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
Bertram, Jr. Fairchild 1988 Creative Writing
Pamela Painter 1988 Creative Writing
Harold Stuart 1976 Creative Writing
Peter Michelson 1976 Creative Writing
Edwin Honig 1977 Creative Writing
Sonia Sanchez 1977 Creative Writing
John A. Williams 1978 Creative Writing
Thomas Farber 1978 Creative Writing
Joel Oppenheimer 1979 Creative Writing
Mitchell Wieland 2012 Creative Writing
David Milofsky 1989 Creative Writing
Bradford Barkley 1994 Creative Writing
Vern Rutsala 1979 Creative Writing
Reginald Flood 2013 Creative Writing
Richard Perry 1989 Creative Writing
Thomas Bailey 1994 Creative Writing
Rajesh Parameswaran 2014 Creative Writing
Genaro Gonzalez 1990 Creative Writing
Jean Janzen 1995 Creative Writing
Wallace Stegner 1990 Creative Writing