Amazon Literary Partnership seeks to fund organizations working to champion diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented authors and storytellers.
Donor Name: Amazon
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/14/2023
Details:
The Amazon Literary Partnership is committed to uplifting and amplifying the voices of overlooked writers by supporting the literary community through grants to writing programs, and nonprofit literary organizations and groups whose mission is to champion writers and diversity in storytelling.
Since 2009, the Amazon Literary Partnership has assisted thousands of writers by providing $15 million in grants to more than 150 organizations, including the National Book Foundation, Cave Canem, Girls Write Now, Hurston Wright Foundation, PEN America, Poets & Writers, National Novel Writing Month, Words Without Borders, and more. They support literary centers, writing workshops and residencies, fellowships, literary magazines, independent publishers, poetry and translation programs. Writers supported by these organizations have become bestselling authors and literary award winners.
Grants are given to innovative groups whose core mission is to support diverse, underserved, and marginalized writers, develop emerging writers and/or build the careers of working writers to connect them with readers. They help writers across all genres and formats, fiction and nonfiction, including poetry and translation.
This year, Amazon is excited to again work with the Academy of American Poets for their Poetry Fund, which will administer 10-15 grants. The Academy of American Poets is the nation’s largest membership-based nonprofit organization advocating for American poets and poetry, with a mission to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.
Goal
With the goal of helping writers tell their stories and find their readers, the Amazon Literary Partnership supports nonprofit literary organizations that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive. They provide grant funding to innovative groups that amplify diverse voices and strive not only for a lasting impact on writers’ lives but on the broader literary and publishing communities.
Eligible Applicants
- To be eligible, the applicant must be nonprofit organization registered in the United States.
- The applicant organization’s primary purpose must be to develop emerging writers, support diversity, celebrate storytelling, and help authors advance their careers.
- To be considered for the funding, applicants should be structurally and financially sound; display energy, passion, and reach; have an online presence and an enthusiastic membership or readership.
- Amazon rarely supports school-affiliated programs (K-12, MFAs).
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