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
Cynthia Zarin 1997 Creative Writing
Geoffrey Brock 2003 Creative Writing
Steven Gehrke 2007 Creative Writing
Benjamin Percy 2012 Creative Writing
Samrat Upadhyay 2016 Creative Writing
Keorapetse Kgositsile 1970 Creative Writing
Nancy Westerfield 1975 Creative Writing
Pietro di Donato 1977 Creative Writing
Sandra McPherson 1979 Creative Writing
Kenneth O. Hanson 1981 Creative Writing
Russell Banks 1983 Creative Writing
Helen Degen Cohen 1988 Creative Writing
Paul Malone 1990 Creative Writing
Ellenora Beth Lordan 1993 Creative Writing
Abby Frucht 1996 Creative Writing
Jonathan Franzen 2002 Creative Writing
David Hernandez 2011 Creative Writing
Renée Branum 2020 Creative Writing
George Stanley 1969 Creative Writing
Thomas McGrath 1974 Creative Writing