Sign up to receive Open Books' monthly e-letter:
author grants, writer grants, support the arts, support writers, donate money to support writers
The Open Books Dead Writers' Society Grant is an award given every year on 6 January to a living writer.
The first grant will be awarded when the percentage of grant money available reaches at least $1000.
Current Total for 2008: $7.50
Open Books' Most Recent Classic Title
by Kahlil Gibran
A book of poetic essays, each of which discusses the fundamental aspects of human experience such as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
Adopt The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
What happens to the money I donate?
25% of revenues goes to a grant to living writers.
25% of revenues goes to various literacy funds.
50% of revenues goes toward funding Open Books to publish more classic titles.
Questions? Write to us
