Updated August 2015
This list is intended for your planning purposes. It is our hope that you will be able to use it to determine which agencies might fund your research, find more information by visiting their websites, and use what you learn to develop a personal external funding list that will help you stay on task as you prepare your applications.
To navigate , keep this document in layout view, scroll to the table of contents, then click on the page number of the agency or program in which you’re interested. This will take you directly to that entry. If you then wish to learn more, click on the agency’s website address (URL). If clicking doesn’t work, copy the URL, paste it into the address line of your web browser, and type return. Some agencies had not updated their websites at the time this document was compiled, so do check the agency websites and read application instructions carefully.
Although this document focuses largely on fellowships for individual work, it includes a few instances of institutional grants and fellowships. You can submit individual fellowship and grant applications entirely on your own or though the Humanities Grant Development Office (HGDO). Institutional proposals (those requiring submission by a 501(c)3 non profit organization) must be submitted on your behalf by the University of Kansas
Center for Research, Inc. (KUCR).
Applicants must make a firm commitment of their time and focus in order to develop competitive grant and fellowship proposals. Because most agencies have deadlines only once each year and take from three to eight months to announce awards, this requires long-term planning. A simple individual fellowship or small grant application can be prepared in four to six weeks. That is not the case for institutional grant proposals. Because of the complexity of such applications, the frequent need to interface with agency program officers, and the necessity for institutional approval and submission it is critical to begin working on them a minimum of four months and preferably six months prior to the agency's deadline in order to compete successfully. If you have collaborators, especially at other institutions, extend your grant proposal development timeline to accommodate the interfaces and required agreements between institutions and among collaborators. Federal agencies typically post guidelines only six to eight weeks before the deadline. In such cases, you can work from the previous year's guidelines and aim for the last known deadline, then tweak materials as may be necessary after the agency posts new instructions. HGDO staff will be glad to talk with you about your research funding strategies and help you create your proposal development timeline, as well as work with you to develop and submit your external applications, whether directly or through KUCR.
As you plan, please keep in mind that the internal deadline to submit all final materials to the HGDO is five
(5) working days prior to the agency’s deadline. If requesting a full review and comments, the deadline to submit final drafts is ten (10) working days prior to the agency's deadline.
To take full advantage our services, you need to begin working with us on fellowships a minimum of four weeks prior to the agency's deadline. The timeline for institutional grants is much longer, as noted above. KUCR also has an internal deadline of five (5) working days for all final application materials. HGDO can serve as your interface with KUCR, if you begin working with us early enough to allow us to provide this service.
This list is not exhaustive. If you know of other sources, please let us know. If you find nothing here that might help you, go to http://pivot.cos.com and conduct a search specific to your needs. Access to this online database is free to KU scholars (including students) courtesy of KUCR and offers the most comprehensive and dependable compilation of funding opportunities currently available. You can access it from any KU computer or, if KU is your service provider, from your computer at home.
Humanities Grant Development Office
Kathy Porsch, Research Development Officer: kporsch@ku.edu • 785/864-7834
Bobbi Rahder, Research Development Specialist: brahder@ku.edu • 785/864-7833
Graduate Assistant Research Development Specialists: hgdo@ku.edu • 785/864-7887 http://hallcenter.ku.edu/humanities-grant-development-office

A Room of Her Own Gift of Freedom Award (AROHO) .................................................................................. 1
Academy of American Poets ............................................................................................................................... 1
Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences -- Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
 .............. 1
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) ................................................................................................................ 1
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship ........................................................................................................ 1
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ............................................................................................................................. 1
Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation
 ................................................................................................................ 2
Bellwether Prize for Fiction ................................................................................................................................ 2
Berlin Prizes ........................................................................................................................................................ 2
Brown University -- George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation ............................................................ 2
Bucknell University -- Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing .................................................................... 2
Columbus State University, Carson McCullers Center -- Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers
............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant .................................................................................... 3
Djerassi Resident Artists Program ...................................................................................................................... 3
Edward F. Albee Foundation .............................................................................................................................. 3
William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center. .................................................................................................. 3
Emory University MARBL Fellowships ............................................................................................................. 3
Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellowship ........................................................................................................ 4
Furthermore Publishing Grants
 ....................................................................................................................... 4
Harvard University’s Houghton Library -- Visiting Fellowships ....................................................................... 4
Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ............................................................................ 4
James Merrill House Writer-in-Residence Program ........................................................................................... 4
