The NEA cut their funding. But California’s independent publishers press on

The emails started landing on a Friday evening after work hours.
That’s when independent publishing houses, literary journals, and other arts organizations learned that the National Endowment for the Arts would be canceling grants and withdrawing previously announced awards, effective May 31.
These grants, which had been awarded but not necessarily dispersed, represented $1,227,500 that the NEA had promised to 51 independent publishers.
“All 51 literary magazines and small presses ha