PEN’s Grants & Awards database is better than ever. With more than 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.

The Vilcek Foundation
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Deadline: July 30

The Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature offers an unrestricted cash prize of $25,000 to a young foreign-born writer who demonstrates outstanding early achievement. … >> Complete Listing
 

Kore Press
Poetry
Deadline: July 31

The Kore Press First Book Award offers a $1,000 prize and book publication ... >> Complete Listing
 

Gival Press, Short Story Award
Fiction
Deadline: August 8

The annual Gival Press Short Story Award offers a $1,000 award for the best unpublished short story...>> Complete Listing
 

Arvon Foundation
Poetry
Deadline: August 16

The Arvon International Poetry Competition offers a first prize of £7,500, one of the largest available for a single poem.... >> Complete Listing
 

Eaton Literary Agency, Book-Length Award
Fiction, Nonfiction
Deadline: August 31

The Literary Awards Program offers a $2,500 prize for a book-length work, open to all unpublished fiction or nonfiction... >> Complete Listing
 

Red Hen Press, Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
Poetry
Deadline: August 31

The Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award offers $3,000 and publication by Red Hen Press for an original, full-length poetry manuscript. ... >> Complete Listing