Kate Tufts Discovery Award .............................................................................................................................. 4
Kenyon Review Fellowships ............................................................................................................................... 5
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award .............................................................................................................................. 5
MacDowell Colony, Inc. ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) -- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships ........................................... 5
Michigan Author Award ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc. .......................................................................................................................... 6
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship ............................................................. 6
National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
 .................................. 6
National Science Foundation -- Antarctic Artists and Writers Program ............................................................. 6
New Issues Poetry and Prose .............................................................................................................................. 6
New York Public Library -- Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers ......................... 6
Open Society Foundations -- Soros Justice Fellowships .................................................................................... 7
PEN American Center
 ..................................................................................................................................... 7
Princeton University, Lewis Center for the Arts -- Hodder Fellowship .............................................................. 7
Rattle Poetry Prize ............................................................................................................................................... 7
Seattle Pacific University -- The Milton Fellowship........................................................................................... 7
Stanford University Creative Writing Program -- Wallace Stegner Fellowship ................................................. 8
The Bard Fiction Prize ........................................................................................................................................ 8
The Poetry Foundation ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships ..................................................................................... 8
The Rockefeller Foundation -- Bellagio Center Literary Arts Residencies ........................................................ 8
The Surdna Foundation -- Artists Engaging in Social Change ........................................................................... 8
University of Arizona Poetry Center ................................................................................................................... 8
University of Las Vegas -- Eadington Fellowships in Gaming Research ........................................................... 9
University of Texas -- Dobie Paisano Fellowships ............................................................................................. 9
The Ralph A. Johnston Memorial Fellowship.................................................................................................................. 9
The Jesse H. Jones Writing Fellowship ........................................................................................................................... 9
University of Victoria -- The Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Fellowship (CSRS) .......................... 9
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University of Virginia -- Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture .... 9
Valparaiso University -- Lilly Fellows Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships ....................................................... 9
Washington College -- C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience ..................................... 10
The Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship ....................................................................................................... 10
Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship ................................................................................................................................. 10
National Endowment for the Arts ..................................................................................................................... 10
National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC).............................................................................. 10
Foundation Center, Foundation Grants to Individuals Online .......................................................................... 10
Funds for Writers
 .......................................................................................................................................... 11
National Writers Union
(NWU) ..................................................................................................................... 11
PIVOT (formerly Community of Science) Funding Opportunities Database ................................................... 11
Poets and Writers Magazine Grants and Awards Database .............................................................................. 11
Scholarships, Fellowships, and Postdoctoral Awards in Media Communications
 ....................................... 11
WritersDigest.com
 ........................................................................................................................................ 11
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SELECTED FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CREATIVE WRITING
A Room of Her Own Gift of Freedom Award (AROHO)
AROHO provides a biennial $50,000 award to a female writer who demonstrates solid creative goals and has a specific project to accomplish during the two-year term of the grant; remaining finalists receive
$5,000. The online entry fee is $35 ($45 for a hard copy). Eligible are works of Poetry, Playwriting,
Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction .
Grant winners agree to a “moral” contract requiring them to commit to a specific goal resulting in a finished work. They receive mentorship and support throughout the grant period, and as a result give back to AROHO Foundation by going on to mentor successive Gift of
Freedom recipients.
URL: http://aroomofherownfoundation.org/awards/gift-of-freedom/
Deadline: November 2 (last known deadline)
Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets provides the most important collection of awards for poetry in the
United States, ranging from $1,000 to $100,000. Guidelines and entry forms are provided, where applicable.
URL: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/61
Deadline: Various
Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences -- Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
The Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting program is an international competition open to screenwriters who have not earned more than $25,000 writing for film or television before the end of the competition.
Entry scripts must be the original work of one author or of no more than two collaborative authors.
Entries must have been written originally in English. Adaptations and translated scripts are not eligible.
Up to five $35,000 fellowships are awarded each year.
