2026 Fellowship Award

Rearden will write an epistolary memoir composed of unsent letters addressed to the friends he buried too young, the Yup’ik monsters, and the ghosts that defined his youth, reconstructing a rich and varied life in southwestern Alaska.

Read Don Rearden’s selection of of “ghost letters” from the opening of the memoir in progress.

2020 Project Award (Group Award; Huitzilin)

The artists, Don Rearden and Bryan Allen Fierro, will write an original screenplay for a biopic based on Saúl Armendáriz, aka Cassandro el Exotico. It will explore how Armendáriz, who is openly gay and Indigenous, has challenged prescribed roles in lucha libre, a hypermasculine Mexican wrestling tradition.

2014 Project Award

Rearden will complete a screen adaption of ‘The Raven’s Gift.’