You can find our latest news here: https://linktr.ee/newliteraryproject The New Literary Project invests in students & teachers, readers & authors, and it inspires and equips writers across the generations to write their hearts out. NLP offers writing workshops free of charge for underserved younger writers; celebrates storytellers and storytelling through a major national award to a mid-career author of fiction (the Joyce Carol Oates Prize); and makes possible readings, events, and publication in our annual anthology of Project-connected authors, Simpsonistas. (In fact, and please don’t take this in the wrong way, our literary events make for great parties.) The Project came together in 2016 in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, English Department, the world’s foremost English Department, in the world’s leading public university, and the Lafayette Library and Learning Center. Until April 2021 we called ourselves the Simpson Literary Project, to honor the example set by Sharon Simpson and the late Barclay Simpson, legendary pillars of soulful support for education, the arts, and social justice. Our dear friend Sharon actively continues to engage and inspire us. We have grown. With each successive year we serve more and more students and teachers, readers and writers across the generations in ever-evolving ways. Now, to everything there is a season. It’s a new day, with new challenges, new opportunities, new wrongs to right, new dreams to dream, and hence we have a new name: The New Literary Project.
