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"The most comprehensive volume of resources for writers anywhere. This should be right next to the dictionary on your office bookshelf."
—Rick Moody
PEN’s Grants & Awards database is better than ever. With nearly 1,500 listings of domestic and foreign grants, literary awards, fellowships, and residencies*, Grants & Awards is the most comprehensive online database available to writers of all income brackets, at work in all genres, and at various levels of achievement. With a new search engine, finding what you’re looking for is easy. Search by keyword, genre, organization, or deadline. Updated every month, Grants & Awards is assured to offer the most current listings online.
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SAMPLE LISTINGS: FEBRUARY
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Amazon
Deadline: February 5
Web site: www.createspace.com/abna
The Breakthrough Novel Award is offered annually for general fiction and young adult fiction. Each winner receives a publishing deal from Penguin with a $15,000 advance. Amazon Encore will publish close to a dozen other entrants.
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Bucknell University
Deadline: February 11
Web site: www.bucknell.edu
The Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing provides four months of writing time during Bucknell’s fall semester, without formal academic obligations, and a stipend of $4,000 for a young writer with some record of accomplishment.
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Brown University
Deadline: February 15
Web site: www.brown.edu/cw
A fellowship valued at $45,000 (funds for relocation to the United States, living expenses, and an office on the Brown University campus for 12 months) is given annually to an established international writer “who is unable to practice free expression in his or her homeland.”
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Sarabande Books
Deadline: February 15
Web site: www.sarabandebooks.org
The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry awards $2,000 and publication by Sarabande for a full-length volume of poetry (minimum of 48 pages). Winners also receive a standard royalty contract.
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Fourth Genre
Deadline: February 28
Web site: www.msupress.msu.edu
The Michael Steinberg Essay Prize of $1,000 and publication in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction is given annually for an essay of up to 6,000 words of creative nonfiction.
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