The hits to arts and humanities keep coming. This time affecting our sister agency, #NEA. In addition to the $1.2m already canceled, the Creative Writing Fellowship program has also been cut.
On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying that the program, and their applications, had ...
Fascist hate educated, well-informed critical thinking people.
This action MUST be seen on a larger scale.
"He who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past"
George Orwell "1984"
Here is a list of famous authors who have received NEA recognition: Alice Walker Maxine Hong Kingston Tobias Wolff Sandra Cisneros Louise Erdrich Paul Auster T.C. Boyle Ernest J. Gaines Oscar Hijuelos X.J. Kennedy Just to name a few.
A FREE mind is essential in a FREE society 🧏♂️ The Thought police 🤯
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"Trump has proposed eliminating the NEA..." Not this again. Some previous Administrations have wanted to do the same or make cuts. And it then becomes clear that the arts industry creates jobs. The NEA's has programs helping veterans, projects in every state, etc and so they don't cut it.
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Because all of the good books have already been written?
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