PEN America

Open programs7

1. PEN America Literary Grants (multiple grants for writers and translators)

   PEN America provides a range of literary grants to support writers and their creative endeavors.

   OtherLiterature

   Deadline

   Not listed

   Amount

   $5,000

2. PEN America Submittable Login

   PEN America offers the 2026 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children's and Young Adult Novelists, a $5,000 award to support an author of children's or young adult fiction in completing a novel-in-progress of high literary caliber.

   Other

   Deadline

   Not listed

   Amount

   $5,000

3. PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature

   PEN America offers the PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature, a $5,000 award for translators working on a book-length translation of Italian literary fiction or nonfiction into English.

   Publishing/EditorialLiterature/Translation

   Deadline

   Not listed

   Amount

   $5,000

4. PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants

   PEN America offers the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants to support the translation and publication of international literature into English, with a focus on promoting underrepresented writers and languages.

   Publishing/EditorialLiterature/Translation

   Deadline

   Not listed

   Amount

   $4,000

5. PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History

   PEN America offers the PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History, providing two $15,000 awards to support the completion of literary nonfiction works that utilize oral history to explore significant events, individuals, places, or movements.

   FellowshipLiterature

   Deadline

   Not listed

   Amount

   $15,000

6. PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History

   PEN America offers two PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History annually, each providing a $15,000 cash award to support completion of a literary nonfiction project that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement.

   Research ProjectLiterary nonfiction and oral history

   Deadline

   Not listed

   Amount

   $15,000

7. PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists

   PEN America offers the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists, a $5,000 award to support authors of high literary caliber working on a novel-in-progress.

   FellowshipCreative Writing

   Deadline

   Not listed

   Amount

   $5,000

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