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"Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction Grants for Women"
 
   I noticed this for the first time in one of my regular visits to Barbara Deming's website.

MONEY FOR WOMEN/BARBARA DEMING MEMORIAL FUND, INC.

Grants in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction

Grants of up to $1,000 are given to U.S. or Canadian poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers "whose work addresses women’s concerns or speaks for peace and justice from a feminist perspective." The awards are given twice a year; the deadlines are June 30 and December 31. Send an SASE for an application and complete guidelines:

Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.
Grants in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction
P.O. Box 630125
Bronx, NY 10463.
Susan Plines, Administrator.

http://homepage.mac.com/dmccabe/money.html

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   Hmm.

I'm always curious about how exactly to speak out for peace through fiction.

I've been told that my fiction has a very strong anti-war theme in the sense that whatever art portrays war authentically is by definition anti-war. But I don't know if this is what this foundation is looking for.


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2. "Ganymede"
 
   Yeah, Ganymede, it would be interesting to get some samples of the work of women who have gotten these awards in the past.

That's interesting, that whatever art portrays war authentically is anti-war. The first book that comes to my mind that way is The Red Badge of Courage. I read that book to the kids some years back-- what a book and what a writer Stephen Crane was.

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   I picked up a copy of Crane's collected works a while back and reread the Red Badge.

I spent some years being obsessed with it when I was between about 9 and 14, and reading it again was good. He made a hell of a statement about religion too-- and I hadn't noticed that the first thirty-seven times around.

I like his ambivalence about war; he wrote Red Badge based on several first person sources, most of which I've read (it's fun to trace his influences) and then he went off to Cuba, I think, to observe the hostilities there. A lot of what he wrote about the regular army is very much like Kipling's soldier stories, and Kipling was quite the warhawk right up until his 18 year old son turned up dead in WWI. I wonder if he and Crane knew each other; it would be fun to look into that... hm, I smell a new research project coming on.

Crane's fascination with bloodshed also reminds me of Robert E Lee's statement that "it is well war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."

Anyway, I've got a paper on how WWI soldiers coped with mortality that the Penn State admissions committee thinks is "quite interesting." It would be "quite interesting" to see if it could net me some money, even if it doesn't get me into my top-choice schools because I couldn't seem to get the official documents in on time. And I've got a short story that is according to my writer's circle anti-war in the Crane sense (but the straight men think I should get rid of the homoeroticism because it makes them all squirmy... so odd the way they freak out when you tweak their beloved avatars of masculinity. I think I'll leave it in). It should be finished sometime in the next few years.


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   I doubt those items are what they're looking for, being as they're about boys. The paper touches on a "gender studies" kind of perspective in that the context the subjects came from was specific to males of a certain time period and includes a brief discussion of the way they understood themselves in relation to women, but isn't explicitly feminist. Although there's nothing about it that's really UN-feminist, either.

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   Wow, Ganymede, I sure know who to talk to when I want to talk about Stephen Crane! http://www.gentlespirit.com/margins/Images/wink.gif";> Or writing about war, period.

How interesting that you were obsessed with Red Badge of Courage as a pre-adolescent-- my older kids, too. That is an unforgettable book and the kids talk about it still when we all get together, or certain parts of it, the part where the living man regards the dead man, up against the tree comes to mind in particular.

I don't think there would be a problem at *all* with your stories being more about boys, at least based on my knowledge of the work of Barbara Deming. Deming was a very cool Second Wave radical feminist but she gave most of her life to the peace movement (and she's a personal hero of mine for that and some other reasons). I would be very surprised if work focusing on boys, men, war would be rejected by her foundation-- it's boys and men, after all, mostly, who make war and fight in war and she made it her life's work to work for peace.

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   I was thinking more about the way the best anti-war books are said to be the ones that are most realistic. When my kids were growing up, I read them a book entitled Coals of Fire published by an Amish-Mennonite (and therefore nonresister) press. This was a book full of true stories of the events in the lives of pacifists and nonresisters through history. In some cases, the people in the stories did not resist or fight back and their lives were spared or they actually became friends with the people who meant to hurt them; in other cases they stood true to their nonresister or pacifist beliefs and they were killed. The stories were very powerful, though, and memorable. In particular I remember one called "The White Feather" about an Amish family attacked by Native Americans at a time when there were raids on white settlers. The family didn't resist or fight back, but simply invited the Native Americans in for food and to rest. In the end, they became friends and the Native Americans put a white feather on their door, which was a sign that the people who lived there were good and decent people. But again, there were other stories where everybody lost their lives. All very powerful though especially in that they were true.

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