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Amazon Literary Partnership announces over 1 mln USD grant to 80 recipients

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The Amazon Literary Partnership on Thursday announced more than 1 million U.S. dollars in grant funding to 80 nonprofit literary organizations across the United States.

The funding supports groups that are working to empower diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented voices, helping writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive in 2021 and beyond, the announcement said.

In addition, Amazon Literary Partnership has awarded grants of 140,000 dollars each to the Academy of American Poets and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), to be used to fund more than a dozen literary organizations supporting poetry groups and literary magazines.

The Amazon Literary Partnership annual grants have supported more than 150 organizations with 14 million U.S. dollars in grant funding since 2009, according to the announcement.

"We're extremely grateful to work with the Amazon Literary Partnership to support poetry organizations and publishers whose work will be critical to our processing all we've been through in the pandemic and also in envisioning new ways forward," said Jennifer Benka, president and executive director of the Academy of American Poets.

"CLMP is extremely grateful to the Amazon Literary Partnership for their ongoing financial support of these underserved and uniquely vulnerable publishers, especially during this critical time," said CLMP Executive Director Mary Gannon. Enditem

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