Funding

In addition to annual support from the estate of Barbara Deming, the Fund relies on general donations from those interested in sustaining women writers and artists.   

Many of our donors are former grantees who have experienced firsthand the creative affirmation and personal recognition a grant bestows. In some cases, contributors knew Barbara Deming during her life and have personal memories of her inspirational presence. Still other donors simply value women and the unique contributions feminist writers and artists make to our world.

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Some of our grant recipients since 2010 are:

Susan Abulhawa, Claudia Alvarez, Nia Amara, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marion Bell, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Traci Brimhall, Glendaliz Camacho, Melissa Chadburn, Nikia Chaney, Leila Chatti, Barbara Cole, Helena Vallee Dallaire, Carol V. Davis, Cara DeAngelis, Carol Dine, Alda Dobbs, Caitlyn Doyle, Lyndsey Ellis, Laura Ellyn, Melissa Febos, Yalitza Ferraras, Tracy Fuad, Elizabeth Haussler, Barb Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Joy Ann Juvelis, M.J. Kledzik, Tsering Lama, Carol Larson, Sonja Livingston, Elizabeth Malaska, Caitlin Masley, Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Shabnam Piryaei, Nina Puro, Khadijah Queen, Christa Romansky, Amy Rowland, Savannah Sipple, Alexa Smith, Carrie Mae Smith, Monica Sok, Adrienne Su, Terese Svoboda, Kathryn Trueblood, Hope Wabuke, Julia Marie Wade, Voltrina Williams, and Annie Woodford.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women -- whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.  —Barbara Deming