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The Hobson Foundation's 2007 Dream Grant will accept applications from September 1-November 30, 2007.
Click here for more information. 
More great contests and grants are also listed below:

Other Grants:

Check out your state’s art council for possible listings of grants. Additionally, check out the following sites for grant/award possibilities:

  • National Endowment for the Arts — Guidelines and application forms for competitive grants, including Federal Partnership funding opportunities...
    Click here for more information.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities — Specifically for writers who are involved with research, college faculty and those who work with public education (schools, museums, etc)... Click here for more information.
  • Poets & Writers - The nation's largest nonprofit literary services organization. This site has updated links for grants and awards, literary magazines, literary organizations, and writing programs....
    Click here for more information
  • Funds for Writers - Check out this site listing grants, fellowships, residencies, and the like for writers (including ordering information for the great e-book, Grants for the Serious Writer)....
    Click here for more information
  • Stegner Fellowship - Stanford University offers ten 2-year fellowships (5 fiction+5 poetry) each year (December deadline). 
    Click here for more information
  • Gift of Freedom (for women only) - The "Room of Her Own Foundation" offers 2 year grants of $50,000 for women writers (early Summer deadline).
    Click here for more information
  • The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. (for women only)  - Offers grants up to $1500 for women fiction writers (December deadline) and non-fiction/poetry writers (June deadline).  Write to: Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.,  P.O. Box 630125, Bronx, NY 10463

 

Other Writing Contests:

The Hobson Foundation’s (2006) Annual Fiction/Non-fiction Writing Contest is currently underway.  Check out "Our Writing Contest" link for details.

Beyond that, our favorite three sites for writing contests list tons of upcoming contests, deadline dates, genre information and other useful contest tidbits…they are:
freelancewriting.com and smartwriters.com and The Creative Writing Directory

Other Recommended Writing Contest Sites:

T.V. Writers
Short Story
Fiction and Screenplay
Short Story
Screenplays/Books/Plays/Short Stories/Articles
Screenplays/Books/Plays/Short Stories/Articles
Screenplays/Books/Plays/Short Stories/Articles

Poetry Contests:
http://www.jmwpublishing.com
http://www.poetry.com
http://www.webcom.com/wordings/artofwrite/contests.html
http://www.thewritersmentor.com/writing-contest.htm

Writing Contests for Students/Youth:
http://www.haemibalgassi.com/contest.html
http://www.bconnex.net/~kidworld/contest.htm
http://www.theatlantic.com/about/contest.htm
http://www.weeklyreader.com
http://www.aynrand.org
http://www.owaa.com
http://www.awordfromourplanet.com

Please feel free to contact us at writers@hobsonfoundation.com if you have any questions or if you have recommendations for sites listing pertinent information for writers....All the links listed on our website were given to us by writers who recommended their integrity; however, please follow these links at your own discretion. 

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