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
E. Hale Chatfield 1974 Creative Writing
Raymond Coreil 1976 Creative Writing
Virginia Furtwangler 1978 Creative Writing
Robert Hightower 1980 Creative Writing
Shawn Wong 1982 Creative Writing
John Roberts 1987 Creative Writing
Nina Bogin 1989 Creative Writing
Barbara Jordan 1992 Creative Writing
Thomas Farber 1994 Creative Writing
Natasha Trethewey 1999 Creative Writing
Cathy Hong 2005 Creative Writing
Joseph Leeming 2009 Creative Writing
Angela Flournoy 2018 Creative Writing
Martin Worman 1966 Creative Writing
Joseph McElroy 1973 Creative Writing
Janet Burroway 1976 Creative Writing
Louis Reile 1978 Creative Writing
Josephine Miles 1980 Creative Writing
Gerald Stern 1982 Creative Writing
Mary Jo Salter 1984 Creative Writing