NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY2020

•The Arts Endowment’s support of a project may begin any time between January 1, 2020, and January 1, 2021 and extend for up to two years. •You may submit only one application for FY 2020 funding. You may not apply for a Literature Fellowship under this deadline and a Translation Project under the December 5, 2018 deadline Grant Program Description The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed through an anonymous process in which the only criteria for review are artistic excellence and artistic merit. To review the applications, the National Endowment for the Arts assembles a different advisory panel every year, each diverse with regard to geography, race and ethnicity, and artistic points of view. .