Writers and Editors

Plus writing contests and other sources of funding (or unpaid publication) for writers

• Links to awards, grants, fellowships, competitions
• Getting funded: grant proposal writing and fundraising (tips, guides, books, workshops)

If a link doesn't work, let me know. URLs change so often it's impossible to keep up! Google the terms given here and you're likely to find the site (unless an award is no longer given).

AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards for outstanding reporting for a general audience, honoring individuals (rather than institutions, publishers or employers) for their coverage of the sciences, engineering and mathematics. Each category winner receives $3,000. Categories for U.S. submissions: U.S. submissions in the following categories: Large Newspaper, Small Newspaper, Magazine, Television:Spot News/​Feature Reporting, Television:In-depth Reporting, Radio, and Online. international category for Children's Science News is open to journalists worldwide across all news media. International category for Children's Science News is open to journalists worldwide across all news media. (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) Awards, with an emphasis on academic history.

AAAS Science Dance contest (best performance of a dissertation choreographed and set to music), link to 4 You-Tube videos of winners who best bridged art and science, dancing their PhD thesis

ADDYs (American Advertising Federation, AAF, "honoring advertising's best and brightest")

AHCJ Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism (awards by journalists for journalists)

AHCJ/​​CDC Health Journalism Fellowships for journalistic training sessions on epidemiology, global disease prevention efforts, pandemic flu preparedness, climate change, vaccine safety, obesity, autism and more).

ALA Awards (from the American Library Association) greatly influence library, school, and family purchases. They include:
• Margaret A. Edwards Award
• William C. Morris YA Debut Award
• Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
• Schneider Family Book Award (to honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences)
• The Odyssey Awards (best audio book for children and/​or young adults, in English, in U.S.)
• YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults (Young Adult Library Services Association award)
• Coretta Scott King Book Awards (to honor African American authors and illustrators who create outstanding books for children and young adults)
• Alex Awards (for ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18)
• Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

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Alicia Patterson Fellowships. Look under Patterson.

American Academy of Arts and Letters awards, including Arts and Letters Awards in Literature, conveying both $7500 and honor to five artists, eight writers, four composers, and three architects (with composers receiving an additional $7500 toward the recording of a work). See additional prestigious awards here.

American Copy Editors Society (ACES) awards
• Headline contest ($2,250 in cash prizes for outstanding headline writing)
• Robinson Prize ($3,000 each year to a person whose exemplary work upholds the craft, focused on excellence over the whole range of skills and contributions in editing)
• Glamann Award (recognizing people and organizations that have contributed the society and the craft)

American History Book Prize (prize and $50,000 are awarded by the New York Historical Society for an adult nonfiction book on American history or biography distinguished by its scholarship, literary style, and appeal to a general as well as an academic audience)

Academy of American Poets. Numerous awards for poetry in the United States, ranging in value from $1,000 to $100,000.

American Academy of Religion Awards
• AAR Best First Book in the History of Religions Award
• Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion (Constructive-Reflective; Historical; Analytical-Descriptive; Textual)
• Award for Best In-Depth Newswriting on Religion
• Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Religion Award
• Religion and the Arts Award.

American Horticultural Society awards for Excellence in Children's Literature (outstanding children’s gardening and nature books), and the AHS Gardening Book Award (the award for adult gardening books)

American Literary Awards (a list on Wikipedia)

American Political Science Association (APSA) Book Awards:
• Ralph J. Bunche Award best scholarly work in political science which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism ($1,000)
• Gladys M. Kammerer (best political science publication in the field of U.S. national policy, $1,000)
• Victoria Schuck Award (best book on women and politics, $1,000)
• Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award (best book on government, politics, or international affairs, $5,000, supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation)

Amnesty International Media Awards (celebrating the best in human rights journalism)

Amy Foundation Writing Awards (writing in secular markets, using at least one biblical passage; first prize, $10,000)

Annenberg/​California Health Journalism Fellowships

Apex Awards for Publication Excellence. The 2010 awards from this 22-year-old awards program for writers, editors, publications staff, and business and nonprofit communicators drew 3,700 entries (at $99 per entry) in 130 communications categories. It presented 1132 Awards of Excellence in 127 categories and 100 Grand Awards in the 11 main categories: newsletters; magazines and journals; magapapers and newspapers; annual reports; brochures, manuals and reports; electronic media and video; Web and intranet sites; campaigns, programs and plans; writing; design and illustration; and special publications.Sponsored by Communications Concepts, publishers of Writing That Works: The Business Communications Concept. One winner was a booklet about the National Library Service for the Blind's Talking Books Program.

Arthur F. Burns Fellowship (an exchange program of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ): each year 20 outstanding media professionals from the United States and Germany are funded to report from and travel in each other's countries)

Artists' Fellowships (New York Foundation for the Arts). $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York, with awards granted in 15 disciplines)

Artist Trust (supporting Washington State artists working in all creative disciplines

ASNE awards for excellence in journalism (American Society of News Editors, awards in nine categories, including the Jesse Laventhol Prize for Deadline News Reportingm $1,000 to $10,000). See FAQ about ASNE awards.

Association of Writers & Writing Programs, AWP Award Series. Two annual prizes of $5,000 each and publication by a participating press for a poetry collection and a short story collection, and two of $2,000 for a novel and a book of creative nonfiction

The Authors League Fund. The Fund gives open-ended, interest-free, no-strings-attached loans to professional writers and dramatists who find themselves in financial need because of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income or other misfortune.