URL: http://www.oscars.org/awards/nicholl/apply.html
Deadline: March 2 ($40 entry fee), April 10 ($55 entry fee), May 1 ($75 entry fee)
American Antiquarian Society (AAS)
AAS provides visiting fellowships for creative and performing artists, writers, filmmakers, journalists, and other persons who are engaged in historical research with the goal of producing imaginative, nonformulaic works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history. Successful applicants are those whose work is aimed at the general public rather than at academic or educational audiences. The fellowships include up to four weeks at the Society located in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a stipend of up to $1,350 and free rent for those fellows choosing to reside on campus and a stipend of $1,850 for those choosing to reside off campus. Applications must arrive by the deadline.
URL: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/artistfellowship.htm
Deadline: October 5
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
This award provides a $54,000 for twelve months of travel abroad by an American poet at any level. At the end of the year, the poet must submit at least three poems to the committee administering the award, and if these poets are considered of sufficient merit, they may extend the scholarship for a second year.
Applications must arrive in hard copy by the deadline. The poet must be a US citizen to be eligible.
URL: http://www.amylowell.org/instructions.htm
Deadline: October 15
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognizes books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. Only books written in English and published in the preceding calendar year are eligible. Works of fiction, nonfiction, and
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poetry are eligible for the prize, which is traditionally $10,000. Plays and screenplays are not eligible, nor are works in progress, manuscripts or self-published works, and no grants are made for completing or publishing manuscripts.
URL: http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/Submissions/
Deadline: December 31
Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation
The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation awards grants annually to writers in three rotating disciplines:
Theatre, Full-length Fiction, and Short Stories. All works submitted must be LGBT-themed and based on, or inspired by, a historic person, culture, event, or work of art. Grants are for $3,000. The Foundation also offers grants (usually of $3,000) to production companies to offset the expenses of producing gay-positive theatrical works based on history.
URL: http://aabbfoundation.org/wp/comp-guidelines
Deadline: June 30 (last known deadline)
Bellwether Prize for Fiction
The Bellwether Prize promotes fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships. It is awarded to a previously unpublished novel representing excellence in this genre. The prize $25,000 and a publishing contract with Algonquin Books is awarded biennially.
URL: http://www.pen.org/content/penbellwether-prize-socially-engaged-fiction-25000
Deadline: August 15
Berlin Prizes
The American Academy in Berlin offers residential fellowships to emerging as well as established scholars, writers, and professionals who wish to engage in independent study in Berlin. Fellowships are typically awarded for an academic semester or, in some cases, for an entire academic year. Only the
Bosch Fellowships in Public Policy may be for shorter stays of six to eight weeks. Fellowship benefits include round-trip airfare, housing at the Academy, partial board, and a stipend of $5,000 per month.
URL: http://www.americanacademy.de/home/fellows/applications/
Deadline: September 30
Brown University -- George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
The foundation offers $33,000 fellowships on a five-year rotation of fields in the Liberal and Fine Arts.
The focus of the 2016-17 fellowship is on Creative Non-Fiction, Literary Translation into English, Film
Studies, and Literary Studies.
The fellowship is targeted at early mid-career individuals. Applicants should have completed their formal studies within the past five to fifteen years and have successfully completed at least one major project beyond degree requirements sufficient for the awarding of tenure at a research institution or for achieving comparable peer recognition, e.g., through publication or exhibition .
Full professors are not normally eligible for a Howard Fellowship. Applicants must be professionally based in the US by affiliation or residence.
URL: http://www.brown.edu/initiatives/howard-foundation/
Deadline: November 15
Bucknell University -- Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing
This creative writing residency offers an emerging writer up to four months of unfettered writing time.
The award is intended to allow the writer to complete a first or second book. It includes lodging on campus, an office in the Stadler Center for Poetry, and a stipend of $5,000. The Residence is awarded to writers of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction) and poets on an alternating basis.
URL: http://www.bucknell.edu/centers-institutes-and-resources/stadler-center-for-poetry/programs-andresidencies/philip-roth-residences-in-creative-writing.html
Deadline: February 1
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Columbus State University, Carson McCullers Center -- Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers
This fellowship is for the fall semester of 2016, to begin September 1 and end December 1. The Smith-
McCullers Fellow will reside in a spacious private apartment in the Smith-McCullers House and receive with a stipend of $5,000 to cover costs of transportation, food and other incidentals. Fellowship recipients will be required to introduce their work through reading or workshop/forum presentations. Fellows will work with the McCullers Center Director to plan a presentation near the end of the residency.
