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The Writer’s Center Compass Fellowship

What it is: Our renewed fellowship program will introduce a new writer each year to our writing family, to help guide them along the next steps on their path, with $1000 in credits toward any TWC workshops within a two-year period, a $300 cash stipend, and more.

Who’s it for: Applicants must be local in the DMV area and be able to travel to Bethesda.

The Writer’s Center says: If you’re a writer or an aspiring writer looking for where to go next, The Writer’s Center Compass Fellowship is a great place to start!

National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships

What it is: The National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships offer $25,000 grants in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry to enable creative writers to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.

Who’s it for: To be eligible, you have to be a citizen of the United States, you can’t have received two or more fellowships from the National Endowment from the Arts, you can’t have received the creative writing fellowship on or after January 1, 2014, and you must have published a book within the last seven years.

The Writer’s Center says : This is the nationally recognized fellowship that writers are vying for every year. Note that the genres alternate each year, with prose fellowships offered in odd years, and poetry fellowships in even years.

Mother Jones’s Ben Bagdikian Fellowship

What it is: Mother Jones offers an annual fellowship program that is “a crash course in investigative journalism.” The Ben Bagdikian Fellowship is a full-time position lasting approximately one year, beginning on the first Monday in December and running through late November. Fellows receive a $3,250 monthly stipend.

Who’s it for: Those who are still in school or are only available part-time are not eligible, nor can fellowships be used for course credit. Because the first two weeks of the fellowship consist of intensive group trainings, all applicants, without exception, must be prepared to start on the first Monday in December. Mother Jones is not able to furnish work visas for applicants from outside the United States.

The Writer’s Center says : This is a demanding position that will enable participants to get significant experience in investigative journalism.

Provincetown Fine Arts Center Fellowship

What it is: The Provincetown Fine Arts Center offers 20 seven-month residencies each year to emerging visual artists, fiction writers, and poets, each of whom receive an apartment, a studio (for visual artists), and a monthly stipend of $1,000 plus an exist stipend. Residencies run from October 1 through April 30.

Who’s it for: Visual artists, fiction writers, and poets.

The Writer’s Center says : This is one of the only non-MFA programs that support writers and artists for more than a month at a time.

The Kenyon Review Fellowship

What it is: The Kenyon Review offers a two-year fellowship that comes with a $35,000+ stipend and health benefits that will enable the fellow to undertake a significant writing project; teach one class per semester in the English department of Kenyon College; assist with creative and editorial projects for the Kenyon Review ; and participate in the cultural life of Kenyon College.

Who’s it for: Applicants must possess an MFA or PhD in creative writing, English literature, or comparative literature. They must have experience teaching creative writing and/or literature at the undergraduate level.

The Writer’s Center says : This is a fantastic opportunity for early-career writers to receive time and space to write, as well as teaching experience.

The Loft’s McKnight Artist Fellowship

What it is: The Loft presents five $25,000 awards annually to accomplished Minnesota writers and spoken word artists. Four awards alternate annually between creative prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry/spoken word. The fifth award is presented in children’s literature and alternates annually for writing for ages eight and under and writing for children older than eight.

Who’s it for: Applicants must have been legal residents of Minnesota for the 12 months prior to the application deadline and must currently reside in Minnesota.

The Writer’s Center says : This is a generous grant that will enable Minnesota writers to produce more creative work.

Bucknell Stadler Fellowship

What it is: Bucknell University offers a 10-month fellowship that provides a stipend of at least $33,000 and health insurance. The program offers two distinct tracks: one a fellowship in literary editing and a fellowship in literary arts administration . Applicants can apply to one or the other. Both fellowships are designed to balance the development of professional skills with time to complete a first book of poems. Fellows serve for 20 hours each week during the academic year. The balance of the fellows’ time is reserved for writing.

Who’s it for: Poets who have recently received an MFA or MA in poetry.

The Writer’s Center says : If you are an early career poet and you aren’t interested in teaching, this is a noteworthy opportunity to get significant experience with literary arts administration or literary editing while receiving time and space to work on a poetry collection.

Nieman Fellowships

What it is: Each year, the Nieman Foundation awards paid fellowships of $75,000 to up to 24 journalists working in print, broadcast, digital, and audiovisual media. Those selected for the program spend two full semesters at Harvard auditing classes; they are also able to audit classes at other local universities including MIT and Tufts. The Nieman Foundation also provides some financial support for health insurance and childcare. Fellows are not eligible for health care insurance through Harvard University.

Who’s it for: All applicants for Nieman Fellowships must be working journalists with at least five years of full-time media experience. During the two years prior to applying, an applicant should not have participated in a fellowship lasting four months or longer.

The Writer’s Center says : This is a generous fellowship that enables journalists to deepen their knowledge in an area of interest or several areas of interest.

James Jones Fellowship

What it is: The James Jones First Novel Fellowship, in the amount of $10,000, is awarded annually to an American writer of a novel-in-progress who has not previously published a novel. The Fellowship is co-sponsored by the James Jones Literary Society and the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing of Wilkes University.

Who’s it for: An American writer who has never published a novel. This includes self-published novels.

The Writer’s Center says : This award provides invaluable monetary support for novelists with a work in progress.

The Hodder Fellowship

What it is: The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. An $86,000 stipend is provided for this 10-month appointment as a Visiting Fellow; no formal teaching is involved.

Who’s it for: Composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists. Most successful Fellows have published a book or have similar achievements in their own fields.

The Writer’s Center says : Unlike fellowships that involve teaching or literary administration, this is a generous award for artists solely pursuing independent projects.

PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship

What it is: The Emerging Voices Fellowship provides a virtual five-month immersive mentorship program for early-career writers from communities that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing world. The program is committed to cultivating the careers of Black writers, and serves writers who identify as Indigenous, persons of color, LGBTQ+, immigrants, writers with disabilities, and those living outside of urban centers.

Who’s it for: Underrepresented early-career writers.

The Writer’s Center says : This program lifts up writers who deserve recognition, demystifying the publishing process and introducing them to editors, agents, and publishers.

Persephone Miel Fellowship

What it is: The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting will provide a grant of $5,000 for a reporting project on topics and regions of global importance, with an emphasis on issues that have gone unreported or underreported in the mainstream media.

Who’s it for: The Persephone Miel Fellowships are open to all journalists, writers, photographers, radio producers or filmmakers, staff journalists, as well as freelancers and media professionals outside the U.S. and Western Europe who are seeking to report from their home country but would like to broaden the reach of their reporting by publishing it in international outlets. Applicants must be proficient in English.

