City of Asylum/Detroit’s mission to protect and celebrate free creative expression is supported by the generosity of our donors.

Your one-time or recurring donation allows us to provide safe haven fellowships to endangered writers and artists.

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“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I’ve always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”

— Edwidge Danticat, whose family fled Haiti to escape the Duvalier regime