URL: http://www.mccullerscenter.org/fellowships.php
Deadline: April 01
Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
The Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through project-based grants issued directly to individual authors. Project-based grants are available in the following categories: article, blog, book, new and alternative media, and shortform writing (texts of 1,000 words or less). The Foundation funds writing that identifies and explores pressing issues in the contemporary visual arts and texts that “illuminate the value contemporary art holds for all viewers through its ability to complicate and enrich our understanding of our world and ourselves and through its ability to offer a space of freedom from and critical engagement with prevailing norms.”
Grant amounts range from $15,000 to $50,000. A letter of inquiry is required and invitations to submit applications are sent in mid-July.
URL: http://artswriters.org/
Deadline: May 21 (last known deadline)
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Residencies are awarded competitively, at no cost, to national and international artists in the disciplines of choreography, literature, music composition, visual arts, and media arts/new genres. We seek applications from emerging and mid-career artists, for whom appointments as resident artists may make a significant difference to their careers, as well as from established artists with national and/or international reputations. Those selected are offered living and studio space for 30 days during the season that runs from mid-April through mid-November. There is a $45 application fee.
URL: http://www.djerassi.org/apply.html
Deadline: March 15
Edward F. Albee Foundation
William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center.
The Edward F. Albee Foundation maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center in Montauk, on Long Island, NY, as a residence for writers, painters, and sculptors. Residencies are for 4 or 6-week periods of time, and residents receive a room, but are responsible for their food, travel, and other expenses. No stipend is available. Applications must be sent via regular USPS mail only and must be postmarked by the deadline.
URL: http://www.albeefoundation.org/
Deadline: January 1
Emory University MARBL Fellowships
Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL) offers a number of fellowships to support scholarly use of the Library's research collections in the following strategic areas:
English-language literature, the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, African American history and culture, Southern history and culture, and modern politics. Stipends range from $500 – $2,500, and residencies generally span from two to four weeks.
URL: http://marbl.library.emory.edu/research-learning/fellowships.html
Deadline: November 1
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Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellowship
The Center offers residency for writers and visual artists in the early stages of their careers. Fellows must be resident in Provincetown during the seven-month fellowship (October 1 – April 30). They are provided living accommodations and a monthly stipend of $750. A professing fee of $45 is required to apply.
URL: http://www.fawc.org/
Deadline: January 1 (Writing Fellowship); January 31 (Visual Arts Fellowship)
Furthermore Publishing Grants
Applications from 501(c)(3) organizations are being accepted for grants to assist in publishing nonfiction books. Grants from individuals cannot be accepted. Book proposals to which a university press, nonprofit or trade publisher is already committed and for which there is a feasible distribution plan are usually preferred. Recipients of Furthermore grants are located throughout the US and abroad but mainly in New
York City and New York State and its Hudson Valley. Grants range from $1,500 to $15,000.
URL: http://www.furthermore.org/
Deadline: March 1 and September 1
Harvard University’s Houghton Library -- Visiting Fellowships
Houghton Library, the principal rare book and manuscript library of Harvard College, documents the history of Western civilization. It awards fellowships in areas such as theatre, graphic arts, publishing history, and descriptive bibliography. Preference is given to scholars whose research is closely based on materials in Houghton collections, especially when those materials are unique. Fellows are expended to be in residence for at least four weeks. The stipend for each fellowship is $3,600.
URL: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/public_programs/visiting_fellowships.cfm
Deadline: January 15 (last known deadline)
Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
NOTE: If so directed, Radcliffe will pay the stipend to the fellow's home institution. This is important for purposes of receiving Supplemental Salary Funding to make up salary any salary/fringe shortfall.
Radcliffe Institute Fellowships support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment that wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. The Radcliffe Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society; however, projects need not focus on gender. Stipends are up to $75,000 for one year with additional funding for project expenses. Some support for relocation expenses is provided.
URL: http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/apply.aspx
Deadline: September 24 (Creative Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences); October 15 (Natural
Sciences, Mathematics)
James Merrill House Writer-in-Residence Program
The James Merrill House offers a four and a half month residency between mid-January and the end of
May, and three or four shorter residencies of two to six weeks during the months between Labor Day and mid-January. The residential fellowship provides living and working space to a writer who is willing to engage with the Stonington, CT community through workshops, public readings, and discussion groups while in residence. The Writer-in-Residence program includes a stipend of $1,000 per month, pro-rated according to length of stay.