The Writer’s Center says : This grant gives a journalist an invaluable opportunity to explore an issue that goes unreported or underreported in mainstream media.

Wallace Stegner Fellowship

What it is: Stanford offers ten two-year fellowships each year, five in fiction and five in poetry. All the fellows in each genre convene weekly in a 3-hour workshop with faculty. Fellowships include a living stipend. Fellows’ tuition and health insurance are paid for by the Creative Writing Program.

Who’s it for: Candidates must live close enough to Stanford to be able to attend workshops, readings, and events.

The Writer’s Center says : This is a non-degree granting opportunity for a writer to get regular feedback from established poets and fiction writers.

Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship

What it is: The Center’s Patrick Henry History Fellowship includes a $45,000 stipend, health benefits, faculty privileges, a book allowance, and a nine-month residency (during the academic year) in a historic 18th-century house in Chestertown, Md.

Who’s it for: Applicants should have a significant project currently in progress — a book, film, oral history archive, podcast series, museum exhibition, or similar work. The project should address the history and/or legacy – broadly defined – of the U.S. founding era and/or the nation’s founding ideas. It might focus directly on early America, or on the myriad ways the questions that preoccupied the nation’s founding generation have shaped America’s later history. Work that contributes to ongoing national conversations about America’s past and present, with the potential to reach a wide public, is particularly sought.

The Writer’s Center says : This fellowship enables applicants to deeply explore a particular historical topic of Washington College’s choosing.

Scripps Fellowship

What it is: This is a non-degree, two-semester program that allows fellows to take environmental journalism classes at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Who’s it for: The fellowship is open to full-time journalists working in any medium who are interested in deepening and broadening their knowledge of environmental issues. It is aimed at outstanding journalists committed to a career in professional journalism. Applicants must have a minimum of five years of full-time professional journalism experience and have completed an undergraduate degree.

The Writer’s Center says : This is a fantastic opportunity for journalists who are interested in environmental issues.

Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship

What it is: The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing offers up to five internationally competitive nine-month fellowships each year. Typically, we award two fiction fellowships (the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellowship and the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship), and two poetry fellowships (the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship and the Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellowship). Additionally, the Institute offers one third-year MFA fellowship — the Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship — to a current student of UW-Madison, through a closed competition. Each of these fellowships carries with it a stipend of at least $39,000 paid in 9 equal installments beginning October 1, generous health benefits, and a one-course-per-semester teaching assignment in undergraduate creative writing.

Who’s it for: Applicants who have published only one full-length collection of creative writing; unpublished applicants are also eligible.

The Writer’s Center says : This fellowship gives a poet and fiction writer time and space to write, as well as teaching experience.

Grub Street’s Emerging Writer Fellowship

What it is: The Emerging Writer Fellowship aims to develop new, exciting voices by providing three writers per year tuition-free access to GrubStreet’s classes and Muse & the Marketplace conferences.

Who’s it for: Anyone over the age of 18 who demonstrates ability and passion for writing is eligible.

The Writer’s Center says : Much like The Writer’s Center Compass Fellowship, GrubStreet’s program enables writers to advance their craft while eliminating the financial barriers to entry.

Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship

What it is: Emory University offers two-year fellowships in fiction, poetry, and playwriting. The teaching load is 2-1, and the fellowship comes with a $45,000 salary and health benefits.

Who’s it for: Anyone who has received an MFA or Ph.D. in the last five years, and who has creative writing teaching experience, a record of publication, and a first book published or underway.

The Writer’s Center says : This is an opportunity for recent graduates of a creative writing program to gain teaching experience as well as space and time to work on their creative projects.

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Submissions are open for the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships. Given in alternating years to prose writers and poets, in 2022 the NEA is accepting applications in poetry. Grantees will receive $25,000 each to “enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.” Writers who are citizens or permanent residents of the U.S., and who have published a poetry collection of at least 48 pages, or 20 or more individual poems or pages of poetry over the last seven years are eligible to apply.

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Using only the online submission system , submit a completed application, which includes a brief project description, seven to ten pages of poetry, and a list of publications, by March 10 . There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines .

Through this fellowship program the NEA “seeks to sustain and nurture a diverse range of creative writers at various stages of their careers and to continue to expand the portfolio of American art.” Applicants can expect to receive a notification on the final status of their applications by December, at the earliest. Fellowship recipients will start to receive financial support for their literary projects between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2024, and may have this support extended for up to two years. Recent creative writing fellows include prose writers Steve Almond, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Melissa Febos, Tope Folarin, Kelli Jo Ford, Shruti Swamy, and Laura van den Berg, and poets Threa Almontaser, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Leila Chatti, Oliver de la Paz, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Valencia Robin. Through this fellowship program the NEA “seeks to sustain and nurture a diverse range of creative writers at various stages of their careers and to continue to expand the portfolio of American art.” Applicants can expect to receive a notification on the final status of their applications by December, at the earliest. Fellowship recipients will start to receive financial support for their literary projects between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2024, and may have this support extended for up to two years. Recent creative writing fellows include prose writers Steve Almond, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Melissa Febos, Tope Folarin, Kelli Jo Ford, Shruti Swamy, and Laura van den Berg, and poets Threa Almontaser, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Leila Chatti, Oliver de la Paz, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Valencia Robin.

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NEA Creative Writing Fellowships Q&A - February 2023

Learn how to apply for the $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in prose before applications are due on March 8. Liz Breazeale , winner of a 2020 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, will answer your questions about applying for the fellowship and provide tips on how to make your application stand out. Side B of this workshop involves crafting a short piece of work based on the material we’ve discussed during the lesson. Students will share their lines with the workshop for a truncated feedback session.

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National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships

The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in  prose  (fiction and creative nonfiction) and  poetry  to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.

This program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years.  In 2023 we will be accepting applications in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) .

Up to two years

Our support for a project may begin any time between January 1, 2024, and January 1, 2025.

Applicants will receive notification of awards and rejections no sooner than December 2023.

