Click through The Dialogue to see how residents can transform their projects at YNR. The Yefe Nof Residency is designed as an opportunity to cross-fertilize intelligent ideas in a system less reliant on market forces. Residents are granted between two and four weeks to complete the final stage of their work as part of an ongoing narrative addressing civilization’s most pressing challenges. The two…

This is a new culture in which one rises above oneself to grow. During their stay a resident is encouraged to see his work differently, think more diversely, and be more open to advancing the genetic code of his own material within a more spontaneous context. Yefe Nof is collaborative in the sense that there…

The Yefe Nof Residency is an imaginative process of invention. If perfectionism and over-formality often straightjacket our designs, we see inconsistency as the great enabler of the working creative. How she chooses to use her resources is entirely up to the resident, and outcomes will differ with each approach, but it’s the possibility of getting under…

The Yefe Nof Residency is designed for residents to consider unknown authors and think about their work and not to be strangled by conformity. It requires enormous energy and support to produce a work and bring it to market. We are committed to being a part of that process as it reflects the natural outgrowth of our network. When…

To perpetuate an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded, prejudiced one, we have to guard hope. In his career as a psychologist, Dr. Zvi Leo Soltz gave thousands of people hope. He can give millions more. If egoism flat-lines the shared experience, we want to select creators who promote visions of community. We want authorship…

Category: Promonostory Challenge: Cancer Key Words: father and son, goodbye, melanoma, Alpha Chapters, redesign Created by: Gil Soltz Funded & Produced by: Kickstarter backers, Teg Down Publishing Link: Amazon Description: I took six weeks to write Inspiration Drive from notebooks I filled during the final year of life with my father. In the midst of life,…

Category: Nonfiction Challenge:  Wildland fire practices, effects, and outcomes on the land, ecologies, and human populations Key Words: wildfire, fire ecology, resource management, regional firefighters Created by: Ruth Nolan Funded & Curated by: the Desert Institute Link: YouTube Description: The scope of the book includes a focus on American Indians’ uses of wildfire as a…

Category: Historical Biography Challenge: The event that invented reality television and proved that real-time television news broadcasting could work and could transfix the public. Key Words: breaking-news event, live broadcast, spectacle, American history, tragedy Created by: William Deverell Link: Angel City Press Description: In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the story…

Category: Creative Nonfiction Challenge: perspective on health, racism, climate change, history, and nature, weaving through the lives of rural Californians of color. Key Words: agribusiness, agriculture, topsoil, slaughterhouse, Oxnard, and California geography like never before. Created by: Amanda Kim Links: Literary Hub; Pank Magazine Description: A California childhood told with love and gusto, as illuminating…

Category: Teen and Young Adult Fiction Challenge: The intersectionality of race, sexuality, and gender identity within the frame of a simple love story. Key Words: cisgender, newly-out, gay, transgender, coming-of-age Created by: James Sie Link: HarperCollins Publishers Description: Two boys have been guarding their hearts, until their feelings for each other give them a reason…