Awards and contests, lists of:
• AJR list of awards, grants, fellowships, and scholarships for journalists (American Journalism Review)
• American Literary Awards (a list on Wikipedia)
• Award submissions calendar (Poets & Writers handy calendar helps you schedule submissions for writing contests, grants, and other literary awards)
• Award Annals (ranks creative works honored by more than 180 book awards, film awards, and music awards). Here is information about the 69 award organizations represented on Award Annals.
• Between the Covers guide to literary awards and book lists (a rare-book store's excellent reference section)
• Big Fat Prize (information about contests, competitions, awards, prizes in many categories)
• E&P Journalism Awards and Fellowship Directory (free PDF download, 2010). This comprehensive list, from Editor & Publisher, of more than 500 awards, grants, scholarships and contests - national and international - available to journalists and other newspaper professionals. With a subject index to make locating specific awards easier.
• Funds for Writers (C. Hope Clark's website and newsletter)
• New Pages Writing Contests (poetry, fiction, flash fiction, essays, photography, etc. -- only for publications listed by NewPages, for literary and alternative magazines and publishers and university presses)
• NewsLab Links to Journalism Awards
• Grants & Awards. The PEN guide, formerly a book, is now an online database to which you can subscribe ($10 for members, $12 for non-members)
• Poets & Writers database of writing contests, grants & awards
• Radio/​Media Awards Directory (AIR wiki, Association of Independents in Radio)
• Various awards from American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Wikipedia links to nonfiction literary awards
• Wikipedia links to literary awards by genre and type
• WritersNet guide to writing contests and awards
• Getting Funded (Writers & Editors links to grant-funding resources)

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Bad Sex in Fiction Award (Literary Review). And here are some long-past winners, with prize-winning sentences

The Bancroft Prize, awarded by Columbia University, for authors of distinguished work in American History (including biography) and Diplomacy.

Banipal Trust for Arab Literature A prize of £3,000 awarded annually for a book of poetry or fiction translated from Arabic into English, published for the first time in English during the previous year.

Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards

Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism (Reynolds Center for Business Journalism)x

Barry Awards for Best Crime Fiction (given by Deadly Pleasures Magazine and Mystery News)

The BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, the UK's most prestigious nonfiction award (worth £20,000 to the winning author), for the best nonfiction published in the UK, from biography, travel and popular science to the arts and current affairs. "All the best stories are true." (Administered by Colman Getty Consultancy). See piece by the Guardian's Alison Flood, Biography dominates Samuel Johson prize longlist. ("A wide range of life stories loom large among the 18 finalists for the £20,000 prize.")

Bellwether Prize for Fiction ($25,000 plus publication, for "a literature of social change")

The Best of Photojournalism (NPPA, the contest designed by photojournalists for photojournalists)

Robert W. Bingham Prize (PEN) awards a cash stipend of $25,000 to exceptionally talented fiction writers whose debut work -- a first novel or collection of short stories published in the award year -- represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.

Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism ($20,000, and check out the other Nieman Foundation awards on that page)

Biography and Biographers, awards for:
See fuller description of award under its own name in master list.
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships (midcareer awards)
• Leon Levy Biography Fellowships ($60,000 stipend)
• Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography (£5,000)
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography
• Mayborn Conference Young Spurs Biography Contest
• National Jewish Book Award in Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir (a Krauss Family Award in memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg
• PEN/​Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($5,000)
Biographies are also eligible for an American History Book Prize, a Bancroft Prize, a Hillman Prize, a National Book Award, or a Pulitzer Prize, among others. The Biographer's Craft will keep you up to date on when applications are due and any special news about a particular year's award.

Biographers' Club (UK) prizes: The Tony Lothian Biographers' Club Prize (one prize for first-time biographers and one for services to biography).

Biography, BIO's list of awards for (list posted by Biographers International Organization, for members only)

Black Caucus Literature Awards (Black Caucus of the American Library Association awards for fiction, first novel, nonfiction by African American author and Outstanding Contribution to Publishing for unique book positively depicting African Americans)

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry (a privately funded $10,000 poetry award given under the auspices of the Library of Congress--the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry)

Bollingen Prize for Poetry at Yale ($100,000), a prestigious literary honor bestowed every two years on an American poet, in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.

Boston Authors Club. Annual prizes of $1,000 each for two books (one for young readers) written by a Boston-area author. Poetry, fiction, or nonfiction (including creative nonfiction).

Michael Braude Award for Light Verse, a $5000 biennial award for light verse written in English regardless of the writer's country of origin (one of many awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters).

British Fantasy Awards

Brit Writers' Awards. Jane Smith of How Publishing Really Works writes about suspect aspects of these awards--a marketing gimmick for a self-publishing arm?

Brown Foundation. The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation awards yearly grants ($1,000) awards yearly grants for full-length plays, screenplays, musicals or operas that present the gay and lesbian lifestyle in a positive manner and that are based on, or inspired by, a historic person, culture, event, or work of art.

The Caine Prize for African Writing (£10,000 and prestige). There's controversy about whether there is such a thing as African writing, which Ellah Allfrey discussed in this Guardian story in 2010: The winning qualities of the Caine Prize.

Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism honor distinguished coverage of disadvantaged children, youth and families. Read these First Person narratives by honorees about how they covered their winning stories, with tips for fellow reporters.

Casey Journalism Center Fellowships and Training (journalists get access to top experts and the latest information in the children, youth and family field)

Center for Plain Language ClearMark and WonderMark awards recognize the best and worst use of plain language each year in both the private and public sectors. The ClearMark awards celebrate documents and web sites that succeed in communicating clearly. The WonderMark awards "are your chance to tell the world what’s not plain. Forms, signage, websites. Disclaimers, instructions, legal documents."

Children's Book Awards (English-language awards worldwide, on the Children's Literature Web Guide)
• Awards and Prizes Online (Children's Book Council, $150 subscription provides up-to-date info for a year)
• Children's Choices Reading Lists (sponsored by International Reading Association and Children's Book Council)
• Awards in Youth Literature (The Center for Children's Books)
• Book Awards (The Global Fund for Children)
• Children's Book Awards, International (David K. Brown, Children's Literature Web Guide, 1997, somewhat out of date but possibly helpful)

Children's Book Council of Australia Awards

Christopher Awards (established by Christopher founder Father James Keller to salute media that “affirm the highest values of the human spirit" -- that "encourage audiences to see the better side of human nature and motivate artists and the general public to use their best instincts on behalf of others." Answers to FAQs.