Up to $25,000

You are eligible to apply in Prose if you meet the following requirements:

• You are a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
• You have not received two or more Fellowships (in poetry, prose, or translation) from the National Endowment for the Arts. If you have received any award from the National Endowment for the Arts, you must have submitted acceptable Final Reports to the NEA by their due date(s).
• You have not received any National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (in poetry or prose) or Translation Fellowship on or after January 1, 2015 (FY 2015).
• This is your only application to the NEA for FY 2024 individual support. You may not apply for both a Literature Fellowship under this deadline and a Translation Project under the January 12, 2023 deadline.
• At least five (5) different short stories, works of short fiction, excerpts from novels or memoirs, or creative essays (or any combination thereof) in two or more literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or publications that regularly include fiction and/or creative nonfiction as a portion of their content;  or
• A novel or novella;  or
• A volume of short fiction or a collection of short stories;  or
• A volume of creative nonfiction.
• Work must have been published for the first time with an eligible publisher between these dates, not only reprinted or reissued in another format during this period. Eligible publishers have a competitive selection process and offer some service or services to their writers, such as editing and proofreading; formatting and design; and/or promotion, marketing, and distribution. Student-led publications and publications that primarily print work by persons who are affiliated with a particular academic institution are not eligible.
• You may use digital, audio, or online publications to establish eligibility, provided that the publisher has a competitive selection process and offers professional editing. If the online publication or website no longer exists, you must provide, upon request, sufficient evidence that your work once appeared online. If sufficient evidence cannot be provided, the online publication will not be eligible.

If you have questions about your application, contact the Literary Arts staff at 202-682-5034 or email  [email protected] .

creative writing fellowship 2023

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed through an anonymous process in which the criteria for review are the artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted manuscript. Through this program, the NEA seeks to sustain and nurture a diverse range of creative writers at various stages of their careers and to continue to expand the portfolio of American art.

The program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years. For FY 2024, which is covered by these guidelines, fellowships in prose (fiction and nonfiction) are available. Fellowships in poetry will be offered in FY 2025 and guidelines will be available in January 2024. You may apply only once each year.

Competition for fellowships is extremely rigorous. We typically receive more than 1,600 applications each year in this category and award fellowships to fewer than 3% of applicants.

NEA CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIPS: Poetry

The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in  prose  (fiction and creative nonfiction) and  poetry  to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. 

This program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years.  In 2024 we will be accepting applications in poetry.  

Deadline: Mar. 13, 2024

You are eligible to apply in Poetry if you meet the following requirements:

• You are a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
• You have not received two or more NEA Fellowships (in poetry, prose, or translation). If you have received any fellowship award from the National Endowment for the Arts, you must have submitted acceptable final reports to the NEA by the due date(s).
• You have not received any NEA Fellowships (in poetry, prose, or translation) on or after January 1, 2016 (FY 2016).
• You did not apply at the January 18, 2024 deadline for a Translation Projects Fellowship. An individual is only eligible to apply for one literature fellowship (in creative writing or translation) in a calendar year.
• A Volume of 48 or more pages of poetry; or
• Up to 16 pages of poetry may be from a single volume of poetry that is fewer than 48 pages (e.g. a chapbook). This volume may count as only one of the required five places of publication.
• For online publications, a page of poetry is considered to be 20 lines or less.
• Work must have been published for the first time with an eligible publisher between these dates, not just reprinted or reissued in another format during this period. Eligible publishers have a competitive selection process and offer some service or services to their writers, such as editing and proofreading; formatting and design; and/or promotion, marketing, and distribution. Student-led publications and publications that primarily print work by persons who are affiliated with a particular academic institution are not eligible publishers.
• You may use digital, audio, or online publications to establish eligibility, provided they are an eligible publisher as described above. If the online publication or website no longer exists, you must provide, upon request, sufficient evidence that your work once appeared online (e.g., screenshots of the original webpage or correspondence with the publisher confirming publication). If sufficient evidence cannot be provided, the online publication will not be eligible.

Fully Funded MFA Programs in Creative Writing

As part of our series  How to Fully Fund Your Master’s Degree , here is a list of universities that have fully funded MFA programs in creative writing. A Master’s of Fine Arts in creative writing can lead to a career as a professional writer, in academia, and more.

Fully funded MFA programs in Creative Writing offer a financial aid package for full-time students that includes full tuition remission as well as an annual stipend or salary during the entire program, which for Master’s degrees is usually 1-2 years. Funding usually comes with the expectation that students will teach or complete research in their field of study. Not all universities fully fund their Master’s students, which is why researching the financial aid offerings of many different programs, including small and lesser-known schools both in the U.S. and abroad, is essential.

In addition to listing fully funded Master’s and PhD programs, the ProFellow fellowships database also includes external funding opportunities for graduate school, including fellowships for dissertation research, fieldwork, language study, study abroad, summer work experiences, and professional development.

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Here is the list of 53 universities that offer fully-funded MFA programs (Master’s of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing.

University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL): Students admitted to the MFA Program are guaranteed full financial support for up to 4-years. Assistantships include a stipend paid over nine months (currently $14,125), and full payment of up to 15 credit hours of graduate tuition.

University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ): All accepted MFA students receive full funding through a graduate teaching assistantship for 3 years. This package includes tuition remission, health insurance, and a modest stipend (in 2018 it was about $16,100 per academic year).

Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ): 3-year program. All students admitted to the MFA program who submit a complete and approved teaching assistantship application are awarded a TA by the Department of English. Each assistantship carries a three-course per year load and includes a tuition waiver and health insurance in addition to the TA stipend ($18,564 per year). In addition, students have diverse opportunities for additional financial and professional support.

University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR): Four-year program. Teaching assistantships currently carry an annual stipend of $13,500 for students with a BA. TAs also receive a waiver of all tuition costs and teach two courses each semester. Nearly all of our accepted students receive TAs. Additionally, the students compete each year for several fellowships.

Boise State University (Boise, Idaho): 3-year fully funded MFA program dedicated to poetry and fiction. All students receive a tuition waiver, health insurance, and a Teaching Assistantship with a stipend of $11,450 per year.

Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH): 2-year program, graduate assistantships (including stipend and scholarship) are available for all eligible face-to-face students. 100% tuition scholarship. Graduate stipend (the 2020-21 stipend is $11,500).

Brown University (Providence, RI): All incoming MFA students received full funding. All graduate students receive a fellowship that pays a monthly stipend and provides tuition remission, the health fee, and health insurance. The stipend for the 2020-2021 academic year is $29,926. Also, students in good standing receive a summer stipend of $2,993.

Boston University (Boston, MA): Tuition costs will be covered for every admitted student for the MFA degree in the BU Creative Writing Program. In addition, admitted students will receive university health insurance while they are enrolled, and all admitted students will receive stipend support of roughly $16,000 for the academic year.

Cornell University (Ithaca, NY): All MFA degree candidates are guaranteed 2 years of funding (including a stipend, a full-tuition fellowship, and student health insurance).

