After Dinner Conversation Receives Grant from Arizona Commission on the Arts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: [Kolby Granville, Editor After Dinner Conversation]
DATE: 8/17/2025
AFTER DINNER CONVERSATION RECEIVES GRANT FROM ARIZONA COMMISSION ON THE ARTS
After Dinner Conversation of Tempe, Arizona has been awarded a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, an agency of the State of Arizona. The grant was one of 375 grants awarded this year to nonprofit arts organizations, arts festivals, and arts learning programs throughout the state, representing a total investment of $2,546,273.
“Grants like this matter so much to literary arts organizations like ours. And now, more than ever, our mission to bring respectful conversation about things that matter is necessary. We are thrilled the arts commission, and Arizona, understands and supports the arts in all forms.” ~ Kolby Granville
The grant will support After Dinner Conversation’s work over the coming year by helping fund its monthly short story fiction literary magazine. After Dinner Conversation’s monthly print and digital literary magazine is available directly through the website, as well as through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, Substack, and via digital library apps Libby, Hoopla, and Overdrive, among others. Just search “After Dinner Conversation Magazine.”
“Through the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the State of Arizona endeavors to ensure that all Arizonans can participate in and experience the arts. Through these grants the Arts Commission partners with organizations across the state that are dedicated to serving their communities through the arts.” ~ Christina You-sun Park, Executive Director of the Arizona Commission on the Arts
In accordance with the Arts Commission’s strategic plan and governing statutes, schools and nonprofit arts organizations are awarded grants based on such factors as quality of programming, public benefit, and responsible stewardship of public funds.
Grant applications are reviewed within rigorous panel processes which are open to applicants as well as the broader public. Review panels are led by Governor-appointed Commissioners and are composed of diverse community leaders, volunteer experts, educators and arts practitioners from rural, urban and suburban areas throughout Arizona.
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