The Christy Awards (honoring excellence in Christian fiction)

Cicero Speechwriting Awards (Vital Speeches of the Day, for speeches submitted in English)

ClearMark and WonderMark awards (Center for Plain Language, recognizing the best and worst in plain language each year in government, nonprofit, and private companies)

Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting (Council for the Advancement of Science, $3,000 and a framed certificate)

Commonwealth Writers Fiction Prize (unearths, develops and promotes the best new fiction from across the British Commonwealth--writers from Nigeria, Canada, India, Pakistan, the UK,m and other parts of the Commonwealth). Regional winners of the Commonwealth Book Prize receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £10,000. Regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize receive £1,000 and the overall winner receives £5,000.

Communication Arts competitions (for advertising, design, illustration, interactive media photography)

Contest and award fakes (Writer Beware on fake contests, the most common of which are conducted by vanity anthology companies)

Cookbook awards:
• IACP Cookbook Awards. The International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Awards celebrate the year's most outstanding food and beverage publications
• James Beard Cookbook of the Year Award. Here are past winners (as posted on Powell's Books)

Creative Writing Contests (which may mean short stories, essays, memoirs, poems, novels, plays, etc.). Many, many contests, large and small, can be found on these lists:
• Poets & Writers' excellent list
• Manuscript Editing's list
• Freelance Writing's list
• Pearl Luke's list
• Oliver Abrahim Kahn's site
• Writer's Digest competitions

Croly Award for Excellence in Journalism Covering Issues of Concern to Women ($1000 given by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs to journalists who best capture the courage, vision, and spirit of Jane Cunningham Croly)

Cullman Center Fellowships. Up to 15 fellowships a year are awarded to outstanding scholars and writers – academics, independent scholars, journalists, and creative writers - whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellows received a stipend of up to $65,000, an office, a computer, and full access to the Library's physical and electronic resources.

Dagger Awards (Crime Writers Association, UK)

The Dylan Thomas Prize for young writers. The £30,000 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize is awarded to the best published or produced literary work in the English language, written by an author under 30.

Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes. These new literary awards "will be given annually starting in late 2012 or early 2013, with seven to nine grants of $150,000 each awarded to playwrights and writers of fiction and nonfiction. Awards for poetry may be added later at the discretion of the awards committee." Source: Yale Announcing $150,000 Literary Prizes (Charles McGrath, NY Times 6-17-11).

ECPA Christian Book Awards (awards in seven categories from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association)

Edgar Awards (Mystery Writers of America)

Edelstein Prize cash award and a plaque to the author of an outstanding scholarly book in the history of technology (formerly the Dexter prize). One of several awards presented by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

**E&P Journalism Awards and Fellowship Directory (free PDF download, 2010). This comprehensive list, from Editor & Publisher, of more than 500 awards, grants, scholarships and contests - national and international - available to journalists and other newspaper professionals. With a subject index to make locating specific awards easier.

Emergency Funds and Other Resources for Needy Writers (ASJA's fine guide to National Emergency Funds, Regional Emergency Funds, Crisis Advice and Advocacy)

Emergency Shelter and Food Provisions (PEN America's list of national and regional resources)

EPPY awards (Editor & Publisher and Media Week awards for best media-affiliated websites, across 43 categories, awarded to newspapers, television, magazine and radio companies)

Eric Hoffer Awards for (unpublished) short prose and books (covered here) include the
• Montaigne Medal (to the most thought-provoking book(s), which either illuminate, progress, or redirect thought)
• da Vinci Eye for the title(s) with the best cover art (judged on both content and style -- here are some winners

Espy Foundation Residencies for Poets and Writers (one-month residencies in March, June, and October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Oysterville, Washington)

Evert Clark/​Seth Payne Award for science journalists under 30 ($1000).

Excellence in Financial Journalism Competition (New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants recognize reporters from national and local media who contribute to a better understanding of business topics)

Fellowships and Grants, directories and linked lists to:
• E&P Journalism Awards and Fellowship Directory (free PDF download, 2010). This comprehensive list, from Editor & Publisher, of more than 500 awards, grants, scholarships and contests - national and international - available to journalists and other newspaper professionals. With a subject index to make locating specific awards easier.
• Funds for Writers
• Newslab links to journalism fellowships
• Radio/​Media Fellowships and Grants Directory (AIR wiki, Association of Independents in Radio)
• Getting Funded (section on grants funding, Writers & Editors site)

Fly-fishing awards. There seem to be several, but in particular we note the Robert Travers Fly-Fishing Writing Award. There is also at least one award for fly fishing video (Drake Magazine).

"First Book" Contests (Poets & Writers' list of "debut book" contests for 2010).

Furthermore grants in publishing. Grants from $500 to roughly $15,000 for nonfiction publishing book publishing about the city; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties and other public issues of the day. "In geographical reach we are drawn— but in no way limited— to New York City and to New York State and its Hudson Valley." Grants apply to writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and printing and binding. Individual writers may not apply; applicants must be 501(c)3 organizations.

George Washington Book Prize ($50,000 in 2011), for the most important new book about America's founding era. Co-sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens.

Georgia Author of the Year Award, presented by the Georgia Writers Association (presenting its 47th awards in 2011).

Gerald R. Ford Foundation Journalism Prizes for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency and National Defense, two annual prizes in print journalism ($5,000 each) presented at the National Press Club.

German/​American Journalists Exchange Program, for broadcast or online journalists (sponsored by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA)

Gilder Lehrman Institute of History (short-term fellowships for post-doc research in New York City)

Gilder Lehrman National Book Prizes. The Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and George Washington Book Prizes for outstanding books in American History are among the most prestigious awards for history writing in the United States:
• The Lincoln Book Prize ($50,000, awarded annually, in partnership with Gettysburg College) for the best book (the finest scholarly work in English) on Lincoln or the Civil War era. When submissions carry similar merit, preference is shown for work on Abraham Lincoln or the common soldier, or work that reaches a broad literate public.
• The Frederick Douglass Book Prize ($25,000 awarded annually, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University) for an outstanding book about slavery or abolition.
• The George Washington Book Prize ($50,000 awarded annually, in partnership with Washington College and Mount Vernon) for outstanding published works that contribute to a greater understanding of the life and career of George Washington and/​or the founding era.

Giller Prize. Scotiabank's Giller Prize is Canada's largest literary prize: $50,000 to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English and $5,000 to each of the four other finalists.

