ADROIT JOURNAL
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Mission Statement
The Adroit Journal nurtures emerging writers and facilitates visibility, mentorship, and community for writers and readers who are not traditionally invited to the table. Put simply, our mission is to publish literature that makes people feel seen.
About This Cause
In November 2010, high school sophomore Peter LaBerge founded The Adroit Journal. As an emerging young writer, Peter felt discouraged by the professional literary industry, which was closed off to those considering a writing career in their most formative years—especially given the large-scale under-funding of literary outreach and engagement programs, departments, and initiatives at most schools in America and around the world. That impulse has expanded from creating a space for young writers like himself to creating a literary home for all writers and readers, but especially for those traditionally marginalized by race, gender, sexual orientation, geography, or economic status. Over the years, The Adroit Journal has grown into a globally-recognized independent literary magazine. Adroit has received praise in the New York Times, Best American Poetry, the Paris Review, the New Yorker, the Pushcart Prizes: Best of the Small Presses, Teen Vogue, NPR, and many more. We have featured new and original work by numerous writers who have received Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, Pushcart Prizes, National Book Critics Circle Awards, T.S. Eliot Prizes, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards, Guggenheim Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and MacArthur Genius Grants. Adroit’s success comes not only from its artistic excellence but also from its commitment to broadening the definition of ‘artistic excellence’ our literary community uses. From the beginning, innovation has defined Adroit. Over the years, we have developed a staff of over 140 globally-based volunteers aged between 16 and 76, offering a collection of diverse perspectives that define our aesthetic. The quality and innovation of our work have drawn an equally diverse worldwide readership of over 250,000 people. While The Adroit Journal has broadened well beyond the young writer, we have not forgotten our original intention to provide an accessible online space for young writers from around the world. We founded the Adroit Prizes for Poetry and Prose in 2012 to celebrate young writers. In 2013, we founded the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, a low-cost online program that pairs high school poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers from around the world with established writers for the summer. Then, in 2018, we initiated the Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program in Poetry, which is a stipend opportunity for young poets without a full-length collection. Six scholars are chosen every year for this recognition by our editors. We publish a portfolio of their work, which is featured during an installment of our reading series. In 2022, we launched the Anthony Vesana So Scholars Program for Prose. Ultimately, our magazine and programs all serve our core editorial mission--to create spaces where readers and writers who find themselves shut out of the traditional literary landscape are heard, respected, and nurtured.