are so often the first place where countless writers connect with readers,” said CLMP Executive Director Mary Gannon. “CLMP is incredibly grateful to Amazon Literary Partnership for its ongoing support of these essential publishers through the Literary Magazine Fund.”

About The Piper Center, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Thousand Languages

Founded in 2003 with a historic gift from the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU is a non-academic university center dedicated to offering talks, readings, classes, workshops, and other literary events and programs for the larger community.  We seek to make literary exploration a space for everyone and to “create brave spaces where individuals can discover and claim their stories.”

Founded in 1986, Hayden’s Ferry Review (HFR) is a semi-annual, international literary journal edited by the MFA students at Arizona State University. Work from HFR has been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Poetry, and Best New Poets. HFR has notable pieces in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Mystery Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Thousand Languages features annual translations of HFR and hosts virtual, community-outreach activities to celebrate translation and the voice of our local and global communities.

About the Community of Literary Magazine & Presses [CLMP)]

CLMP ensures a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping mission-driven independent literary magazines and presses thrive. Since 1967, CLMP has provided publishers with funding and technical assistance; facilitated peer-to-peer learning and group action; served as a dependable, essential hub for best practices, resources, and nurturing community support; and connected publishers with other groups of literary stakeholders, including readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, educators, presenting organizations, and funders. To learn more about the Literary Magazine Fund, please visit www.clmp.org/programs-opportunities/lit-mag-fund/

About The Amazon Literary Partnership

Since 2009, the Amazon Literary Partnership has provided more than $16 million in grant funding to more than 160 literary organizations, assisting many thousands of writers. Among the organizations Amazon has supported over the years are the Asian American Writers Workshop, National Book Foundation, PEN America, Poets & Writers, Graywolf Press, Lambda Literary Foundation, Loft Literary Center, National Novel Writing Month, Words Without Borders, Yaddo, WriteGirl, and many more. Through Amazon’s annual grants, Amazon supports literary centers, writing workshops, residencies, fellowships, literary magazines, independent publishers, and poetry and translation programs. Writers supported by some of these organizations have gone on to become best-selling and award-winning authors.

To learn more about the Literary Magazine Fund, visit www.clmp.org/lit-mag-fund.