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The Amazon Literary Partnership has announced $1 million in grant funding to 66 organizations across the country. It has also donated emergency relief funding to Artist Relief and PEN America Writer’s Emergency Fund, both of which are providing grants directly to writers impacted by Covid-19. In addition, Amazon awarded $120,000 in grants to the Academy of American Poets and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses to establish a poetry fund and literary magazine fund, respectively.
The program has been active since 2009, and has awarded more than 175 organizations more than $13 million in grant funding in total over the past 10 years. Grant recipients, according to Amazon, include “nonprofit writing centers, residencies, fellowships, after-school classes, literary magazines, national organizations supporting storytelling and free speech, and publishers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.”
“The Amazon Literary Partnership champions organizations that support writers, poets, translators, and diverse voices at every stage in their career,” Alexandra Woodworth, manager of the Amazon Literary Partnership, said in a statement. “Given the impact COVID-19 has had on the literary community, we are proud to continue to fund these remarkable organizations sustaining the literary culture in our communities now and for the future.”
This year’s grant recipients include a range of organizations from 24 states and Washington, D.C, including such new grant recipients as Deep Vellum Publishing, City of Asylum Pittsburgh, the Center for Africa, and LitNet as well as such organizations asAsian American Writers Workshop, Lambda Literary, National Novel Writing Month, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35, Words without Borders, and Poets & Writers, all of which have received funding before.
This year’s recipients are:
- 826 Valencia
- 826NYC
- Academy of American Poets
- Archipelago Books
- Artist Relief
- Artist Trust
- Asian American Writers’ Workshop
- Aspen Words
- Association of Writers & Writing Programs
- Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute
- Brooklyn Book Festival.org
- Center for the Art of Translation
- Centrum
- Chicago Humanities Festival
- City of Asylum Pittsburgh
- Clarion West
- Coffee House Press
- Community of Literary Magazines & Presses
- Community-Word Project
- Creative Writing Program, University of Washington
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Feminist Press, Inc.
- Girls Write Now
- Graywolf Press
- GrubStreet
- Hedgebrook
- House of SpeakEasy
- Hub City Writers Project
- Humanities Washington
- Indiana Writers Center
- Jack Jones Literary Arts
- Kenyon Review
- Kundiman
- Lambda Literary
- Lighthouse Writers Workshop
- LitNet: The Literary Network
- Loft, Inc. (The Loft Literary Center)
- Milkweed Editions
- Narrative 4, Inc.
- National Book Critics Circle Board
- National Book Foundation
- National Novel Writing Month
- Open Letter Books/Best Translated Book Award
- PEN America
- PEN America Writer’s Emergency Fund
- Restless Books
- Richard Hugo House
- Seattle Arts & Lectures
- Seattle City of Literature
- Seattle Public Library
- Small Press Distribution
- The Center for Fiction
- The Corporation of Yaddo
- The Inner Loop
- The MacDowell Colony
- The Moth
- The Africa Center
- The Telling Room
- The Writer’s Block: Writing Downtown Residency
- Town Hall Seattle
- Transit Books
- Ucross Foundation
- Washington Center for the Book
- Words Without Borders
- WriteGirl
- Writers in the Schools
- Young Writers Project
- Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation
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