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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…