• PEN Translation Prize - The $3,000 PEN Translation Prize invites submissions of book-length translations from any language into English published during the current calendar year. (Added: 10-Dec-2007 Hits: 63 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography - PEN American Center is pleased to announce the inauguration of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award. This biennial prize of $10,000 will go to the author of a distinguished biography published in the United States during the previous two calendar years. Nominations are welcome from any source: writers, editors, literary agents, or members of the literary community at large. (Added: 10-Dec-2007 Hits: 52 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing - The Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing offers an emerging writer four months of writing time to complete a first or second book. A stipend of $4,000 is granted. (Added: 5-Feb-2008 Hits: 333 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Puffin Foundation, Ltd. - The Puffin Foundation Ltd. continues to make grants that encourage emerging artists in the fields of art, music, theater, dance, photography, and literature whose works due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired. The Foundation does not have the means to fund large film/documentary proposals, grants for travel, continuing education, or the writing or publishing of books. Average grants are: $1,000.00 - $2,500.00 (Added: 2-Jan-2008 Hits: 121 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Rita Lloyd Moroney Awards - The United States Postal Service will sponsor two annual prizes for scholarship on the history of the American postal system, the Rita Lloyd Moroney Awards. Scholarship by junior scholars (undergraduates and graduate students) is eligible for a $1,000 award; scholarship by senior scholars (faculty members, independent scholars, and public historians) is eligible for a $2,000 award. Prizewinners may also have an opportunity to present their research in Washington, D.C. (Added: 7-Jul-2007 Hits: 154 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest - The Cleveland State University Poetry Center is pleased to announce the third annual Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest. One prize of $1000 and publication of the winning novella is offered for the best original novella. (Added: 29-Feb-2008 Hits: 249 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Amelia Book Island Festival Writers Scholarship - The Amelia Book Island Festival Writers Scholarship in Memory of Christa Powell Walley is dedicated to encouraging student writers in their pursuit of a literary career. The winner will receive a $1,000 college scholarship, awarded during the festival’s Lunch-with-Authors event. The scholarship honors the memory and love for writing of the late Christa Powell Walley, a young writer whose parents, Billy and Robert Powell of Amelia Island, are major donors of the scholarship fund. (Added: 19-Oct-2006 Hits: 319 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Artist Fellowship Program - Nine Fellowships of $5,000 each are awarded annually three (3) each in literary arts, performing arts, and visual arts (including media arts). Three $500 grants are also awarded to the top honorable mentions in each category. (Added: 4-Apr-2008 Hits: 161 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest - The Atlantic Monthly invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays for its Student Writing Contest.P rizes First $1,000, Second: $500, Third: $250 and one-year subscriptions to The Atlantic Monthly for seven runners-up in each category. (Added: 4-Apr-2008 Hits: 165 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• THE BARNEY AWARDS - THE BARNEY AWARDS were initiated in 2002 to recognize the best work from the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) members. They were named after two-time BWAA president Barney Nagler, who in 1972 received the first Nat Fleischer Award for excellence in boxing journalism. (Added: 19-Oct-2006 Hits: 205 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction - The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction is the largest prize of its kind in Canada and has contributed significantly to the recognition of the genre. The prize was founded to commemorate the life and work of the late Charles Taylor, one of Canada's foremost essayists and a prominent member of the Canadian literary community. (Added: 4-Mar-2007 Hits: 165 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Cintas Fellowship Program - Cintas Fellowships acknowledge creative accomplishments and encourage excellence in architecture, literature, music composition and the visual arts. Eligibility is limited to artists of Cuban citizenship or direct descent (having a Cuban parent or grandparent). Fellowships are awarded annually in the amount of $15,000 each and are paid in quarterly stipends, beginning in September, for twelve consecutive months. (Added: 23-Oct-2007 Hits: 103 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts - The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts annually awards grants of $5,000 to writers and visual artists who live in the central and western counties of New York state. Grant Recipients have used these grants in a variety of ways, including buying materials, preparing works for exhibit, and taking time to create new work. Grant categories change annually. (Added: 2-Jan-2008 Hits: 75 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• THE CROWN AWARDS - Each year, THE CROWN AWARDS recognize excellence in communication management and communication skills, with categories that include community/government relations, media relations, marketing/branding communications, special events, issues management, investor/shareholder relations, internal/employee relations, writing, publications and electronic communication. (Added: 19-Oct-2006 Hits: 282 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Cy Howard Memorial Scholarship - The Cy Howard Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing ($1,000) is alternated annually between a male and a female recipient judged to be the most promising Senior English Major with an Emphasis in Creative Writing. (Added: 5-Feb-2008 Hits: 64 Rating: 22 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

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