University of California Irvine (Irvine, CA): 3-year program. The Department is committed to providing 3 full years of financial support to all domestic students in the MFA Programs in Writing. Financial support for MFA students is given in the form of Teaching Assistantships providing full tuition coverage as well as University health insurance. Students will earn an estimated $22,569 for the academic year.

University of California San Diego (La Jolla, CA): MFA in Writing students are eligible for financial support if they study full-time, maintain good academic standing and make timely progress toward the degree. All students are eligible for full funding, including international students provided they meet the English language certification requirement for teaching assistants.

University of California Riverside (Riverside, CA): All incoming students are granted a full fellowship and stipend for their first year. After the first year, students receive full tuition and a salary through teaching assistantships.

Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL): 3-year program. All of the MFA students qualify for a position as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. The GTA position comes with a tuition waiver and a stipend. The standard stipend is $9,000, but some enhanced stipends are available. The Graduate College offers several fellowships for current graduate students.

Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL): The majority of students receive support in the form of a teaching assistantship and are provided with a stipend, a tuition waiver, and a health-insurance subsidy. MFA students receive a three-year assistantship. For 2022-23, MA/MFA stipends will be $16,400, and typically these amounts go up each year. Also, The FSU Graduate School offers several fellowships and awards.

Georgia College & State University (Milledgeville, GA): The MFA Program offers workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and students take cross-genre workshops. All students admitted to the MFA program receive a Graduate Assistantship for all 3 years that includes a stipend and tuition remission.

University of Houston (Houston, TX): MFA students can receive a teaching assistantship for 3 years. Starting salary for MFAs is $17,935/9 months. Students in the Creative. As part of the assistantship, students are awarded either a Graduate Tuition Fellowship, which remits tuition, or a Creative Writing Program Fellowship, which covers the cost of tuition.

University of Idaho (Moscow, Idaho): All English Teaching Assistants (TA’s) are offered full tuition waivers. Teaching Assistants are given a stipend of $14,000 per year. Also offers three scholarships and three outstanding fellowships to support qualified MFA, graduate students.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL): Three-year MFA program. Students accepted into the MFA program will receive full tuition waivers, guaranteed teaching assistantships.

Indiana University (Bloomington, IN): M.F.A. programs offer a generous teaching package to creative writing students. All applicants receive consideration for appropriate fellowships that will carry a stipend of about $19,000, plus tuition and fee-remission that covers roughly 90% of the cost of enrollment.

Iowa State University (Ames, IA): 3-year MFA program. Starting half-time 20 hours per week teaching assistantships for MFA students total $19,250 over 10 months and also receive a full-tuition waiver scholarship (approximate value $10,140) and health insurance coverage. The department has several resources available through which to offer fellowships and scholarships to qualifying new students.

University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA): 2-year residency program. Financial assistance is available for all students enrolled in the program, in the form of teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and fellowships. Most fellowships and assistantships provide either tuition scholarships or full tuition remission.

John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD): 2-year program. All students receive full tuition, health insurance, and a generous teaching fellowship, currently set at $30,500 per year. Some students work as assistant editors on The Hopkins Review. They often win prizes such as Stegner Fellowships or grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

University of Maryland (College Park, MD): This 3-year program accepts 8 applicants who are fully funded by Teaching Assistantships for up to three years of graduate study. Our aid packages include a stipend of about $20,000 per academic year and 60 credit hours of tuition remission.

Miami University (Oxford, OH): All students admitted to the MFA program in Creative Writing hold generous Graduate Assistantships (which include a summer stipend). Non-teaching assistantships may also be available.

University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL): An intensive two-year study with a third year option. The James Michener Fellowships and Teaching Assistantships support all our graduate students. Awards include a full tuition waiver and annual stipend of $18,915.

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI): All MFA students accepted into the program are offered a full tuition waiver, a stipend of $23,000/yearly as well as $5,000 in summer funding, and health care benefits. Additionally, various fellowships and prizes are awarded each year to MFA students.

University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN): All admitted MFAs receive full funding, in the form of teaching assistantships or fellowships. Teaching assistantships carry a full tuition waiver, health benefits, and a stipend of about $18,600. Also, a variety of fellowships are available for graduate students.

University of Mississippi (University, MS): All of our students are fully funded.  We offer two main sources of funding, the Grisham Fellowships and Teaching Assistantships.

University of Nevada Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV): 3-year program. All MFA students admitted to the Creative Writing International program at UNLV are offered Graduate Assistantship funding of $15,000 per year (which includes in-state tuition and provisions for health insurance).

Northwestern University (Evanston, IL): Funding is provided for 3 full years, summers included. Tuition is covered by a tuition scholarship during any quarter in which you are receiving a stipend.

University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN): Every student admitted to the MFA receives a full-tuition scholarship, a fellowship that carries a full stipend of $16,000 per year and access to a 100% health insurance subsidy.

North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC): A two-year, fully-funded program, They accept only about a dozen students each year and offer full funding in the form of a graduate teaching assistantship to all eligible admitted applicants.

Ohio State University (Columbus, OH): All admitted students are fully funded for our 3-year MFA program in Creative Writing. In addition, all students receive either a graduate teaching associateship, a Graduate School fellowship or a combination of the two. For graduate teaching associateships, the student receives a stipend of at least $17,000 for the nine-month academic year.

University of Oregon (Eugene OR): A two-year residency MFA program. All incoming MFA students funded with a teaching appointment. Student instructors receive tuition remission, monthly stipends of approximately $18,000.

Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR): All students admitted to the MFA program will automatically receive a standard teaching Graduate Teaching Assistantship contract, which provides full tuition remission and stipend of approximately $12,800 per year to cover living expenses. In addition to tuition remission, all graduate students have the option to receive 89% coverage of health insurance costs for themselves and their dependents.

University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA): 3-year MFA program. All students admitted to the program will receive Teaching Assistantships for two or three years. All Teaching Assistantships include salary, medical benefits, and tuition remission.

Rutgers University–Newark (Newark, NJ): Each full-time incoming student receives in-state Tuition Remission and a Chancellor’s Stipend of 15K per year. Students are also eligible for Teaching Assistantships, and Part-Time Lectureships teaching Comp or Creative Writing. Teaching Assistantships are $25,969 (approximate) plus health benefits.

University of South Florida (Tampa, FL): 3-year program. MFA students receive a tuition waiver, a teaching assistantship that comes with a stipend, and enrollment in group health insurance.

Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL): Almost all MFA students hold graduate assistantships, which provide stipends for the academic year and full remission of tuition. The annual stipend, which comes with tuition remission, ranges from $13,000 to $14,500.

Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY): Three-Year M.F.A. in Creative Writing. All students are fully funded. Each student admitted receives a full-tuition scholarship in addition to an annual stipend of $17,500.

University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC): 3-year MFA program. The MFA at Carolina is pleased to provide fellowship and/or assistantship funding to all accepted students, earning our program the designation of “fully funded” from Poets and Writers.

University of Tennessee — Knoxville (Knoxville, TN): There is no cost to apply to the MFA program. All of our PhD candidates and MFA students are fully funded, with generous opportunities for additional financial support.

University of Texas in Austin (Austin, TX): All students in the New Writers Project receive three years of full funding through a combination of teaching assistantships (TA), assistant instructorships (AI), and fellowship support. The complete package includes full tuition remission, health insurance, and a salary.

University of Texas James Michener Center (Austin, TX): A three-year, fully funded residency MFA program that provides full and equal funding to every writer. All admitted students receive a fellowship of $29,500 per academic year, plus total coverage of tuition.

Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN): Each year a small, select class of talented writers of fiction and poetry enroll in Vanderbilt’s three-year, fully-funded MFA Program in Creative Writing. The University Fellowship provides full-tuition benefits, health insurance, and a stipend of $30,000/yearly. In 2nd year and third-year students have the opportunity to teach for one semester.

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA): Three-year MFA program. Students will receive fellowship support and/or teaching income in the amount of $20,000 each academic year, as well as full funding of your tuition, enrollment fees, and the health insurance premium for single-person coverage through the university.

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA): Three-year MFA degree offers tracks in Poetry and Fiction, and all students are fully and equally funded via GTA-ships of more than $20,000 per year.

Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO): Because of selectivity and size they are able to offer all the new students full and equal financial aid for both years in the program in the form of a University Fellowship, which provides a complete tuition waiver plus a stipend sufficient for students to live comfortably in our relatively inexpensive city. All MFA students receive health insurance through Washington University.

Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green, KY): Three-year, fully-funded, residential MFA program in creative writing offering generous assistantships, which will allow MFA students to gain valuable experience tutoring and teaching.

West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV): A three-year program. All Master of Fine Arts students receive a full tuition waiver and an assistantship, which includes a stipend valued at $16,750.

Wichita State University (Wichita, Kansas): Most of the MFA students are GTAs who teach two composition classes each semester. They pay no tuition, receive $4,250 each semester and may buy discounted health insurance. The MFA program also awards two $12,500 fellowships each year.

University of Wisconsin–Madison (Madison, WI): All accepted MFA candidates receive tuition remissions, teaching assistantships, generous health insurance, and other financial support. In addition to the approximately $14,680 paid to each MFA annually in exchange for teaching, every MFA candidate will receive another $9,320 in scholarships each year.

University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY): All of our full-time MFA students are fully funded with two-year graduate assistantships. Currently, assistantships include a stipend of $12,330 per academic year, a tuition and fees waiver, and student health insurance. Students also receive summer stipends of up to $2,000 for the summer.

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NEA Creative Writing Fellowships Q&A - February 2023

Learn how to apply for the $25,000   NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in prose before applications are due on March 8.   Liz Breazeale , winner of a 2020 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, will answer your questions about applying for the fellowship and provide tips on how to make your application stand out.  Side B of this workshop involves crafting a short piece of work based on the material we’ve discussed during the lesson. Students will share their lines with the workshop for a truncated feedback session.

Instructor:

Liz Breazeale was awarded a 2020 Creative Writing Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. Originally from Missouri, she holds a BA in Creative Writing from Missouri State University and received her MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University in 2015. She’s served as an editor for numerous literary journals, the Mid-American Review, Blue Monday Review, The Adroit Journal.

Liz is the recipient of the 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize for Fiction for her first short story collection, Extinction Events, which was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2019. Her fiction has been featured in the Best of the Net anthology, nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and selected as runner-up for the Wabash Prize. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Hayden’s Ferry, The Collagist, Fugue, Pleiades, Fence, The Sycamore Review, Passages North, Booth, Territory, and others.

Liz works as a technical editor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She lives in Denver with her cat April Ludgate-Breazeale. Liz is working on her second book, a short story collection of feminist body horror.

Please RSVP/register for this free remote online program to receive the Zoom link.

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The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed through an anonymous process in which the criteria for review are the artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted manuscript. Through this program, the Arts Endowment seeks to sustain and nurture a diverse range of creative writers at various stages of their careers and to continue to expand the portfolio of American art.

The program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years. For FY 2022, which is covered by these guidelines, fellowships in prose (fiction and nonfiction) are available. Fellowships in poetry will be offered in FY 2023 and guidelines will be available in January 2022. You may apply only once each year.

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You are eligible to apply in Prose if you meet the following requirements:

• You are a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
• You have not received two or more Fellowships (in poetry, prose, or translation) from the National Endowment for the Arts. If you have received any award from the National Endowment for the Arts, you must have submitted acceptable Final Reports to the Arts Endowment by their due date(s).
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• This is your only application to the Arts Endowment for FY 2022 individual support. You may not apply for both a Literature Fellowship under this deadline and a Translation Project under the January 13, 2021 deadline.
• At least five (5) different short stories, works of short fiction, excerpts from novels or memoirs, or creative essays (or any combination thereof) in two or more literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or publications that regularly include fiction and/or creative nonfiction as a portion of their content; or
• A novel or novella; or
• A volume of short fiction or a collection of short stories; or
• A volume of creative nonfiction.

To qualify, work must have been published for the first time with an eligible publisher between these dates, not only reprinted or reissued in another format during this period. Publishers are eligible if they have a stated marketing and distribution policy; publish work with competitive selection and a stated editorial policy; and offer professional editing.

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Neustadt Prizes

The Neustadt and NSK Prizes for Literature

2017 Featured Authors and Scholars

The following authors and scholars will be at the 2017 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture. Learn about these writers below and then check the 2017 schedule to see when you can meet them!

NSK Prize winner Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of some twenty books and five chapbooks of poetry for adults and children. While most of her work deals with historical subjects, in 2014 she published a memoir, named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2014, entitled How I Discovered Poetry —a series of fifty poems about growing up in the 1950s in a military family, each poem stamped with a place and date from the many places they lived, including Oklahoma.

In nominating Nelson for the 2017 NSK Prize, poet Hayan Charara wrote: “The language she uses is simple but not simplistic. The ideas and experiences can be complex and weighty, but—as with her other works—Nelson handles them with care and deliberateness, not lessening or lightening the depth of her subjects, but transforming them so that they rise to the occasion.”