Glamour's "My Real-Life Story Essay Contest" ($5,000 plus publication in Glamour)

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"Everyone has a notion of what sells but nobody knows. Publishing is a guessing game. It begins with writers and agents trying to second-guess the zeitgeist, continues with publishers and editors trying to second-guess book chains, book clubs, book readers and book critics, and ends with literary juries trying to second-guess posterity. 'If we all tossed a coin, we’d get it right half the time. Since we rely on our judgment, we get it right less often.' I’m quoting Michael Korda from memory." ~ George Jonas, writing about Canada's Giller Prize, in Picking the next great novel is a guessing game (National Post, 11-13-10)

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Glimmer Train Press holds contests for fiction, in these categories: Fiction Open, Family Matters, Very Short Fiction Award, Short Story award for new writers. Check the list of 25 winners and finalists for all Glimmer Train contests.

Golden Crown Literary Society ("Goldie") awards for the best lesbian literature

Guggenheim Fellowships. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards up to 220 fellowships a year to "men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” These American fellowship grants are awarded through two annual competitions, one for U.S. and Canadian citizens and permanent residents (deadline September 15) and one for citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean (deadline December 1). The performing arts are excluded, but composers, film directors, and choreographers are eligible. Applicants: Learn more here. The average amount for grants in 2008,says Wikipedia, was about $43,200. Wikipedia lists Guggenheim fellows by year.

The Haven Foundation: Supporting Freelance Artists in Need. Stephen King’s foundation provides aid (in amounts up to $25,000) to writers and artists who, through tragic events and no fault of their own, are unable to work.

Hemingway Foundation PEN Award for a first work of fiction by an American author, now administered by PEN/​New England.

Hillman Prizes in Journalism, prestigious journalism awards by the Sidney Hillman Foundation for books that illuminate the great issues of the day. See, for example, 2010 Hillman Prizes for book, magazine, newspaper, broadcast, and photo- journalism. The Foundation also awards monthly Sidney Awards for an outstanding piece of socially conscious journalism. "We are looking for investigative work that fosters social and economic justice."

Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship (supports work by academics, independent scholars, writers, filmmakers, novelists, or creative and performing artists working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830)

Hurston/​Wright Legacy Award. The first national award presented to published writers of African descent by the national community of black writers -- with prizes for the highest quality writing in the categories of fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction, poetry.

IABC Gold Quill Awards (global awards recognizing outstanding achievement in communication, sponsored by International Association of Business Communicators). A complex, expensive award submission process.

Idea Grants. National Association of Science Writers grants ($1,000 to $50,000)to individuals or groups for projects and programs designed to help science writers in their professional lives and/​or to benefit the field of science writing).

Ig Nobel Prizes. Administered by Improbable Research (research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK). Among award winners: The definite article: acknowledging ‘The’ in index entries, Glenda Browne's article in The Indexer, for her paper on the many ways "the" causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order. Those qualified may join The Luxurious Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. See also Paul Krugman's 24/​7 lecture ("24 seconds of impenetrable jargon, followed by a 7-word explanation of your field").

Indies Choice Book Awards (ICBA), chose by indie booksellers across U.S., in these categories: Best Indie Buzz Book (fiction), Best Conversation Starter (nonfiction), Best Author Discovery, Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book (fiction), Best New Picture Book, Most Engaging Author.

The International Reporting Project (IRP) fellowships (offers IRP Fellowships for U.S. journalists to cover neglected, “under-reported” health stories of global importance (on topics such as malaria, HIV/​AIDS, tuberculosis, water-related diseases, maternal and child health or new scientific research aimed at reducing the impact of global diseases)

International Writers Fellowship at Brown University awards a one-year fellowship to Brown's Program in Literary Arts for an international writer or poet who faces personal danger and threats to their livelihood. Fellowships cover the costs of relocation and the writer's expenses in the U.S., and provide an office on the campus of Brown University for ten months. Deeply practical in nature and intention, the International Writers Fellowships will allow persecuted writers to establish a new environment in which to pursue their work.

Ippies, the only New York area competition recognizing excellence among journalists, photographers, graphic artists, editors and publishers of the ethnic and community press, given by the New York Community Media Alliance. Different from the Ippy given by the Independent Book Publishers.

James Jones Fellowship for a First Novel. Annual fellowship of $10,000 for a work-in-progress of fiction (novella, or collection of closely linked stories) by a U.S. writer who has not yet published a novel

Japan-U.S. Creative Artists Program 2012, residencies sponsored by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts to published U.S. poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers to live in Japan and pursue creative projects. A monthly stipend of 400,000 yen for living expenses, 100,000 yen a month as a housing supplement, and up to 100,000 yen a month for professional support services (totaling roughly $7,000 or enough to live on in Japan. Extremely competitive.

Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism. Fellowships give mid-career journalists the time and training they need to learn to produce multimedia projects. See FAQ.

Knight Digital Media Center week-long boot camps in Multimedia Skills for traditional journalists at the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California Berkeley.

Knight Science Journalism Fellowships for self-motivated journalists who hope to improve their coverage of science, technology, medicine or the environment. Each year 10 to 12 journalists devise their own plan of study, auditing courses at MIT and Harvard, attending lectures and colloquia, and interviewing faculty members. Fellows receive a stipend of $65,000 plus tuition and benefits.

Knight-Wallace Fellowships at the University of Michigan (for experienced full-time journalists--several general and specialized fellowships available)

Kyoto Prize Journalism Fellowship. Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) awards spring and fall fellowships to working journalists who want to advance their knowledge in technology, sciences, and the arts. Fellows interview the latest Kyoto Prize laureates and interact with top journalism students at Point Loma Nazarene University.

Lambda Literary Awards, awarded to the finest lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans literature available in the United States. The “Lammy” is the most prestigious, competitive, and comprehensive literary award offered specifically to LGBT authors.

Lannan Literary Foundation, a private family foundation dedicated to promoting cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity, supports lucrative literary awards and fellowships and
literary grants (supporting publishers and distributors, literary journals, residency programs, educational programs, and literary centers).

