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
Phillip Sterling 1990 Creative Writing
Gibbons Ruark 1993 Creative Writing
Bonnie L. Pike 1996 Creative Writing
Judy Doenges 2002 Creative Writing
Honoree Jeffers 2011 Creative Writing
Jill Christman 2020 Creative Writing
James Tate 1969 Creative Writing
William Gaddis 1974 Creative Writing
Gerald Wallace 1977 Creative Writing
John Unterecker 1979 Creative Writing
Calvin Forbes 1981 Creative Writing
Jacqueline Pierce Mungai 1983 Creative Writing
Michael Burkard 1985 Creative Writing
Ewing Campbell 1990 Creative Writing
Rochelle Nameroff 1992 Creative Writing
Jessica Hagedorn 1995 Creative Writing
Christopher Howell 2001 Creative Writing
Dawn Turner Trice 2006 Creative Writing
Michael David Lukas 2010 Creative Writing
Sarah Gambito 2019 Creative Writing