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