Closed · 2025NEA03LFCW · CFDA 45.024 · Discretionary
NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY 2026
Federal grant opportunity posted by National Endowment for the Arts, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $25K-$50K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- March 12, 2025
- Close date
- 35
- Expected awards
The verdict
NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY 2026 is a closed discretionary listing from National Endowment for the Arts that offered $25,000 -- $50,000 across 35 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 235 other opportunities from National Endowment for the Arts.
- $25K-$50K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 35
- expected awards
- 45.024
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY 2026 is closed (last close March 12, 2025). 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 12, 2025
Est. Total Funding
$1,750,000
Expected Awards
35
Instrument
Grant
Description
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowships program offers up to $50,000 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 primary criteria for review are the artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted writing sample. Through this program, the NEA seeks to strengthen the literary arts ecosystem by sustaining and nurturing a wide range of creative writers at various stages of their careers and to continue to expand the portfolio of American art available to people from all backgrounds. The program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years. For FY 2026, which is covered by these guidelines, fellowships in prose are available. Fellowships in poetry will be offered in FY 2027 and guidelines will be available in January 2026. You may apply only once each year. Please note: competition for fellowships is extremely rigorous. We typically receive approximately 2,000 applications each year and award fellowships to fewer than 2% of applicants.
Individual applicant lane · 2025NEA03LFCW
Grants.gov lists individuals as an eligible applicant type for NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY 2026. 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.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
View full details, application forms, and submission instructions.
Parent Grant Program
Promotion of the Arts — Grants to Organizations and Individuals
National Endowment for the Arts
Agency Contact
NEA Web Manager webmgr@arts.gov
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What to do next
NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY 2026 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
Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.
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