Research Guides: Grant &amp; Funding Opportunities: For Creative Writing

Roundups and Calendars

Writing Funding Calendar for Grants, Fellowships & Residencies
Funding calendar for writers from Julia Phillips, Fulbright fellow and best-selling author.
WomenArts
A list of more than ten literary grants available for women artists.

National Endowment for the Arts: Creative Writing Fellowships
Creative writing fellowships operating on a two year cycle.
National Endowment for the Arts: Grants for Literary Arts
Supports projects in two areas: Literary Publishing and Public Engagement/Professional Development.

PEN American U.S. Writers Aid Initiative
For fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and other writers facing acute financial need following an emergency
Hurston/Wright Foundation College Awards
Offered annually for Black college writers who are college students.
Speculative Literaure Foundation Grants
Find information about multiple grant opportunities, including: Diverse World, Diverse Writers, Working Class Writers, and the A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian or Desi diaspora speculative fiction writers
Bard Fiction Prize
Annual fiction prize and fellowship for American writers age 39 and under at the time of application

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
Awards five fellowships annually to U.S. poets between 21 and 31 years of age.

The Walter Dean Myers Grant
From We Need Diverse Books. The 2015 winner was Angie Thomas, who used the grant to complete The Hate You Give.
We Need Diverse Books Mentorships
Mentors work one-on-one with a mentee and their completed draft of a manuscript over the course of a year.
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grand for Children's and Young Adult Novelists
"Offered annually to an author of children’s or young adult fiction for a novel-in-progress."
Society of Chidlren's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Grants
Provides grants to emerging writers in children's literature. Includes grants specifically for BIPOC and Hispanic/Latinx authors