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Grant
PEN America U.S. Writers Aid Initiative
Funding opportunity. Deadline: 2026-10-05
- Type
- Grant
- Organizer
- PEN America
- Deadline
- 5 October 2026
- Where
- United States
- Compensation
- grants
- Disciplines
- fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, translation, journalism
About this opportunity
PEN America's U.S. Writers Aid Initiative offers grants to professional writers in the United States facing acute financial need due to emergency situations. The program supports fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, translators, and journalists with multiple application deadlines throughout 2026.
Who can apply
- Applicants must be professional writers based in the United States facing acute financial need following an emergency situation.
- Must demonstrate publication of one or more books (excluding self-published or vanity presses), multiple essays/short stories/poems in literary journals/anthologies in the last two years, a full-length play performed professionally, or be a full-time professional journalist/columnist/critic or have consistent freelance publication record in the last two years.
- Contracted forthcoming works are also considered.