Grants For Authors, Writers and Poets
Funding to support the literary arts.
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Grants For Authors/Writers
1. [NEW] William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center Residency - For Visual Artists & Writers
The Edward F. Albee Foundation exists to serve writers and visual artists from all walks of life by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. Using talent and need as the sole selection criteria, the Foundation invites all artists to apply. Writers and visual artists are offered individual en-suite bedrooms and separate working studios. Domestic residents receive a $ 2,500 stipend; foreign residents are reimbursed for verified expenses up to $ 2,500.
Deadline: March 16, 2026
2. [NEW] The 2026 Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship - For Emerging Writers of Color
Fellowships will be awarded to two (2) emerging writers of color, each of whom receives a $5,000 award to be spent over a six-month period. The awards are unrestricted. Funds may be used for any purpose that helps the fellows advance their careers, including paying themselves to write. In addition to the cash award, the fellows are given the opportunity to write a piece of criticism or a review for the Democracy Center blog and to deliver a talk at the Democracy Center at JANM on their work.
The focus of this year’s fellowship is visual art. In order to ensure full consideration of your application, please make sure your writing samples provide critical, analytical, or interpretive perspectives on visual art. Although visual art takes many forms and is experienced in many contexts, for the purposes of this award, visual art is defined as a creation that is primarily visual in nature or shown in a museum, gallery, or other space dedicated to visual art.
Deadline: March 16, 2026
3. [NEW] A Public Space Writing Fellowship - For Early-Career Writers
This opportunity supports writers who embrace risk in their work and their own singular vision. Writers who have not yet published a book with a U.S. publisher are invited to apply. The three Fellows selected annually receive editorial support to prepare a piece for publication in the magazine; a $1,000 honorarium; complimentary access to all A Public Space Master Classes during the fellowship year; the opportunity to meet virtually with members of the publishing community and to participate in a public reading.
Deadline: March 31, 2026
4. [NEW] The Ann Petry Award - For Black Writers
This award seeks to publish prose literature by Black authors. It is for a work of previously unpublished prose, either a novel or a collection of short stories or novellas, with a minimum of 150 pages, by a Black writer. The awarded manuscript is selected through an annual submission process. Book publication and $3,000 will be awarded.
Deadline: March 31, 2026
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