by SICA-USA | Apr 26, 2021 | News
SICA-USA is proud to report that we have awarded Emmanuel Williams $300 for his young adult novel Crinolina. From the grant application: Synopsis: As a child Kati was sexually abused by her father. Now, at 16, she has a boyfriend, Timothy. They get on well, but when...
by SICA-USA | Apr 23, 2021 | News
When we think of what makes life worth living, what makes life itself, we think of connection. We were all asked to suspend connection during our year (and counting) of pandemic, in the forms so familiar to us. Social gathering was replaced the world over by staying...
by SICA-USA | Apr 20, 2021 | News
Last week we reported the news that Patrick Morgan had died. See: https://sica-usa.org/news/patrick-morgan-a-remembrance/ At the February 26, 2021 SICA-USA board meeting, we unanimously approved a motion to award Patrick $500 to help offset costs for his memoir, River...
by SICA-USA | Apr 15, 2021 | News, RIP
I became acquainted with Patrick Morgan when he made an application to SICA-USA for a grant for his memoir, written under a pen name and titled: River of Dreams: A Spiritual Memoir. He struggled with the grant application, but finished it and it was presented to the...
by SICA-USA | Apr 11, 2021 | News
I’ve read every book on the Inuit I can find, and my favorite author is Knud Rasmussen. He was born in Greenland and spent his childhood with the Inuit inhabitants, learning to speak like a native and absorbing their culture. After the turn of the century he...
