As part of our mission, the Center for the Literary Arts curates and maintains a database of Creative Practice Fellowships, Grants, & Residencies relevant to the WashU and larger literary arts and creative practice community.
Every academic year, the CLA also hosts a series of informal info sessions on selected external and internal Creative Practice Fellowship opportunities to support the work of our creative practice and literary arts community.
For more details and updates on these sessions, please sign up for our emails and CLA Newsletter here.
If you have feedback or questions regarding these opportunities and programs, please contact us at literaryarts@wustl.edu.
Internal
Teaching Innovation Awards for Teaching and Practice Track Faculty
DEADLINE: February 14
WashU Creative Practice Workshop
DEADLINE: March 17
External
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS:
PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship
DEADLINE: January 31
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund: Money for Women
DEADLINE: January 31
Nonfiction, Poetry
The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships
DEADLINE: February 1
Fiction, Poetry
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences
DEADLINE: February 1
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation
Just Buffalo Literary Arts Center Poetry Fellowship
DEADLINE: February 28
Poetry
Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship
DEADLINE: March 1
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation, Film, Visual Art, Sound Art, Music Composition
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship
DEADLINE: March 3
Poetry
NEA Creative Writing Fellowships
DEADLINE: March 12
Fiction, Nonfiction
James Jones First Novel Fellowship
DEADLINE: March 15
Fiction
A Public Space Writing Fellowship
DEADLINE: March 31
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid Writing
Carson McCullers Center Fellowship for Writers
DEADLINE: April 1
Creative Writing
Creative Capital Awards
DEADLINE: will be announced in late January
The American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship
DEADLINE: application opens February 1
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Screenwriting, Playwriting, Film, Visual Art
Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence Fellowship
DEADLINE: will be announced in early 2025
Children’s/Young Adult Literature
Fiction Meets Science Fellowship
DEADLINE: rolling
Fiction
RESIDENCIES:
Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing
DEADLINE: February 1
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid Writing, Graphic Fiction
MacDowell
DEADLINE: February 10
Creative Writing, Theater, Film, Visual Art, Architecture, Music Composition, Interdisciplinary Art
Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residency
DEADLINE: February 24
Creative Writing, Visual Art, Performance Art, New Media, Music Composition, Interdisciplinary Art
Ox-Bow Summer Residency
DEADLINE: February 16
Creative Writing, Visual Art
Millay Arts Residency
DEADLINE: March 1
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Filmmaking, Visual Art, Music Composition
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency
DEADLINE: March 1
Creative Writing, Visual Art, Music Composition, Interdisciplinary Art
Voices of the Wilderness Artist in Residency Program
DEADLINE: March 2
Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Film, Visual Art, Musical Arts
Visual Arts Center of Richmond Artist and Writer Residency
DEADLINE: March 31
Creative Writing, Visual Art
BAU Institute/Camargo Foundation Residency
DEADLINE: March 15
Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Film, Visual Art
Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency
DEADLINE: May 19
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
The Studios of Key West Peyton Evans Artist Residency Program
DEADLINE: application opens in January
Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Visual Art, Media Arts, Musical Arts
The Mastheads
DEADLINE: application opens in January
Creative Writing, Translation