URL: http://www.jamesmerrillhouse.org/application.htm
Deadline: January 15
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
This award is presented annually for a first book by a poet of promise. Work must be original poetry written originally in English by a poet who is a citizen or legal resident of the United States. The work may be submitted by its author or, with the poet's consent, by a publisher, agent, or other representative.
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The work submitted must be a book published between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015. Applications must be postmarked by the deadline. Amount: $10,000.
URL: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/8611.asp
Deadline: July 1
Kenyon Review Fellowships
This two-year post-graduate residential fellowship at Kenyon College offers qualified individuals time to develop as writers, teachers, and editors. Fellows will receive a $33,800 stipend, plus health benefits.
Requirements include teaching one course each semester in the English Department of Kenyon College, and assisting with the online and print editions of the Kenyon Review .
URL: http://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/fellowship/
Deadline: September 15
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
This award is presented annually to an emerging poet, one who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career. The work submitted must be a book published between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015. Work must be original poetry written originally in English by a poet who is a citizen or legal resident of the United States. Applications must be postmarked by the deadline. Amount: $100,000.
URL: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/8610.asp
Deadline: July 1
MacDowell Colony, Inc.
MacDowell accepts Artists in Residence applications from creative writers as well as artists working architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, music composition, theatre, and visual arts.
The maximum residence at the Colony in Peterborough, NH, is two months. Residents receive room, board, and the exclusive use of a studio. Fellowships are available for summer, fall, and winter periods. A processing fee of $30 is required.
URL: http://www.macdowellcolony.org/apply.html
Deadline: Winter: September 15; Summer: January 15; Fall: April 15
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) -- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences awards Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships to promising young scholars working at the intersection of humanities disciplines, or between the humanities and other disciplines. Appointments are for two years, effective July 1, 2016. Fellows will teach one course in the spring semester of the first year and one per semester the following academic year, and will be in residence at MIT during this time. Applicants must indicate in which of the four participating programs they would like to be located during their residency: Comparative Media
Studies/Writing, Literature, Global Studies and Languages, Music and Theater Arts. The salary is $64,500 per year with standard benefits, and each Fellow will receive a research fund of $1,000 to cover travel and other costs associated with research and professional development
.
URL: http://shass.mit.edu/graduate/mellon_postdoctoral_fellowship
Deadline: January 15
Michigan Author Award
This award of $1,000 recognizes an outstanding published body of fiction, poetry, or play scripts. To qualify, nominees must be current Michigan residents, recently relocated long-time Michigan residents, or authors whose works are identified with Michigan. A panel of judges representing a broad spectrum of expertise in writing, publishing and book collecting determines the recipient on overall literary merit.
URL: http://www.milibraries.org/about/michigan-author-award/
Deadline: February 28
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Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc.
Each year Millay Colony invites 52 visual artists, writers and composers for colony residencies, ranging in duration from five days (group artists) to one month (individual artists). There is no stipend; rooms, studios, and meals are provided. A $35 (US dollars) fee or a $50 fee for the Extended Deadline is required for both online application and mail in applications.
URL: http://www.millaycolony.org/residencies
Deadline: March 1 and October 1
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship
The NEA offers $25,000 fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) or poetry to published creative writers. Fellowships are intended to enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, and travel. The NEA Literature Fellowships program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years. The 2016-17 application cycle is for prose.
URL: http://arts.gov/grants-individuals/creative-writing-fellowships
Deadline: March 11
National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
Scholarly Editions Grants support the preparation of editions or translations of texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Projects involving significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials are typical in this grant program, but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible. A team of at least one editor or translator and one other staff member must undertake projects. Awards are made for one to three years and normally range from $50,000 to
$100,000 per year.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/editions.html
Deadline: December 9
National Science Foundation -- Antarctic Artists and Writers Program
The Antarctic Artists and Writers Program supports writing and artistic projects specifically designed to increase understanding and appreciation of the Antarctic and of human activities on the southernmost continent. It furnishes operational support and round-trip economy air tickets between the United States and the Southern Hemisphere. The Program does not support short-term projects that are essentially journalistic in nature, and does not provide any funding to participants.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503518
Deadline: May 2
New Issues Poetry and Prose
New Issues Poetry & Prose offers two contests annually, each of which come with $2,000 and publication of a book of poems. The Green Rose Prize is awarded to an author who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. The New Issues Poetry Prize, an award for a first book of poems, is chosen by a guest judge. A $25.00 reading fee is required for the Green Rose Prize, and a $20.00 reading fee is required for the New Issues Poetry Prize.
