{"id":510,"date":"2010-05-13T07:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2010-05-13T07:23:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:23:42","slug":"summer-grant-deadlines-for-writers-and-an-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Summer grant deadlines for writers (and an aside)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/philippeleroyer\/698924329\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1060\/698924329_9dec2627fe_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favourite blogger Mira Bartok has posted a new list of fellowships, grants and prizes for writers: for lesbian writers, poets (gay, straight or otherwise), Romance-language writers, non-fiction specialists (like yours truly) and the <strong>Money for Women\/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund<\/strong> grant that I won last year. <a href=\"http:\/\/miraslist.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/big-fellowships-grants-for-writers.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MirasList+%28MIRA%27S+LIST%29\">Check out Mira&#8217;s List here.<\/a> Tell her I sent you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara Deming<\/strong> (of the aforementioned Fund), a feminist and lesbian poet, writer, and civil rights activist founded the <strong>Money for Women Fund<\/strong> (that now carries her name) in 1975. She died\u00a0 of cancer in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>On her deathbed, Deming wrote a letter that the chair of her foundation now sends its fellows.<\/p>\n<p>The letter moved me to tears when I read it. I plan to keep it forever, since it reminds me to honour those who went before me and to learn from their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May all be made whole,&#8221; wrote Deming. I love that.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the letter:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To so many of you: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I have loved my life so very much and I have loved you so very much and felt so blessed at the love you have given me. I love the work so many of us have been trying to do together and had looked forward to continuing this work but I just feel no more strength in me now and I want to die. I won&#8217;t lose you when I die and I won&#8217;t leave you when I die. Some of you I have especially loved and felt beloved by and I hope you know that even though I haven&#8217;t had the strength lately to reach out to you. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I love you. Hallowed be (may all be made whole), I want you to know, too, that I die happily. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Bobbie (Barbara) Deming<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Naples Community Hospital. Naples, Florida. 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