Gilder Lehrman Institute of History (short-term fellowships for post-doc research in New York City)

Gilder Lehrman National Book Prizes. The Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and George Washington Book Prizes for outstanding books in American History are among the most prestigious awards for history writing in the United States:
• The Lincoln Book Prize ($50,000, awarded annually, in partnership with Gettysburg College) for the best book (the finest scholarly work in English) on Lincoln or the Civil War era. When submissions carry similar merit, preference is shown for work on Abraham Lincoln or the common soldier, or work that reaches a broad literate public.
• The Frederick Douglass Book Prize ($25,000 awarded annually, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University) for an outstanding book about slavery or abolition.
• The George Washington Book Prize ($50,000 awarded annually, in partnership with Washington College and Mount Vernon) for outstanding published works that contribute to a greater understanding of the life and career of George Washington and/​or the founding era.

Leon Levy Biography Fellowships ($60,000 stipend). Fellows must participate in monthly seminars and other programs at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at The Graduate Center, CUNY. There are also Biography Dissertation Fellowships for PhD candidates.

Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Prizes of $3,500 each to Virginia authors of poetry, fiction, nonfiction (and, in the case of nonfiction, by any author about a Virginia subject), and for literary lifetime achievement.

Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography (£5,000 presented annually for a historical biography published the preceding year)

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes in several categories: Biography, Current Interest, Fiction, First Fiction (Art Seidenbaum Award), Graphic Novel, History, Mystery/​Thriller, Poetry, Science & Technology, Young Adult Literature. There is also a Robert Kirsch Award and an Innovator's Award.

J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation:
• The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (a $10,000 award) recognizes superb examples of nonfiction writing that exemplify literary grace, a commitment to serious research and social concern.
• The Mark Lynton History Prize ($10,000) is awarded to the book-length work of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression.
• The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award ($30,000) is given annually to aid in the completion of a significant work of nonfiction.
Sponsored by the family of the late Mark Lynton, a historian and senior executive at the firm Hunter Douglas in the Netherlands.

MacDowell Colony residency fellowships (for residencies year-round, on a 450-acre estate in Peterborough, New Hampshire, of up to two months for emerging and professional artists in fields of architecture, film/​video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts). Go here for answers to frequently asked questions.

Man Asian Literary Prize (annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer, written in English or translated into English--$30,000 USD to writer, $5,000 to translator, if any). Long list of 10-15 titles announced in October, shortlist in January, winner in March.

The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference is associated with various Mayborn contests and opportunities, including cash awards for the Mayborn Writing Competition for Reported Narrative, Personal Essay, and Book Manuscript. Mayborn has also introduced a Young Spurs Biography Contest to encourage young biographers.

Medicine in the Media (NIH's free but selective annual training opportunity to help develop journalists' and editors’ ability to evaluate and report on medical research)

Medill-sponsored awards (Medill Northwestern University)
• The Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism (to the individual or team of journalists, working for a U.S.-based media outlet, who best displayed moral, ethical or physical courage in the pursuit of a story or series)
• John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism (honors the best public interest magazine journalism of the previous year)
• The Ida B. Wells Award (honors media executives whose actions demonstrate a commitment to a diverse newsroom or coverage of minorities in American journalism)

Mercantile Library Center for Fiction awards including the
• Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize ($10,000 for the best debut novel of the year, and $1,000 to shortlisted authors)
• Maxwell E. Perkins Award (to an editor, publisher, or agent who over the course of their career has discovered, nurtured, and championed writers of fiction)
• The Clifton Fadiman Medal ($5,000, to honor a book, by a living American author, which deserves renewed recognition and a wider readership.
• Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism (devoted to the support and encouragement of emerging critics--two critics receive $5,000)

Metcalf Fellowships. The Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting offers an Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists(at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography). Fellowships include
• Environmental Reporting Fellowships, diversity fellowships for early-career minority journalists (provide traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic minority journalists with an opportunity to learn basic science, gain environmental research and reporting skills, and apply new knowledge and skills in an environmental reporting assignment)
• Metcalf-Yale Forum Fellowship for Climate Change and Business Reporting.

MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowship (for journalists who cover issues in aging and/​or who work for ethnic media outlets). Administered by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and New America Media (NAM); underwritten by the MetLife Foundation (awards $100K for year two of media fellowships). Here's a list of recent fellows.

Minonline Editorial and Design Awards (media and pr professionals showcase their best communications initiatives). I stumbled on this award through this award winner for video: My Grandma's Tattoo (AARP Bulletin, 3 generations discover an indelible family anchor)

Montreal International Poetry Prize ($50,000 for one poem, in English). As reported by Poets&Writers, New Fifty-Thousand-Dollar Poetry Prize Has Global Ambitions (G&A, Prize Reporter, 4-4-11)

Jenny McKean Moore fellowship and workshop (a creative writing fellowship for a poet or novelist, who teaches a free community workshop for local adults, at George Washington). Explained in A Daughter Remembers Jenny Moore

National Academies Communication Awards. Four $20,000 cash prizes, through the Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI), to those who best bring science, engineering, medicine, and interdisciplinary work to the public through books, newspapers, television, radio, films and online media (elsewhere on site it says "within and beyond the scientific community"). Site for nominations.

National Book Awards (National Book Foundation, $10,000, prestigious awards in four genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature). See winners, alphabetical by genre (also showing former categories). Winners are selected by five-member, independent judging panels for each genre.

National Book Critics Circle awards:
• National Book Critics Circle awards for fiction, biography, poetry, criticism, general nonfiction, and autobiography
• Frequently asked questions
• Past NBCC award winners and finalists (first page of two or more)
• Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing (awarded only to a member of the National Book Critics Circle)
• The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award (seems to have no permanent website link). Named after the first president of the NBCC, the award is given annually to a person - a writer, publisher, critic, or editor, among others - who has, over time, made significant contributions to book culture. Past winners have included Dalkey Archive Press, Joyce Carol Oates, PEN American Center, Pauline Kael, Studs Terkel, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bill Henderson, John Leonard, Louis D. Rubin Jr., Jason Epstein, William Maxwell, Leslie A. Marchand, Robert Giroux, Alfred Kazin, Elizabeth Hardwick, and the Library of America.

