Closed · 2019NEA03LFCW · CFDA 45.024 · Discretionary

NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY2020

Federal grant opportunity posted by National Endowment for the Arts, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$25K-$25K
Award range
Closed
Status
March 6, 2019
Close date
-
Expected awards

The verdict

NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY2020 is a closed discretionary listing from National Endowment for the Arts that offered $25,000 -- $25,000. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 235 other opportunities from National Endowment for the Arts.

$25K-$25K
award range
Closed
application status
45.024
CFDA program
235
other opportunities from National Endowment for the Arts

Archived opportunity record

NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY2020 is closed (last close March 6, 2019). The parent program page for CFDA 45.024 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. National Endowment for the Arts still indexes 235 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed March 6, 2019

Posted Dec 4 Closes Mar 6

Instrument

Grant

Description

•The Arts Endowment’s support of a project may begin any time between January 1, 2020, and January 1, 2021 and extend for up to two years. •You may submit only one application for FY 2020 funding. You may not apply for a Literature Fellowship under this deadline and a Translation Project under the December 5, 2018 deadline Grant Program Description The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed through an anonymous process in which the only criteria for review are artistic excellence and artistic merit. To review the applications, the National Endowment for the Arts assembles a different advisory panel every year, each diverse with regard to geography, race and ethnicity, and artistic points of view. .

Individual applicant lane · 2019NEA03LFCW

Grants.gov lists individuals as an eligible applicant type for NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY2020. This is a person-facing lane rather than a pure organization competition desk. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Arts (AR). 37 other National Endowment for the Arts listings share this eligibility-code string (16% of 236).

Code 21
Individuals

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 45.024

Promotion of the Arts — Grants to Organizations and Individuals

National Endowment for the Arts

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Agency Contact

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What to do next

NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY2020 is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 45.024 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Promotion of the Arts — Grants to Organizatio… indexes 0 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • National Endowment for the Arts lists 235 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

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