URL: http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/sub-guide.html
Deadline: September 30 (Green Rose Prize); November 30 (New Issues Poetry Prize)
New York Public Library -- Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
The Center funds an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit from access to the research collections in the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets)
. Fellows receive a stipend of $70,000, an office, a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources. Fellows are in-residence at the Center for the duration of the fellowship term
(September-May).
URL: http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/cullman-center-scholars-writers
Deadline: September 26
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Open Society Foundations -- Soros Justice Fellowships
This program funds projects aimed at advancing reform, spurring debate, or catalyzing change on issues facing the US criminal justice system. This is part of a larger effort to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the US by challenging the overreliance on incarceration and extreme punishment, and ensuring a fair and accountable system of justice. Fellowships support creative writes as well as lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, researchers, print and broadcast journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinct voices. Stipends range from $58,700–$110,250 and fall into two categories:
Advocacy Fellowships (18 months) and Media Fellowships (one year).
URL: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/soros-justice-fellowships
Deadline: October 21
PEN American Center
A membership association of prominent literary writers and editors, the PEN American Web site offers many useful resources for grants, awards and other creative writing competitions, with awards ranging from $2,000 to $25,000.
URL: http://www.pen.org/literary-awards
Deadline: Various (most August 15)
Princeton University, Lewis Center for the Arts -- Hodder Fellowship
The $79,000 Hodder Fellowship is for artists, including creative writers, in the early stages of their careers. Most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields. The award provides Fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant work. Fellows spend two consecutive 10-month academic years pursuing independent projects.
URL: http://www.princeton.edu/arts/lewis_center/society_of_fellows/
Deadline: September 14
Rattle Poetry Prize
The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers a 1 st prize of $10,000 for a single poem and prizes of $200 to ten finalists, and be eligible for the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote . All winning poems are published in the winter issue of RATTLE , and additional entries are frequently offered publication as well. Applications consist of a manuscript, an $18 entry fee, and a oneyear subscription to Rattle.
URL: http://www.rattle.com/poetry/prize/about/
Deadline: July 15 for e-mailed entries; postmarked by July 15 for mailed submissions
Sawtooth Poetry Prize from Ahsahta Press
The Sawtooth Poetry Prize honors a book of original poetry in English by one author; translations are not eligible for this award. The winning poet receives a $1,500 honorarium upon publication plus 25 copies of the published book, which will be featured on the Ahsahta website. Entry fee is $25.00.
URL: https://ahsahtapress.org/open-submissions/sawtooth-poetry-prize/
Deadline: March 1
Seattle Pacific University -- The Milton Fellowship
The Milton Postgraduate Fellowship offers a new writer of Christian commitment the opportunity to complete their first book-length manuscript of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. The fellowship duration is one academic year at Seattle Pacific University, from mid-September to mid-June. The fellow will live in an apartment rent-free for the nine months of the academic year. Utilities and internet are covered. Fellows also receive a $500 monthly stipend, as well as health and dental coverage. SPU will pay them a small monthly salary for their adjunct teaching position.
URL: http://imagejournal.org/fellowship-opportunities/
Deadline: March 15
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Stanford University Creative Writing Program -- Wallace Stegner Fellowship
Stanford offers ten two-year fellowships each year, five in fiction and five in poetry. The fellows in each genre convene weekly in a 3-hour workshop with faculty. Fellows are regarded as working artists, intent upon practicing and perfecting their craft. There are no curricular requirements other than workshop attendance and writing. Fellowships include a living stipend of $26,000. In addition, fellows' tuition and health insurance are covered. The Stegner Fellowship is not intended to be pursued concurrently with a degree program. Fellows must live close enough to Stanford to attend workshops, readings, and events.
URL: http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/about-the-fellowship
Deadline: December 1
The Bard Fiction Prize
The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to a promising, emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application. The winner receives a monetary award of $30,000 and an appointment as writer in residence at Bard College for one semester, without any requirement to teach traditional courses. The recipient gives at least one public lecture and meets informally with students.
