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Funding for Creative Writing Careers
A guide to getting monetary and other support for creative pursuits, especially writing.
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Contests
Walt Whitman Award
Through the Academy of American Poets
Kindle Scout
Ongoing. No deadline or entry fee.
Sustainable Arts Foundation Awards
Run twice yearly in fall & spring - fee required
Narrative Story Contest
Run 3 times a year in winter, fall, & spring - fee required
Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition
Fee required
Narrative Prize
Annual contest - fee required
American Academy of Arts & Letters
Many require nomination
PEN America Literary Awards
Must already be published and nominated for many of the awards
Writing Workshops & Institutes
American University of Paris - Summer Writing Program
3 week programs
Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing Fellows
University of Wisconsin Madison
Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
Aquinnah, MA
Summer Writers Institute
Washington University, St. Louis
Writing Residencies
Conferences and Residencies Database
Offered through Poets & Writers Magazine.
Cave Canem Residency
A month-long residency in historic Chestertown, MD.
New Dramatists Residency
NY. For playwrights.
Philip Roth Residency in Creative Writing
Lewisburg, PA. For both prose writers and poets.
Writers Omi Residency
Through the International Arts Center - For any writer or translator.
Saltonstall Arts Colony Residency
Ithaca, NY. For poets and fiction writers.
Leadership U(niversity)
Various destinations. Post-university. For playwrights/the theater-minded.
ArtsEdge Residencies
University of Pennsylvania - Post-university. For any writer.
Bard Fiction Prize & Residency
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Previously published requirement.
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