#22: Donate to the Emerging Indigenous Voices Award

Reconciliation means action. The creative vision of emerging Indigenous writers is precious. The Emerging Indigenous Writers award was created to help support and nurture the work of new Indigenous writers. The award is crowd funded because every person, big or small, wealthy or modest in means, can make a difference. We are all the richer when there is space for all of our voices to join the conversation.

My contribution, despite very small at $25 will add to the contributions of many others who are taking up the #150acts challenge.  From that joint effort, I hope this award will inspire incredible writers, and if one happened to be from this region, even better (you know who you are!). That great literary work, whether it is a few prose or a whole novel has the power to change the world, inspire those who wouldn't otherwise had been inspired, to bring a youth to another realm of possibility. In western culture, we have done a disservice to our future, to progress itself, by not supporting the arts as it should be supported. There are men and women of all ages who are on the cusp of greatness, if only they a little bit of support from every one of us. 

Together, the future is ours to shape. Donate today. 

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