URL: http://www.bard.edu/bfp/
Deadline: June 15 (last known deadline)
The Poetry Foundation
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
Five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships in the amount of $25,800 each will be awarded to young poets in the US through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.
All US poets between 21 and 31 years of age are eligible to apply.
URL: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes_fellowship
Deadline: October 5 (last known deadline)
The Rockefeller Foundation -- Bellagio Center Literary Arts Residencies
The Bellagio Arts & Literary Arts residency is for composers, fiction and non-fiction writers, playwrights, poets, video/filmmakers, and visual artists. The residency is for artists seeking time for disciplined work, reflection, and collegial engagement with a diverse community of academics, practitioners, and artists. The Center offers stays of two to four weeks, in a community of 15 fellows.
URL: http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-center/residency-program/
Deadline: December 1
The Surdna Foundation -- Artists Engaging in Social Change
The Surdna Foundation offers one or two years of support for artist-driven projects. All artistic disciplines are considered, including creative writing and cross-disciplinary work. The request for proposal (RFP) is open to both 501(c)(3) organizations and individual artists and culture bearers, but individual artists and collectives must apply under a fiscal sponsor (KU faculty must submit through KUCR.). This program supports compelling projects developed in response to an applicant's community's challenges based on the applicant's long-term, deeply-rooted work to increase social engagement.
URL:http://www.surdna.org/rfp?utm_source=AESC+RFP+Sept+2014+%28EMB%29&utm_campaign=r fp_aesc_emb&utm_medium=email
Deadline: November 12 (last known; suspended for 2015-16)
University of Arizona Poetry Center
The Poetry Center awards one residency each summer for a poet to spend two weeks in Tucson, Arizona developing his/her work. Writers at any stage of their careers may apply; emerging writers are welcome.
The residency includes a $500 stipend and a two-week stay in a studio apartment near the Center’s library of contemporary poetry. The residency is offered between June 1 and August 31.
URL: http://poetry.arizona.edu/awards-residencies/overview
Deadline: December 16 (last known deadline)
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University of Las Vegas -- Eadington Fellowships in Gaming Research
The William R. Eadington fellowships at the University of Las Vegas (UNLV) facilitate research into both gambling and Las Vegas. Although primarily in English, UNLV Special Collections holds many texts in French, German, and Italian spanning the 17th to 21st centuries as well as manuscript collections, casino corporate archives, promotional and publicity files, and government publications. Residencies range from two to four weeks, and carry stipends between $1,500 and $3,000.
URL: http://gaming.unlv.edu/about/fellowship.html
Deadline: July 23
University of Texas -- Dobie Paisano Fellowships
Sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, these fellowships provide residency at J. Frank Dobie’s ranch house on 250 acres located twenty minutes west of Austin.
These fellowships are for creative or non-fiction writers who are native Texans, who have lived in Texas for three years or more, or whose work deals extensively with Texas life and culture. Each fellowship has a $20, there is a $30 application fee if applying for both fellowships.
The Ralph A. Johnston Memorial Fellowship.
Successful applicants have usually published at least one critically well-received book or an impressive list of published essays, articles, poems, stories, etc. Though residency lengths vary, they occur in the fall (September 1-December 31), and writers receive a living stipend of $6,250 per month.
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/Paisano/
Deadline: January 15 (last known deadline)
The Jesse H. Jones Writing Fellowship
This fellowship is aimed at writers at the start of careers who have already had some publishing success. Though residency lengths vary, they occur in the spring (February 1-July 31), and writers receive a living stipend of $3,000 per month.
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/Paisano/
Deadline: January 15 (last known deadline)
University of Victoria -- The Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Fellowship (CSRS)
CSRS invites applications from working artists, including creative writers, and MFA students interested in conducting projects within the its community of multidisciplinary scholars and students. The fellowship awards $3,500 for a minimum four-month and a maximum twelve-month term, and the position provides a centrally located private office space on the scenic University of Victoria campus.
URL: http://csrs.uvic.ca/Awardsandfellowships/artist.php
Deadline: April 20 (last known deadline)
University of Virginia -- Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and
Culture
The Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture at the University of
Virginia administers the Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American Literature and the William A.
Elwood Fellowship in Civil Rights and African-American Studies. Each fellowship offers visiting scholars an opportunity to conduct research using the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections
Library. Depending on the length of the stay, fellowship recipients are provided up to $5,000.
