The Grant Desk - Writers, US https://www.artificialnouveau.com/smalltools/grants/ Paid open calls, fellowships and residencies in AI, tech, research, and digital and mixed-media arts, sorted into the right pile. Updated as new calls land on the desk. Filtered to: Writers, US. en 360 Wed, 20 May 2026 19:44:26 +0000 Letras Boricuas Fellowship 2026 (5th and final cohort) https://flamboyanfoundation.org/beca-letras-boricuas/ letras-boricuas-fellowship-2026 Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 US us puerto-rico diaspora writers fiction nonfiction poetry playwriting spoken-word flamboyan mellon-foundation unrestricted Organisation: Flamboyan Arts Fund, in partnership with the Mellon Foundation

Location: Puerto Rico and its diaspora (remote; writers with sustained ties to Puerto Rico)

Award: $25,000 unrestricted award to each of 24 fellows. No application fee.

Duration: One-off unrestricted fellowship

Deadline: 22 May 2026

Fifth and final cohort of the Letras Boricuas Fellowship, awarding unrestricted support to writers with deep, sustained ties to Puerto Rico and its diaspora. ELIGIBILITY: emerging and established writers across fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, spoken word and playwriting, who demonstrate a sustained connection to Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Apply via the Flamboyan Arts Fund portal.

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]]> Whiting Foundation: Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress 2026 https://www.whiting.org/writers/nonfiction-grant-for-works-in-progress/about whiting-nonfiction-grant-2026 Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 US nonfiction writing book grant us uk canada research publishing works-in-progress Organisation: Whiting Foundation

Location: Canada, UK, or US (project must be under contract with a publisher in one of these three countries)

Award: $40,000 to each of ten writers ($400,000 total).

Duration: Per project (mid-process stage of a multiyear book project)

Deadline: 31 May 2026

Annual grant from the Whiting Foundation supporting writers completing deeply researched, imaginatively composed book-length nonfiction for a general adult readership. Ten grants of $40,000 each, intended for the mid-process stage of multiyear projects after substantial progress but before the final work is complete. Eligible categories include history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, science, philosophy, criticism, graphic nonfiction, and personal essays. Excluded: self-help, historical fiction, textbooks, books for a scholarly audience, books for young readers, and self-published projects. Hard eligibility constraint: project must be under contract with a publisher in Canada, the UK, or the US by 31 May 2026, with a fully executed contract uploaded; no extensions are granted for contracts not signed by both parties by the application deadline. Application includes the original proposal, up to 15,000 words from the draft, statement of work yet to be completed, plan for use of funds, three written responses on premise/research methods/narrative approach, signed contract, 2-4 page resume, list of prior funding for the book, and a required letter of support from the publisher (plus optional letters of recommendation). Free to apply. Grantees announced December 2026 / January 2027.

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