✍️ 100+ Grants, Residencies & Contests That Are Actually Worth It | November 19th, 2025
A prestigious university fellowship is offering $58,800 to complete a first book of poetry or nonfiction, and prizes of $3,000 and $5,000 are available for emerging writers of literary fiction.
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A prestigious university is offering a one-year creative writing fellowship for authors who have recently completed a graduate degree to complete their first book of poetry or nonfiction, paying $58,800.
An independent press is seeking book-length submissions of original literary fiction that is evocative and genre-bending for a prize that includes $3,000 and publication.
A major literary nonprofit is accepting applications for a fellowship designed for emerging Asian American, Muslim, and Arab writers of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction, offering $5,000.
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