URL: https://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Harrison_Institute/?page_id=110
Deadline: Applications will be accepted at any time
Valparaiso University -- Lilly Fellows Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships
These two-year residential postdoctoral fellowships are available to teacher-scholars in the arts and humanities who seek to renew and enrich their intellectual and professional lives while preparing for careers at church-related institutions of higher learning. The starting salary is $47,300 plus standard
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benefits, a moving allowance, and an annual professional and travel allowance, and fellows are in residence at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. The Lilly Fellows Program is fully ecumenical.
URL: http://www.lillyfellows.org/PostDoctoralFellowsProgram.aspx
Deadline: January 6
Washington College -- C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
The Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship
This program supports work by academics, independent scholars, and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830. Candidates with a US history topic are strongly encouraged to concentrate on the period prior to 1801. The fellowship is also open to filmmakers, novelists, creative and performing artists, and others working on projects that draw on this period of history. The fellowship supports two months of research and two months of writing. The stipend is $5,000 per month for a total of $20,000, plus housing and university privileges .
URL: http://starrcenter.washcoll.edu/fellows/Hodson-Brown_Fellowship.php
Deadline: March 15
Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship
The Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship includes a $45,000 stipend, health benefits, faculty privileges, a book allowance, and a nine-month residency (during the academic year) in historic Chestertown,
Md. Applicants should have a significant book-length project currently in progress. The project should address the history and/or legacy – broadly defined – of the American Revolution and the nation’s founding ideas.
URL: http://www.washcoll.edu/centers/starr/fellowships/patrick-henry-writing-fellowship/
Deadline: November 1
FUNDING FOR TRANSLATION OF CREATIVE WORKS
National Endowment for the Arts
Through fellowships to published translators, the Arts Endowment supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. Application materials are available online only and applicants are required to use Grants.gov. Grants are for $12,500 or $25,000, depending on the artistic excellence and merit of the project.
URL: http://arts.gov/grants-individuals/translation-projects
Deadline: December 8
SELECTED ONLINE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES LISTS FOR CREATIVE WRITERS
The following entries offer links to online databases and compilations of contests, competitions, and funding opportunities for creative writers.
National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC)
NALAC identifies funds, fellowships, and other resources for Latino/a artists in media, performing arts, visual arts, writing/literary, and other arts. NALAC also supports exemplary cultural exchanges that promote grassroots artistic collaboration and strengthen social networks between the United States,
Mexico and Central America.
URL: http://nalac.org/index.php
Foundation Center, Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
This online database offers information about foundation and public charity programs that fund artists, researchers, and other grant-seekers. There is a free service and more advanced service is available for monthly, three- or six-month, or annual subscription rates.
URL: http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/fundingsources/gtio.html
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Funds for Writers
This website provides information on grants, awards, fellowships, and contests for writers.
URL: http://www.fundsforwriters.com/
National Writers Union
(NWU)
NWU is the trade union for freelance writers of all genres who work for American publishers or employers. The site offers information about how to apply for funding and obtain union documents.
URL: 
http://www.nwu.org/
PIVOT (formerly Community of Science) Funding Opportunities Database
This is the best overall source for funding information available online, and KU faculty and students have free access from any KU computer. Click on the search box and then type in “creative writing” or a related term in the search field. To refine your search further, choose additional qualifications in the requirements, citizenship, activity location, funding type, and sponsor boxes. If you get no results, eliminate some of the qualifications.
URL: http://pivot.cos.com/
Poets and Writers Magazine Grants and Awards Database
This database contains an extensive list of grants and awards, deadlines, and state grants of potential interest to writers and poets. Poets & Writers Magazine announces state and national prizes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Because of space limitations, it lists only prizes of $1,000 or more, prizes of $500 or more that charge no entry fee, and prestigious non-monetary awards.
URL: http://www.pw.org/grants?apage=*&
Scholarships, Fellowships, and Postdoctoral Awards in Media Communications
A compilation of resources by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D. Covers Advertising,
Communications, Filmmaking, Journalism, Marketing, Motion Pictures, Print, Radio, Television, and
Writing.
URL: http://www.fatomei.com/communications.html
WritersDigest.com
Writer's Digest oversees a number of competitions and awards for a variety of genres. Visit the
Competitions page for listings of awards.
URL: http://www.writersdigest.com/writers-digest-competitions
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