National Indie Excellence Awards (sponsored by book shepherd Ellen Reid)

National Mature Media Awards (for the best marketing, communications, educational materials and programs for adults 50 and older)

National Press Photographers Association competitions (by photojournalists, for photojournalists--for members only): Best of Photojournalism (for Photo Editing, Still Photography, Web Site, and TV News Video Photography and Editing); NPPA Solo Video Contest (for Photo Editors, TV Photographers, Solo Videojournalists, and TV Editors); Monthly News Clip Contests; and Monthly Multimedia Contest.

Nautilus Awards, for books & audiobooks for children and teens--books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living, and positive social change, that change the world or change lives; silver and gold awards for books that contribute to the fields of high-level wellness, green values, responsible leadership, as well as to the worlds of art, creativity and inspiration)

Nebula Awards for excellence in science fiction writing (Science Fiction Writers of America, SFWA). Entry guidelines here.

Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction ($1500 and publication in Colorado Review, for a short story).

NewsLab's excellent links to journalism fellowships

New Voices grants (a 2010 J-Lab program to seed innovative community news -- citizen media -- ventures in the U.S.)

New York Foundation for the Arts. An extensive national directory of awards, services, and publications for artists (over 4,500 arts organizations, 3,600 award programs, 4,700 service programs, and 900 publications for individual artists). NYFA also provides grants to small and medium-size organizations in New York state. Check out Grant Opportunities on the NYFA blog.
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scientists awards these fellowships tocreenwriters who have not earned more than $5,000 writing fictional work for film or television.

New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (these Australian literary prizes that range in value from $5,000 to $40,000)

Nieman Foundation Awards:
Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism ($20,000) honors investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being ill-served. These stories may involve state, local or national government, lobbyists or the press itself
Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers (one $10,000 award and two for $1000, to encourage fairness in news coverage by America's daily newspapers (the Taylor family published the Boston Globe).

North American Travel Journalists Association awards, honoring the “best of the best” from travel media (writers, photographers, video journalists) and travel promotion submitted by travel journalists, travel magazines, public relations agencies and destination marketing organizations (DMOs/​CVBs)

Online journalism awards for 2011 announced (six awards come with a total of $33,000 in prize money). For 2011, entries came to the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (University of Texas at Austin)

Open Society Fellowship supports individuals (journalists, activists, academics and practitioners) seeking innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental challenges in an open society. See full list of Soros grants.

Orange Prize for Fiction (£30,000 prize, which celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world)

Oregon Book Awards

Orwell Prize, Britain's most prestigious prize for political writing -- with prizes for the book, the journalism, and (since 2009) the blog.

Peabody Awards, the world's oldest annual honor in electronic media, especially for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. The Peabodys honor distinction and achievement in broadcast journalism, documentary film making, educational and children's programming, and entertainment. The Peabody was first awarded in 1941 for radio programs from 1940; TV awards were added in 1948 and awards for material distributed on the Web were introduced in the 1990s. Wikipedia lists Peabody Award winners by year. Administered by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia

Alicia Patterson Fellowship. Prestigious, highly competitive fellowship award, established to improve the quality of U.S. print journalism. Open only to U.S. citizens who are fulltime print journalists, or to non-U.S. citizens who work fulltime for U.S. print publications, either in America or abroad. One-year grants of $40,000 and six-month grants of $20,000 are awarded to working print journalists and photographers, to pursue independent projects of significant interest.

PEN/​Faulkner Foundation awards. Awards administered by the foundation:
• PEN/​Faulkner Award for Fiction ($15,000 to winner, $5,000 to finalists). Honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year
• PEN/​Malamud Award ($5,000). To honor excellence in the art of the short story.

PEN American literary awards (those administered by PEN America) include:
• PEN/​Nabokov Award ($20,000 biennially in even-numbered years). Honors a living author whose body of work, published in the United States, either written in or translated into English, represents achievement in a variety of literary genres, and is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship
• PEN/​Robert W. Bingham Prize ($25,000). Honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.
• PEN/​Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction(founded by Barbara Kingsolver, $25,000), awarded biennially to the author of a previously unpublished novel that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships.)
• PEN/​W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career ($10,000). Honors an author who has published at least 3 significant works of literary fiction, either novels or short story collections, with the promise of more to come.
• Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000). Offered annually to an author of children's or young-adult fiction.
• PEN/​E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000). To a book of literary nonfiction on the subject of the physical and biological sciences.
• PEN/​Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ($5,000). To a book of essays that best exemplifies the dignity and esteem of the essay form.
• PEN/​ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports Writing ($5,000). To a living writer for exceptional contributions to the field of literary sports writing.
• PEN/​Steven Kroll Award Honoring the Author of an Illustrated Children’s Book ($5,000). To an American or U.S.-based writer for an exceptional story illustrated in a picture book.
• PEN Emerging Writers Awards ($1,660). To three promising writers — one fiction writer, one nonfiction writer, and one poet.
• PEN/​Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($5,000 to the best author of a distinguished biography published in the United States)
• PEN/​Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000) To a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective.
• PEN Open Book Award ($5,000). To an author of color who has not received wide media coverage.
• PEN/​Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry ($5,000). To a new and emerging American poet of any age showing promise of further literary achievement.
• PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000) Recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English published during the current year.
• PEN American Center Awards for Translation

PEN Writers Emergency Fund, plus a list of additional resources for writers (including emergency funds, crisis advice and advocacy, health insurance, government programs, emergency shelter and food provisions)

PEN Northwest Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency (a seven-month residency, stipend $5,000, in southwest Oregon's back country (competition open to poets, fiction writers, or creative nonfiction writers)

PEN/​New England's Hemingway Foundation PEN Award for a first work of fiction by an American author.

Pen-Oakland Literary Awards. The "Blue-Collar" PEN issues the Josephine Miles Award (to honor writers of exceptional works often not acknowledged by the mainstream literary community), a Literary Censorship Award (honoring authors of literature of conscience who may have suffered censorship, efforts to discredit or failure to distribute/​review their work based on philosophical or cultural content), and the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award. Awards described generally in NY Times Bay Area blog entry, The ‘Blue-Collar’ PEN Awards (Felicity Barringer, 12-4-09).

