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
Quintin Peterson 1977 Creative Writing
Shirley Kaufman 1979 Creative Writing
Larry Heinemann 1981 Creative Writing
Sandra Jackson-Opoku 1983 Creative Writing
Irena Klepfisz 1988 Creative Writing
Pedro Juan Gutierrez 1990 Creative Writing
Elliot Richman 1993 Creative Writing
Ann Pancake 1996 Creative Writing
Joseph Skibell 2002 Creative Writing
Donald Platt 2011 Creative Writing
Liz Breazeale 2020 Creative Writing
Hayden Carruth 1969 Creative Writing
Thomas Crawford 1974 Creative Writing
Freya Manfred 1977 Creative Writing
John Latta 1979 Creative Writing
Bette Howland 1981 Creative Writing
Harold Jaffe 1983 Creative Writing
Mekeel McBride 1985 Creative Writing
Doris Rochlin 1990 Creative Writing
Richard Robbins 1992 Creative Writing