Her honors include two NEA creative writing fellowships, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award, an A.C.L.S. Contemplative Practices Fellowship, the Department of the Army’s Commander’s Award for Public Service, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, a fellowship from the J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Frost Medal—the Poetry Society of America’s most prestigious award, for a “distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry.” In 2017 she was awarded the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award, the NSK Prize, and the NCTE Award for Excellence in Children’s Poetry.

Jeanette Davidson is a professor in the African & African American Studies program at the University of Oklahoma and a faculty member in the Anne & Henry Zarrow School of Social Work. The author of African American Studies (2010), Dr. Davidson’s research focuses generally on topics related to race and clinical practice and race and education, and she has published widely in these areas. Davidson is a member of the executive board of the Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, a board member of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, and a board member of the National Council for Black Studies. Davidson serves a number of community organizations in Oklahoma, including Public Strategies and It’s My Community, organizations that work with the most economically challenged African Americans in the state of Oklahoma.

An associate professor of modern dance at the University of Oklahoma, Austin Hartel has led a distinguished career as a dancer and choreographer. Hartel was co-choreographer and a soloist for five years with Pilobolus Dance Theater, making appearances worldwide and on television, twice on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. In 1989 he left Pilobolus to found, with Lisa Dalton, Dalton-Hartel Dance. Hartel has danced with, among others, the José Limón Dance Company, Dances We Dance, the Frank Holder Dance Company, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Peter Pucci Plus Dancers, and Tandy Beal. Hartel’s choreographic commissions include works for Company Teatro Nuovo of Turin, Italy, Akasha Dance Company in Chicago, the National Ballet of Surinam, the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse in New York City, and the New Arts Festival in Fort Myers, Florida. Hartel joined the faculty of the OU School of Dance in 2001.

Karlos K. Hill ( karloskhill.com ) is an associate professor and director of African & African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Hill is also the founding director of the African & African American Studies Distinguished Lecture Series at the university. A frequent commentator on issues of race, equity, and social justice, his weekly podcast, Tapestry: A Conversation About Race and Culture , has a global following. His core research aim is to uncover the various ways in which racial violence has been central to the black experience in America. His books include Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory (2016) and The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Hill has been awarded several prestigious fellowships and grants and is heavily involved in community outreach and engagement.

Roxanne Lyst is an assistant professor of modern dance at the University of Oklahoma. A native of Annapolis, Maryland, she began her professional dance training in Washington DC under the mentorship of Alfred Dove and Adrian Bolton. She continued her studies at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and as a fellowship student at the Ailey School. Lyst has been a member of AILEY II, the Philadelphia Dance Company, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She has toured nationally and internationally performing works choreographed by Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Robert Battle, Twyla Tharp, Ulysses Dove, Lar Lubavitch, Paul Taylor, Ron Brown, Mauro Bigonzetti, Alonzo King, and many more. She has performed independently with Hope Boykin Dance, DANCE IQUAL, and Waheed Works. She received her master of fine arts from Hollins University in 2013.

Alisa Ganieva (b. 1985) grew up in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. Her literary debut, the novella Salaam, Dalgat! , won the prestigious Debut Prize in 2009. Also a journalist and literary critic, her first novel, The Mountain and the Wall (Deep Vellum 2015), was shortlisted for all three of Russia’s major literary awards and has already been translated into several languages. Ganieva currently lives in Moscow. Her second novel, Bride and Groom , shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize, is expected in English translation this year.

Major Jackson  is the author of four collections of poetry, including  Roll Deep  (Norton 2015), which won the 2016 Vermont Book Award and was hailed in the  New York Times Book Review as  “a remixed odyssey.” His other volumes include  Holding Company  (Norton 2010) , Hoops  (Norton 2006), and  Leaving Saturn  (University of Georgia 2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Jackson has published poems, essays, and book reviews in  American Poetry Review ,  Callaloo ,  the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House ,  New York Times Book Review , and in several volumes of  Best American Poetry.  He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, Pew Fellowships in the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among other honors. He is the Richard A. Dennis Green & Gold Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review .

Adnan Mahmutović (b. 1974) is a Bosnian-Swedish novelist and literary scholar. He came to Sweden as a refugee of war in 1993, where he worked for a decade with people with brain damage while studying English and philosophy. He has a PhD in English literature and an MFA in creative writing. He is currently a lecturer and writer-in-residence at the Department of English, Stockholm University. As part of a global project, the Transnational Creatives and GALA Network, he has started and is managing the first MA in Transnational Creative Writing. His works include  Visions of the Future in Comics  (McFarland 2017),  Ways of Being Free  (Rodopi 2010),  Thinner than a Hair  (Cinnamon Press 2010),  How to Fare Well and Stay Fair  (Salt Publishing 2012), and Comics, War, and Ordinary Miracles  (BBC Radio 4).

Dipika Mukherjee is a writer, poet, and sociolinguist. Her second novel, Shambala Junction, won the Virginia Prize for Fiction (Aurora Metro 2016). Her debut novel was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and republished as Ode to Broken Things (Repeater 2016). Her short-story collection is Rules of Desire (Fixi 2015), and edited collections of Southeast Asian fiction include Bitter Root, Sweet Fruit (Word Works 2017, forthcoming), Champion Fellas (Word Works 2016), Silverfish New Writing 6 (Silverfish 2006), and The Merlion and Hibiscus (Penguin 2002). She has two poetry collections: The Third Glass of Wine (Writer’s Workshop 2015) and The Palimpsest of Exile (Rubicon Press 2009). She has taught language and linguistics in the United States, India, China, Netherlands, Malaysia, and Singapore and is now affiliated to the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University. She is equally at home in Chicago, New Delhi, and Kuala Lumpur.

Achy Obejas is the author of the critically acclaimed novels  Ruins ,  Days of Awe , and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology  Havana Noir , and has since translated Junot Díaz, Rita Indiana, Wendy Guerra, and many others. In 2014 she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Director of the MFA in Translation program at Mills College in Oakland, California.

Ladan Osman was born in Somalia. She earned a BA at Otterbein University and an MFA at the University of Texas at Austin as a Michener Center for Writers Fellow. Her chapbook,  Ordinary Heaven , appears in  Seven New Generation African Poets  (Slapering HolPress 2014). Her full-length collection,  The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony  (University of Nebraska Press 2015), is the winner of a Sillerman First Book Prize. A Pushcart nominee, her work has appeared in numerous publications and has been translated into over ten languages. Her writing and photographs have recently appeared in  Baffler ,  Columbia Poetry Review ,  Prairie Schooner ,  Rumpus ,  Transition , and  Washington Square Review .

