Opportunity Information: Apply for 2025NEA03LFCW
The NEA Creative Writing Fellowships program provides $50,000 grants to published writers in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) for FY 2026. These fellowships support time for writing, research, travel, and career development. Applications are judged anonymously, with artistic excellence and merit as the primary criteria. The program alternates yearly between prose and poetry, with poetry fellowships next available in FY 2027. Competition is highly selective, with fewer than 2% of approximately 2,000 applicants receiving awards. Writers can apply only once per year.
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- The National Endowment for the Arts in the arts sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY 2026" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.024.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-16.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-03-12. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2025.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $50,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 35 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Individuals.
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