Maxwell E. Perkins Award, to honor the work of an editor, publisher, or agent who over the course of his or her career has discovered, nurtured and championed writers of fiction in the United States (presented by the Center for Fiction, Mercantile Library, NYC, in honor of Perkins, one of the publishing industry's most important editors).

Poetry Awards, lists of, with links:
***Poets & Writers' detailed list of contests, grants, and awards
• Poetry Society of America links to poetry contests for books, for chapbooks, and for single poems
• Wikipedia list of poetry awards from around the world
• Poetry and Verse (Writers and Editors -- see Awards and Contests)

Poets & Writers funding for readings/​workshops

Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing ($100,000)

Prix Italia (prestigious international competition, with awards for excellence in radio, TV and Web programs (drama, documentaries, music and performing arts)

Project Report (a contest for nonprofessional, aspiring journalists to tell stories that might not otherwise be told, shown as short video journalism on YouTube, sponsored by the Pulitzer Center and Sony)

Pulitzer Prizes.The prestigious Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. Prizes of $10,000 are awarded to twenty winners, and one gold medal is awarded to a newspaper (though an individual may be named). Prizes in Letters are for books published in the United States: fiction, biography, general nonfiction, history, and poetry.

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (Travel grants to cover hard costs associated with upcoming travel for an international reporting project. Our ideal project offers print, photography, radio, and video. Our definition of "crisis" is broad. We see great value in covering the too often under-reported systemic level crises, from environmental issues and struggles for resources or human rights abuses, to post-conflict reconstruction, or brewing ethnic tensions. We are interested in the stories that would typically not make the headlines without our support.) Check out Untold Stories: Dispatches from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

PUMA Creative Catalyst Award (PUMA and BRITDOC, for an international documentary filmmaker with a story to tell, but not necessarily the resources to do it -- developed to give filmmakers the funds to develop trailers for their films). Apply at BRITDOC. See finalist trailers.

Rachel Carson Intergenerational Sense of Wonder Contest. Intergenerational teams of two or more compete in a poetry, essay, photography and dance contest "that best expresses the Sense of Wonder that you feel for the sea, the night sky, forests, birds, wildlife, and all that is beautiful to your eyes." Co-sponsored by EPA, Generations United, The Dance Exchange, National Center for Creative Aging, and the Rachel Carson Council, Inc.,

Radio/​Media Awards Directory (AIR wiki, Association of Independents in Radio)

Radio/​Media Fellowships and Grants Directory (AIR wiki)

Rea Award for the Short Story ($30,000 to a living American or Canadian writer whose work has made a “significant contribution to the discipline of the short story form.” Sponsored by the Dungannon Foundation.

Rebecca Caudill Young
Readers' Book Award (annual award given to the author of the book voted most outstanding by students in grades 4 through 8 in participating Illinois schools)

River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize (for a book-length manuscript of literary nonfiction -- award: $1,000 and publication by University of Nebraska Press)

Rita Awards (Romance Writers of America), awards for outstanding published romance novels and novellas -- a huge contest with many competitors, plus several other awards.

Romance writing workshops, conferences, and writing contests (Once Upon a Romance site)

Royal Society book prizes (UK, $$$) include the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, celebrating the best in popular science writing (authors of six shortlisted books each receive £1,000 and the winner receives £10,000) and the Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize, celebrating the best books that communicate science to young people (authors of six shortlisted books each receive £1,000 and the winner receives £10,000.

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ($100,000 annually). This prestigious award honors a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition (administered by the Poetry Foundation).

Screenwriting Contests, Directory (MovieBytes), which can be viewed through different filters. Particularly useful may be Most Significant Screenwriting Contests (user-ranked through MovieBytes "Report Card" system) Check out the Comments on each contest. See also Choosing the Best Scriptwriting Contest for You (FilmScripting.Com)

Ann M. Sperber Biography Award (for exceptional achievement in writing and research in a biography about a person in the field of journalism or media studies). Submit seven copies.

Sydney Taylor Book Award for outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience.

Society of Children's Book Writers & Publishers (SCBWI) awards and grants. Five annual awards: the Golden Kite Awards, the Sid Fleischman Humor Award, the Magazine Merit Awards, the Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award, and the Portfolio Award. See deadlines for grants and awards (and links to more information about specific grants and awards).

Society for History in the Federal Government awards

Society for Technical Communications (STC) awards (worth entering for the evaluations alone)

Soros Aftermath Project Grant. A Documentary Photography Project grantee, a nonprofit organization committed to telling the other half of the story of conflict—the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace. (I'm not sure who does what here, but check it out.)

Soros (Justice) Media Fellowships

Spencer Fellowship for Education Journalism (three fellowships supporting long-form journalism that deepens and enhances the public’s understanding of the American education system)

Sperber Biography Award for biography or autobiography of a media professional (Fordham University Department of Communications and Media Studies)

Spur Awards for distinguished writing about the American West, Western Writers of America.

Starr Center Fellowships at Washington College from the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience include the
• Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship (a $45,000 stipend, health benefits, faculty privileges, a book allowance, and a nine-month residency) for a significant book-length project about the era or legacy of the American Revolution and the nation’s founding ideas (a full-time residential fellowship, and the
• Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship, worth $20,000, for academics, independent scholars and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture,or art of the Americas before 1830.

Student Stowe Prizes high school ($1,000) and college students ($2,500) who write for social justice and positive change (Harriet Beecher Stowe Center)

The Sunday Times National Short Story Prize (UK). The largest award for a single short story in the world: £15,000 for the winning story, £3,000 for the runner-up and £500 for the three other shortlisted stories. Poets & Writers reports that U.S. writer wins big for Detroit story. American author Jonathan Doerr won for his second collection, Memory Wall (see Q&A with Doerr on Amazon site.

Punch Sulzberger News Media Executive Leadership Program

Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism (tuition, fees, and a $50,000 stipend)

Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships in Science and Religion (for print, broadcast, or online journalists and editors)

UK Writing Competitions (Prizemagic)

The U.S.A. Songwriting Competition ($50,000 in cash and merchandise, honoring songwriters, composers, bands, and recording artists everywhere, regardless of nationality or country origin)

Veru Short Fiction Award (Glimmer Train Press)

Wag's Review (awards of $1,000 to $100 for top prizes, plus publication, weighed against $20 entry fee per item of poetry, essay, or fiction).

