Literature Fellowships

Below is a list of all NEA Literature Fellowships awarded since 1965. You can search by year, name, or fellowship type (creative writing or translation). 

We also have sections where you can find out more information about some of the fellows. You can meet some of the fellows who received creative writing awards from 2001 to the present. You can meet some of the fellows who received translation awards from 2011 to the present.

Name Year Type Language
Samuel Allen 1979 Creative Writing
Kathryn Davis 1981 Creative Writing
Roberta Silman 1983 Creative Writing
Hayden Carruth 1988 Creative Writing
Paul Lisicky 1990 Creative Writing
Eileen Pollack 1993 Creative Writing
Ingrid Hill 2002 Creative Writing
Daneen Wardrop 2011 Creative Writing
Fredrick Seidel 1969 Creative Writing
Theodore Weesner 1974 Creative Writing
Eve Olitsky 1977 Creative Writing
John Brandi 1979 Creative Writing
Barney Bush 1981 Creative Writing
Frederick Manfred 1983 Creative Writing
Marilyn Mei Ling Chin 1985 Creative Writing
Diane Glancy 1990 Creative Writing
Richard Frost 1992 Creative Writing
Jane Miller 1995 Creative Writing
Caroline Finkelstein 2001 Creative Writing
Cary Holladay 2006 Creative Writing