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
Donald Stap 1986 Creative Writing
James Galvin 1986 Creative Writing
Laurence Lieberman 1986 Creative Writing
Paul Estaver 1986 Creative Writing
Stephen Dobyns 1986 Creative Writing
Barbara Goldberg 1986 Creative Writing
Dudley Randall 1986 Creative Writing
Jayne Cortez 1986 Creative Writing
Leslie Scalapino 1986 Creative Writing
Paul Violi 1986 Creative Writing
Steven Millhauser 1986 Creative Writing
John Bierhorst 1986 Translation Aztec
Bharati Mukharjee 1986 Creative Writing
Edward P. Jones 1986 Creative Writing
Joan Brady 1986 Creative Writing
Linda Hogan 1986 Creative Writing
Philip Schneider 1986 Creative Writing
Tama Janowitz 1986 Creative Writing
Ronald Christ 1986 Translation Spanish
C. D. Worsley 1986 Creative Writing