Twice a year, the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) awards grants to writers and translators worldwide for essay-length works. IAS’ total grant money for 2008 is $4,000, and most grants range from $500 to $1,000. The next application deadline is June 15, 2008, and IAS encourages writers and translators exploring social domination and/or reconstructive visions of a free society to apply. For more information and/or to apply via IAS’ online application.

For the winter 2008 grant round, the IAS received 32 applications, making it one of the most competitive in IAS history. With so many good project proposals, it was truly difficult to choose. The four grantees and their projects are:

Amy Seidenverg, “Apex: Locating Cascadia Forest Defense in Feminism, Anarchism, and Queer Theory,” $500

Anna Elena Torres, “Fraye Arbeter Shtime/Free Voice of Labor: An Anthology of
87 Years of Yiddish Anarchist Writing,” $500

Andy Cornell, “The Movement for a New Society: Consensus, Prefiguration, and Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s,” $500

Daniel Cairns, “Chinese Anarchist Periodicals,” $500

For more details on these and all past IAS grants, see www.anarchiststudies.org/grantrecipients

The IAS, a nonprofit foundation established in 1996 to support the development of anarchism, has funded almost sixty projects by authors from countries around the world, including Argentina, Canada, Lebanon, Ireland, New Zealand, Chile, Nigeria, Mexico, the Philippines, Germany, Uruguay, South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the United States. Other IAS projects include the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT) conference, the Radical Theory Track at the National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR), the biannual magazine “Perspectives on Anarchist Theory,” and a “Mutual Aid” list of speakers available for public talks.

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