Born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the US and Saudi Arabia, Sasha Pimentel is a poet and a professor. She is the author of For Want of Water (Beacon Press, forthcoming in October 2017), selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series, and Insides She Swallowed , winner of the 2011 American Book Award. Selected by Philip Levine, Mark Strand, Charles Wright, Joy Williams, and John Guare as a finalist for the 2015 Rome Prize in Literature (American Academy of Arts and Letters), her work has been recently published or is forthcoming in such journals as American Poetry Review , Guernica , New England Review, and Crazyhorse , among others. She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, on the border of Ciudad Juárez, México, to students from all over the Americas in their bilingual (Spanish-English) MFA Program, and is affiliated faculty in the Chican@ Studies Program.

Appointed to a 2017 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University, and to a 2018 Director’s Visitorship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Zia Haider Rahman is an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America, Washington, DC; a Senior Fellow at the Bruno Kreisky Forum, Vienna; and a Visiting Professor in the low residency MFA program in Fiction and Non-Fiction at Southern New Hampshire University. He has held the Michael & Nina Sundell and the James Silberman & Selma Shapiro Fellowships at Yaddo. In the Light of What We Know (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a novel, was published in 2014 to international critical acclaim and won the prestigious James Tait Black Prize, Britain’s oldest literary prize. It won, was shortlisted or longlisted for many other prizes, and has been translated into numerous languages. A former banker, international human rights lawyer, and anticorruption activist, he was born in Bangladesh, grew up in the projects in London, and holds British citizenship. His writing has appeared in the New York Times , the Guardian , and elsewhere.

Mahtem Shiferraw is a poet and visual artist from Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her work has been published in various literary magazines, including Poets.org , Callaloo , The 2River View , Luna Luna Magazine , Diverse Voices Quarterly , Numero Cinq , The Missing Slate , and elsewhere. Her prose appears at The Long Story, Short Literary Journal , the Bitter Oleander Press , and more. Her short story “The River” received an Honorable Mention at Glimmer Train ’s Open Fiction Contest. In 2016 she won the Sillerman Prize for African Poets and her full-length collection, Fuchsia , was published by the University of Nebraska Press. Her poetry chapbook, Behind Walls & Glass , was published by Finishing Line Press. She is the founder of Anaphora Literary Arts, a nonprofit organization working to advance the works of writers and artists of color, co-founder of the Ethiopian Artist Collective, and executive editor of black lioness press. She is a contributing editor for Otis Books Press and curates the digital content for Anaphora . Shiferraw has served as the managing editor of Atlas and Alice literary magazine and the founding editor for The Bleeding Lion: A Journal of Arts and Letters . Her most recent work appears or is forthcoming at Barrow Street Journal, Chaos Hermeneutics Journal, At Length , World Literature Today , and more. Her poems have been included in the anthologies Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles (Tia Chucha Press 2016) and Leimert Park Voices Anthology (Harriet Tubman Imprint 2017). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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Highly recommended free contest from the National Endowment for the Arts awards up to 60 $25,000 grants to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Program alternates annually between poetry and prose (fiction and creative nonfiction); 2023 applications are for prose. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. Limit one application per writer per year. See fine print regarding author eligibility and submission procedures on sponsor's website. Early online submission (no later than 5 days before the deadline) is strongly encouraged.

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Chris Drangle is a writer and teacher from Arkansas. Prior to joining the English Department at University of Idaho, he taught English courses and creative writing workshops as a lecturer at Cornell University and a Jones Lecturer in fiction at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in the Oxford American, the Kenyon Review, Granta, One Story, and many other places.

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Roy Spight demonstrates African American drum making at Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park. An NEA grant to Trustees of Indiana University in Bloomington on behalf of Traditional Arts Indiana will support folk arts programs focused on serving older adults. Photo courtesy of Traditional Arts Indiana

Washington, DC —The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2023, with more than $34 million in funding to support the arts nationwide. This is the first of the NEA’s two major grant announcements each fiscal year and includes grants to organizations through the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects, Challenge America, and Research Awards categories. This announcement also includes grants to individuals for Literature Fellowships in creative writing (poetry) and translation. 

“Together, these grants show the NEA’s support nationwide for strengthening our arts and cultural ecosystems, providing equitable opportunities for arts participation and practice, and contributing to the health of our communities and our economy,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “I encourage everyone to explore these projects and the ways they help provide inspiration, understanding, and opportunities for us to live more artful lives.”

The full list of recommended grants is available in a state-by-state listing and organized by grant category/discipline . Additional information about the projects can be found using the NEA’s Grant Search . 

As part of the application review process, the NEA worked with more than 340 expert reviewers with relevant knowledge and experience who reviewed the applications and rated them in accordance with published review criteria. Recommendations were presented to the National Council on the Arts. The council made its recommendations to the NEA Chair, who made the final decision on all grant awards. Learn more about the grant review process or volunteer to be a panelist .  

See below for more details on each of these funding categories and examples of recommended grants.

Grants for Arts Projects is the agency’s largest grant program. For this round of funding, the NEA received 1,939 eligible applications and will award grants to 1,251 organizations for a total of nearly $28.8 million in funding . Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000 and require a cost share/match of at least one to one. 

This grant program covers a wide variety of projects in 15 artistic disciplines and fields, supporting public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation; the creation of excellent art; learning in the arts at all stages of life; and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life.  Examples include:

A grant to Capacitor Performance in San Francisco, California, of $20,000 to support the development and presentation of a performance piece with an interdisciplinary cohort of electrical engineering and dance students at Washington, DC’s Gallaudet University, the largest Deaf university in the U.S. As part of the project, participants will integrate responsive LED lighting into a sculpture that will be used as part of the performance.

A grant to Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati in Ohio of $15,000 to support the production of a play for young audiences about Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress, written by Brandi Langford-Sherrill and directed by Maddie Burgoon Jones. The play will tour to schools in the greater Cincinnati region and be made available for virtual streaming. Educational materials including study guides and podcasts will be made available to classroom teachers.

A grant to Parallel Studios (aka Currents New Media) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of $25,000 to support the Currents New Media Festival, connecting public audiences with technology-focused media arts experiences such as immersive and interactive art installations, multimedia performances and concerts, virtual and augmented reality experiences, artist talks, and free youth education programming, as well as a paid internship program for high school and college students.

