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
Curt Leviant 1984 Translation Yiddish
Curtis L. Johnson 1981 Creative Writing
Curtis L. Johnson 1973 Creative Writing
Curtis White 2000 Creative Writing
Cutter Wood 2018 Creative Writing
Cydney Marie Chadwick 2002 Creative Writing
Cynthia Hogue 1990 Creative Writing
Cynthia Hogue 2015 Translation French
Cynthia Huntington 1989 Creative Writing
Cynthia Huntington 1984 Creative Writing
Cynthia Kadohata 1991 Creative Writing
Cynthia MacDonald 1990 Creative Writing
Cynthia MacDonald 1973 Creative Writing
Cynthia Ozick 1968 Creative Writing
Cynthia Shearer 2000 Creative Writing
Cynthia Zarin 1997 Creative Writing
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson 2023 Creative Writing
Cyrus Cassells 2005 Creative Writing
Cyrus Cassells 1986 Creative Writing
D. A. Powell 2003 Creative Writing