Literary Grants
Since 1963, the PEN America Literary Awards, Grants, and Fellowships Program has honored many of the most outstanding voices in literature across diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, children’s literature, translation, and drama. With the help of our partners, PEN America confers distinct grants each year to support writers and works-in-progress in diverse genres including translation, YA and middle grade writing, and oral history.
MEET THE 2023 LITERARY GRANT WINNERS
Applications for the 2025 cycle will be accepted April 1 – June 1, 2024.
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Grants
PEN/Bare Life Review Grants
The PEN/Bare Life Review Grants recognize literary works by immigrant and refugee writers. More
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists
The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists is offered annually and awards $5,000 to an author of children’s or young adult fiction. More
PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
For the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama that have not previously appeared in English in print or have appeared only in an outdated… More
PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History
The PEN/Jean Stein Grant recognizes a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. More
PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature ($5,000)
The PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature awards a grant to a translator for a work-in-progress of a book-length translation of an Italian work into English. More