Guggenheim Fellowships

Award Description

Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. Fellowships are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. Candidates must apply to the Guggenheim Foundation in order to be considered.

Nominator Notes

Self-nomination

Eligibility Details

All applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. or Canada at the time of application. Awards are intended for individuals only, they are not available to organizations, institutions, or groups. Guggenheim Fellowships are not open to students (undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate).

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Awards are not available to support the writing of literature for children or young readers, or support any other type of work (e.g., films, plays, etc.) intended for young audiences.

Anthology, oral history, e-book, or textbook projects are not supported by the awards.

Published writing not regarded as appropriate for the competition includes self-published works, publications for which the author has paid, and publications by publishers who do not engage in a process of critical review of submitted work. In addition, genre work (e.g., mysteries, romance, fantasy, etc.) is not within the scope.

For all writers, if you have mainly published in periodicals, or on websites, it might be premature for you to apply here at this stage of your career, given the rigorous nature of our competition.

The application should be for a single project. Applications that attempt to span too many disparate disciplines, or that include too many objectives, are less competitive than those that propose a balanced, focused goal.

Applicants may submit the names and addresses of no more than four references; applicants should request permission from these individuals before listing them as references. Letters of recommendation will be solicited from references via email. Appropriate references are individuals who are familiar with the applicant’s professional work.

Applicants must submit three supplementary statements in PDF format:
– A brief narrative account of your career, describing your previous accomplishments. Please do not substitute a resume. This account should mention prizes, honors, and significant grants or fellowships that you have held or now hold, showing the grantor and the inclusive dates of each award.
– A list of work.
– A statement of plans for the period for which the Fellowship is requested.

Additional prize details

Prize varies between $40,000- $50,000 USD

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Previous Winners

Mark Jurdjevic

Jessica Eaton

Elena Bennett

Geoff Mann

John Zilcosky

Karen Bakker (1971 – 2024)

Örjan Sandred

Michael Hathaway

Yanqin Wu

Yong-Baek Kim

Alison McAlpine

Jorge Thielen-Armand

Kamari Maxine Clarke

Kevin Lewis O’Neill

Lenore Fahrig

Karen Solie

Federico Rosei

Diana Valencia Pineda

Eugenia Kumacheva

Amira Mittermaier