NEA Literature Fellowships: Poetry

NEA Creative Writing Fellowships in poetry are available to published creative writers. Fellowships enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Awards are for $25,000. Competition for fellowships is extremely rigorous. Potential applicants should consider carefully whether their work will be competitive at the national level.

They Do Not Fund
•Individuals who previously have received two or more Creative Writing or Translation Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
•Individuals who have received any Creative Writing or Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts within the past ten years.
•News reporting.
•Scholarly writing. (Writers who are engaged in scholarly work may wish to contact the National Endowment for the Humanities.)
•Work toward academic degrees.

Individuals must submit their applications electronically through Grants.gov, the federal government’s online application system. The Grants.gov Contact Center is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.