Michelle Obama Award For Memoir

I'm thrilled to share that @PenguinRandom and @DiverseBooks are launching the Michelle Obama Award for Memoir, a new creative writing award focused on memoir for public high school students.

Apply today and learn more about the $10,000 scholarship: https://t.co/ZEi8SGe6M5 pic.twitter.com/p7B4fkAvyx

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) October 12, 2022

Between Cultures

I felt inspired and hopeful after speaking with students in @TheTellingRoom’s Young Writers & Leaders program. I wrote #APromisedLand in part because I hoped to reach young people like those in this group—the unique voices of a new generation, energized and unafraid to dream big. https://t.co/LP1Ri8Epva

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 18, 2021

'No matter what somebody’s accomplished—the greatest novelist, the greatest surgeons, the greatest political activists—they didn’t start that way' — @BarackObama met with writing students to talk about their ambitions and share his own experience of growing up between cultures pic.twitter.com/6u6i5mPP5m

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) February 18, 2021

genius!

Doodle of Boredom: Barack Obama’s signature is totally a cartoon baby Tyrannosaurus playing with a ball of yarn.

Thank you QuietObserver, love it! 😆

condolence

“My heart goes out to the people of Japan during this enormous tragedy. Please know that America will always stand by one of its greatest allies during their time of need.

Because of the strength and wisdom of its people, we know that Japan will recover and indeed will emerge stronger than ever. And as it recovers, the memory of those who have been lost will remain in our hearts and will serve only to strengthen the friendship between our two countries.

May God Bless the people of Japan.”

President Barack Obama walks out with Japanese Ambassador to US Ichiro Fujisaki after signing the condolence book during his visit the Japanese Embassy in Washington, March 17

President Obama will deliver a statement on Japan at 3:30 PM EDT today – live here