A grant to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, of $35,000 to support Nasher Museum of Art’s exhibition Spirit in the Land that will bring together approximately 70 works by more than 29 contemporary artists exploring issues related to ecological awareness, demonstrating how the natural environment and cultural identity are intertwined. 

A grant to Juneau Arts and Humanities Council in Alaska of $60,000 to support the multidisciplinary Rock Aak'w Festival, a weekend-long, family-friendly, and inclusive festival presented by the council in partnership with the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. The event will showcase and celebrate the shared experiences of performing arts of Indigenous people, including music, dance, and storytelling artists, and will include workshops and masterclasses to instruct teachers on bringing the Indigenous cultures into their classrooms.  

A grant to Nashville Symphony Association in Tennessee of $50,000 to support the symphony’s world premiere orchestral performance of The Jonah People: A Legacy of Struggle and Triumph by Hannibal Lokumbe, conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. In four movements, the orchestra, chorus, vocal soloists, actors, jazz ensemble, and African drum and dance ensemble will consider the legacy of slavery in the United States, and also will celebrate the cultural contributions of Black Americans from the past to the present. Community engagement efforts will feature partnerships with the National Museum of African American Music, Fisk University (a historically Black university), Metro Nashville Public Schools, and Tennessee Performing Arts Center.

A grant to Smart Growth America in Washington, DC of $30,000 to support a national peer network for artists, transportation planners, designers, and engineers through the creation of the Transportation Artists-in-Residence (TAIR) network. They will partner with the Civic Artists in Residence (CAIR) Lab to create and manage the network and to serve as a resource for transportation agencies; further build and organize the growing field of artists-in-residence in government; and spread artist-in-residence programs to additional departments of transportation, transit agencies, and other transportation providers.

A grant to Trustees of Indiana University in Bloomington on behalf of Traditional Arts Indiana of $45,000 to support folk arts programs focused on serving older adults. Folk artists from selected senior communities in Central Indiana will be identified and documented, and encouraged to share their art in public programs. The information collected from the older artists will be used to create a guide for folk arts and aging to inspire others to stay active and engaged with their communities.

A grant to Washington State Arts Alliance Foundation in Seattle of $50,000 to support an emerging statewide arts education collective impact effort. The Arts for All (A4A) Coalition includes partners such as the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Washington State Arts Commission, Creative Advantage, and ArtsEd Washington and seeks to identify and address gaps in access to arts and cultural learning opportunities for students across the state. Project activities will include creating a logic model and strategic plan, launching an A4A website, creating a communications plan, collecting arts education data, convening stakeholders, and providing leadership development opportunities to youth.

The next Grants for Arts Projects application deadlines are Thursday, February 9 and Thursday, July 6, 2023 . Visit arts.gov for guidelines and application resources. A webinar about this grant opportunity will take place on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at 3:00 pm ET. 

At the 2018 Currents New Media Festival, a visitor experiences "Interium,” a video installation and an integrated virtual reality experience. An NEA grant to Parallel Studios (aka Currents New Media) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will support the Currents New Media Festival, connecting public audiences with technology-focused media arts experiences. Photo by David Stout

Challenge America grants are awarded in all artistic disciplines to reach historically underserved communities that have rich and dynamic cultural identities. The NEA received 447 eligible applications and will award grants to 262 organizations for a total of $2,620,000 in funding . Grants are all $10,000 and require a cost share/match of at least one to one. Examples include:

A grant to Florida Children’s Museum in Lakeland, Florida, to support a mobile museum. A collection of hands-on exhibits will be transported and temporarily installed within migrant communities and will provide corresponding arts activities.

A grant to Neighborhoods Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska, to support the development and creation of a piece of public art in Lincoln’s University Place neighborhood, serving low-income communities in this area. As part of this project, local artists will receive training about how to implement art projects in their community and outreach events will give residents the opportunity to provide input.

Challenge America may be a good entry point for organizations that are new to applying for federal funding. The next Challenge America application deadline is Thursday, April 27, 2023 . Visit arts.gov for guidelines and application resources. A webinar about this grant opportunity will take place on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, at 3:00 pm ET. 

The NEA has four priority areas of research: 

• Health and wellness for individuals
• Cognition and learning
• Economic growth and innovation
• In what ways do the arts contribute to the healing and revitalization of communities?
• What is the state of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the arts?
• How is the U.S. arts ecosystem adapting and responding to social, economic, and technological changes and challenges to the sector?

The NEA’s Research Awards cover two funding opportunities for research projects that engage with the NEA’s five-year research agenda and explore these questions.

The NEA will award 20 Research Grants in the Arts for a total of $1.075 million in funding . These grants support a broad range of arts-related studies, many of which strive to understand how factors related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility can improve the efficacy of arts management and cultural policies. 

For example, the NEA will award a grant of $50,000 to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi , a Hispanic-serving institution, to conduct mixed-methods research and create a geographic mapping tool with the ability to inform recommendations about integrating diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility practices with creative economy strategies.

NEA Research Labs support transdisciplinary research teams grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, yielding empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike. The NEA will award grants to four organizations for a total of $525,000 in funding . 

One project examines the arts' role in the healing and revitalization of communities— Northeastern University will be awarded $150,000 to host an NEA Research Lab using participatory action research methods to evaluate whether and how community arts workshops in East Boston, Massachusetts, foster social cohesion and residents' sense of belonging. 

Additional information about the NEA’s research is available at arts.gov/impact/research , including working papers, publications, and presentations that have resulted from NEA Research Grants in the Arts funding, as well as information on all of the NEA Research Labs.

The next Research Awards application deadline is in Monday, March 27, 2023. Guidelines and application resources will be available soon at arts.gov . 

Literature Fellowships

Creative Writing Fellowships are for published creative writers and very competitive, with nearly 1,900 applications received this year. The NEA will award 36 Creative Writing Fellowships of $25,000 each for a total of $900,000 . These FY 2023 fellowships are in poetry and enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career development. You can read more about this diverse group of poets in the Creative Writing Fellowships section of arts.gov.

Translation Fellowships support the translation of literary prose, poetry, and drama from writers around the world into English, broadening access to these writers and their stories. The NEA will award grants to 22 translators, ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 for a total of $300,000 to translate works from 10 languages and 16 countries. You can read more about these translators and their projects in the Translation Fellowships section of arts.gov.

The next deadline for Creative Writing Fellowships is Wednesday, March 8, 2023 . In 2023, the NEA is accepting applications in prose. The next deadline for Translation Fellowships is Thursday, January 12, 2023 .

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