New Literary Project invests in students & teachers, readers & authors, and it inspires and equips writers across the generations to write their hearts out. New Literary Project offers writing workshops free of charge for marginalized younger writers; celebrates storytellers and storytelling through a major national award to a mid-career author of fiction (the Joyce Carol Oates Prize); supports creative writers teaching high school to make time to work on their own projects; and makes possible readings, events, and publication in our annual anthology of Project-connected authors, Simpsonistas.