2026
General Operating Grant Awardees
About the inaugural awardees:
- Comprise 40 literary arts organizations and publishers
- Span 19 states, from Alaska to Florida, plus Washington, D.C.
- Received a combined total of $7.7 million in unrestricted funds
- The newest organizations were established in 2020
- The longest-standing institutions were founded in the early seventies
- Together, they supported over 10,000 individual creative writers and reached more than 9,000,000 readers and audience members in person and online last year
- Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn, NY
- Cave Canem New York, NY
- Center for the Art of Translation San Francisco, CA
- Charlotte Lit Charlotte, NC
- Chicago Poetry Center Chicago, IL
- City of Asylum/Detroit Detroit, MI
- CityLit Project Baltimore, MD
- Copper Canyon Press Port Townsend, WA
- Deep Vellum Publishing Dallas, TX
- Gemini Ink San Antonio, TX
- Graywolf Press Minneapolis, MN
- Hub City Press Spartanburg, SC
- Indigenous Nations Poets Burlington, WI
- Just Buffalo Literary Center Buffalo, NY
- Kimbilio Saint Louis, MO
- Kweli Journal New York, NY
- Lighthouse Writers Workshop Denver, CO
- Literary Arts Portland, OR
- Literary Cleveland Cleveland, OH
- The Loft Literary Center Minneapolis, MN
- Los Angeles Review of Books Los Angeles, CA
- Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop St. Paul, MN
- Kaya Press Los Angeles, CA
- National Book Foundation New York, NY
- n+1 Brooklyn, NY
- Nightboat Books Brooklyn, NY
- Noemi Press Tucson, AZ
- North Carolina Writers’ Network Winston-Salem, NC
- Nuyorican Poets Cafe New York, NY
- O, Miami Miami, FL
- The PEN/Faulkner Foundation Washington, D.C.
- Poets House New York, NY
- Sarabande Books Louisville, KY
- Small Press Traffic San Francisco, CA
- Storyknife Writers Retreat Homer, AK
- Torch Literary Arts Austin, TX
- Transit Books Berkeley, CA
- The Watering Hole Poetry Organization Greenville, SC
- Woodland Pattern Milwaukee, WI
- Words Without Borders Brooklyn, New York