The Webby Awards, an international award honoring excellence on the Internet -- for over 100+ Website, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile & App categories -- presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Two honors are presented in every category: The Webby Award and The People's Voice Award. This is different from the next listing:

Weblog awards for 2011 (Bloggies) and for 2012 the URL is http:/​/​2012.bloggi.es/​

Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize ($10,000 annual prize to a poet with strong connections to central Virginia).

Wellcome Trust Book Prize (£25 000 award each year for the finest fiction or nonfiction book centered on medicine, and published by a U.K publisher)

Whiting Writers' Awards ($50,000 each, given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays, based on accomplishment and promise). Sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. See Wikipedia's list of prizewinners.

Willa Awards (for outstanding literature featuring women's stories set in the West: contemporary fiction, historical fiction, creative nonfiction, scholarly nonfiction, poetry, original softcover fiction (trade or mass market), and children's and young adult fiction and nonfiction)

Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, announced during Comic-Con International

Witter Byner Foundation for Poetry. Grants from $1000 to $10,000 for organizations and, though Poet Laureate and Library of Congress, for individual poets.

Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (now officially the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction - the UK's only literary prize for comic writing). In 2011 an American captured the prize: Gary Shteyngart (Washington Post profile by Neely Tucker).

Women Arts Funding Lists

WonderMark Awards are given for documents that are the opposite of plain language, that are hard to understand, much less use. This is "your chance to tell the world what’s not plain. Forms, signage, websites. Disclaimers, instructions, legal documents. All the things you encounter in daily life." Nominate them! The winner for 2010: the I-94 Form, the document visitors from other countries must fill out when they come to the U.S. Here's How to submit a WonderMark nomination.

Writers' Conferences & Centers (a member-based international directory, for which listings are available to the public, apparently run by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs)

Writer's Digest writing competitions:
• Annual Writer's Digest Competition in ten categories: Inspirational Writing (Spiritual/​Religious), Memoirs/​Personal Essay, Magazine Feature Article, Genre Short Story (Mystery, Romance, etc.), Mainstream/​Literary Short Story, Rhyming Poetry, Non-rhyming Poetry, Stage Play, Television/​Movie Script, Children's/​Young Adult Fiction
• Poetry Awards
• Self-Published Book Awards
• Short Short Story Competition
• Your Story (a short story of 750 words or few, based on a writing prompt--every other month--see Your Story winners here

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Getting Funded:
Grant proposal writing (organizations,workshops, guides)

Links to Some Grant-Funding Resources
• NYFA SourceNew York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA),an extensive national directory of awards, services, and publications for artists, with listings for over 4,500 arts organizations, 3,600 award programs, 4,700 service programs, and 900 publications for individual artists across the country.
• Grants & Awards. The PEN guide, formerly a book, is now an online database to which you can subscribe ($10 for members, $12 for non-members)
• Newswise Journalism Grants & Fellowships Calendar (you may have to sign in)
• Newswise Guide to Journalism Awards (2006-2007)
• Newswise Guide to Journalism Grants and Fellowships (2006-2007)
• Women Arts Funding Lists
• Radio/​Media Fellowships and Grants Directory (AIR wiki, Association of Independents in Radio)

Workshops on grant proposal writing
• Proposal Writing Short Course (Online, Foundation Center) -- excellent quicky guide; the Foundation Center offers a number of online training courses to heop you learn to write grant proposals.
• American Grant Writers' Association (AGWA) (offers a grant-writing workshop, review, and exam for certification and online courses)
• Associated Grant Makers Common Proposal Form
• Common proposal forms (Foundation Center)
• Grant Professionals Association (GPA) (formerly American Association of Grant Professionals, AAGP)
• Non-profit guides (grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations)

Useful links on applying for grant funding
• All About Grants (helpful tutorials from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases)
• About the Center for Scientific Review (helpful information about CSR, the portal for NIH grant applications and their review for scientific merit)
• Annotated Grant Proposal (AuthorAID provides a grant application/​proposal with notes on it that identify various strengths, for developing country researchers, PDF)
• Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP)
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy (type "grant seeking" into the search window and you'll find helpful articles)
• Glossary & Acronym List for NIH grants
• Grant Professionals Association (GPA, formerly American Association of Grant Professionals)
• Grant Proposal Writing Tips (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
• Grant Writing Tips Sheets (NIH Office of Extramural Research), includes podcasts
• Grant-writing tools for nonprofit organizations (Non-profit guides)
• NIH Forms & Applications
• NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Information about Requests for Applications (RFAs), Program Announcements (PAs), Recent Notices, Inactive and Active Announcements
• Proposal Preparation Checklist (Deborah Kluge, Proposal Writing, Government Contracting)
• Resources for Writing and Editing Grant Proposals (Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, KOK Edit, 1-26-11)
• Vanderbilt University Tools for Grant Writign
• What Grantmakers Want Applicants to Know (Guidestar, July 2003)



A few books on grant proposal writing and fundraising
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• The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing by Jane C. Geever
• Fundraising for Social Change, ed Kim Klein
• Getting Funded: The Complete Guide to Writing Grant Proposals by Mary S. Hall and Susan Howlett
• Grant Seeking in an Electronic Age by Victoria Mikelonis, Signe T. Betsinger, and Constance E. Kampf
• Grantwriting Beyond the Basics: Proven Strategies Professionals Use to Make Their Proposals Work, Book 1 by Michael K. Wells
• Grant Writing For Dummies by Beverly A. Browning
• Grassroots Grants: An Activist's Guide to Grantseeking
• The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need: Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets by Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox
• Storytelling for Grantseekers: The Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising by Cheryl A. Clarke
• Winning Grants Step by Step by Mim Carlson, Tori O'Neal-McElrath, and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management
• Writing for a Good Cause: The Complete Guide to Crafting Proposals and Other Persuasive Pieces for Nonprofits by Joseph Barbato and Danielle Furlich
Writing the NIH Grant Proposal: A Step-by-Step Guide

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