The General operating grants provides unrestricted funding to support a literary arts nonprofit’s mission, activities, and administrative needs.
Donor Name: Literary Arts Fund
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/19/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Literary Arts Fund was established in 2025 to dramatically increase funding for and the visibility of the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring a healthy and more robust U.S. literary culture in support of creative writers. The fund will award at least $10 million in grants to the nonprofit literary arts field in each of the next five years, concluding in 2031.
Eligibility Criteria
Literary arts nonprofits (including fiscally sponsored literary arts organizations, presses, and publications) based in the U.S. and whose primary mission directly supports creative writers and their artistic work in any one of the following ways are eligible to apply for the Literary Arts Fund’s 2026 general operating and innovation project grants:
- Present them at public events such as festivals, readings, open mics, spoken word performances, lectures, or conversations;
- Publish their work in print or digital publications such as books, chapbooks, literary journals, magazines, websites, or zines;
- Provide them with writing residencies, retreats, mentorships, or workshops;
- Build their readership and following through digital or print feature articles, interviews, reviews, online archives, or podcasts; and,
- Recognize their artistic achievement through awards, fellowships, or prizes.
- Additionally, to be eligible to apply, literary arts nonprofits must:
- Serve adult creative writers and audiences;
- Have been established for three years or more, based on the year of incorporation or contracted partnership with a fiscal sponsor (as of December 19, 2025, for 2026 general operating grant applications);
- Have a current executive director who has served in their role for at least twelve consecutive months (as of December 19, 2025, for 2026 general operating grant applications); and
- Have an annual operating budget of at least $50,000, in excess of in-kind (i.e., non-cash) contributions. For fiscally sponsored organizations and publishers: the organization or publisher, not the fiscal sponsor, must meet this requirement.
For more information, visit Literary Arts Fund
