Poetry Residencies

The 4th Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL)
Deadline January 19

Alden B. Dow Creativity Center Fellowship
Deadline December 31

American Antiquarian Society for pre-20th century historical research
Deadline October 5

American-Scandinavian Foundation for research and study in Scandinavia
Deadline November 1

Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship
Must be received by October 15

Arizona Commission on the Arts in state awards
Deadline September 18

Arrowhead Regional Arts Council career development grants for Minnesotan writers living in Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, or St. Louis
Deadline November 28.

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, annual conference
Conference roves around from town to town.

Axton Fellowships at the University of Louisville (for peeps with Ph.D.s)
Deadline November 1

Bread Loaf, Middlebury College
Must be postmarked March 1 for financial aid

Converse College Julia Peterkin Award (alternates yearly between poetry and fiction)
Deadline February 15

Delaware writers Established and Emerging Professional Fellowships
Deadline August 1

Desert Writers Award, Ellen Meloy Fund
Deadline December 31

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Deadline February 15

Espy Foundation
Deadline November 1 for Spring; March 1 for Summer, July 1 for Fall

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Summer workshops
Deadline April 18

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Winter Fellowship
Deadline December 1

Fishtrap Summer Fellowships
Deadline February 1

The John Simon Guggenheim Awards
September 15

Princeton’s The Hodder Fellowships
Deadline November 1

Illinois Artist Fellowships
Deadline September 1

Japan-US Friendship Commission US/Japan Creative Artists Residency
Deadline February 1

Leeway Foundation for Philadelphia women and transgender people
Deadline September 8

Madrid Summer Seminar Prizes, University of New Orleans
Deadline January 31

Maine Community Foundation Martin Dibner Fellowships for Maine poets
Deadline January 15

Marin Arts Council Career Grants
Deadline February 15

Marin Arts Council New Work Fellowships
Deadline January 31

Maryland State Arts Council
Deadline July 31

The Milton Center Postgraduate Fellowships
Deadline March 15

Mississippi Arts Commission literary arts fellowships (must be over 18 and NOT a full-time student)
Deadline March 1

Napa Valley Writers Conference
Must be received by May 24 (I went to this on scholarship twice: a good warm-up)

Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships
Deadline Nov. 15

New York Foundation for the Arts artist fellowships
Deadline October 6

North Carolina Arts Council writers’ fellowships
Deadline November 3

Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards
Deadline September 1

Olivet College Sandburg-Auden-Stein Residency
Deadline September 10

Palm Beach Poetry Festival
Deadline October 31

Farmingdale State University’s Paumanok Poetry Award
Deadline September 15

PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellowships
Deadline September 5

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships
Deadline August 4

Harvard University Radcliffe Institute Fellowships
Deadline October 1

Robert Frost Foundation
Deadline September 15

A Room of Her Own Foundation (alternates poetry and fiction bienially)
Deadline October 31

Squaw Valley Writers
May 10 (I went to this on scholarship one year: totally amazing and highly recommended!)

Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
Submit September 1 – December 1

Thornton Writer Residency, Lynchburg College (fall term for fiction, spring for poetry)
Deadline March 15 – Call for guidelines: Patty Irwin, 434.544.8267

University of Mississippi Summer poetry residency
Deadline February 1

University of New Orleans writing contest for study abroad
Deadline January 31

Washington State artist grants
Deadline February 23

Wave Books Poetry Farm
Deadline every fall/winter for the following year.

Western Michigan University Prague Summer Program Fellowships
Deadline February 1

Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Submit during February

Wisconsin Arts Board artist fellowship awards for in-state writers
September 15

Writers @ Work
Submit January 1 – March 1

Wyoming Arts Council Blanchan/Doubelday Memorial Awards
Deadline August 29