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By Katy Kennedy | “How can we learn how to be well together?
How can we learn how to best live together?”

By Sam Stella | “I picked up the platter with the ham on it and started toward the dining room table, again. I didn’t get too far when I began bobbling the ham like a baseball.”

By Stephanie Couchell | “Healing is not linear, and life is very much a work in progress.”

By Bernard DeCunha | “Making friends is so much harder as an adult, and the fear of rejection makes it worse.”

Theresa Okokon awarded 2023 Black Writer Fellowship at Follow Your Art Community Studios

By Gregory F. DeLaurier | “He knew the forest would be back to greet him in a few months, green and lush, but he was never certain of this, as nothing is permanent.”

By Brad Wall and Heidi Reynolds | “Here we go into tranquility with the silence/Of our voices and troubles melting away without violence.”

By Cameron Dryden and Sara Gravante | “When you breathe in, I breathe out. When you need succor from sun, wind, or rain, I oblige.”

“The Foundation Trust fellowship supports so many aspects of writing beyond just the financial component…. There is no doubt in my mind that the fellowship has both increased the visibility of my book and the richness of my writing.” –Neema Avashia 2022 Writing and Teaching Fellow at FYACS

By Chiara Pieri and Aimee Robinson | “The day you were born/You were destined for greatness/Lyrical Justice.”

By Olivia Frakt | “As a young person, there’s a lot of pressure to look and act a certain way, making creative outlets like writing and producing art vital to self-expression.”