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$1 million will be awarded to support nonprofits that innovate new projects that address challenges to serving creative writers
New York, NY (June 8, 2026)—The Literary Arts Fund announced today that it is now accepting applications to its 2026 innovation project grant program. This is the first grant program of its kind for the nonprofit literary arts field and the second opportunity offered by the Fund, which launched in October 2025 to bolster the […]
Initiative targets chronic underfunding of literature, directing unrestricted support to literary arts nonprofits serving writers and readers across the U.S.
New York, NY (June 4, 2026)—The Literary Arts Fund announced today $7.7 million in inaugural unrestricted general operating grants to 40 literary arts organizations and publishers spanning 19 states, from Alaska to Florida, that help champion writers and reading, and the essential contributions both make to our culture, communities, and lives. The recipients, which organize […]
Literary arts nonprofits interested in applying for a Literary Arts Fund grant are encouraged to attend
The Literary Arts Fund is hosting free, online sessions for the nonprofit literary arts field that will cover the fund’s research and data about the field, budget best practices, and the fund’s innovation project grant application and grantmaking program. We invite members of the nonprofit literary arts field to attend the following: 2026 Innovation Project […]
New fund is dedicated to strengthening the field, advancing support for creative writers and ensuring their contributions to American literature for generations to come
New York, NY (October 28, 2025) – Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations—the Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Poetry Foundation, and an anonymous foundation—announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, an unprecedented effort to dramatically boost the essential yet critically underfunded nonprofit literary arts field in the United States.