2026 Innovation Project Grants
Literary Arts Fund
About this opportunity
2026 Innovation Project Grant Application Guidelines The Literary Arts Fund will award a total of $1 million in grants in 2026 to literary arts nonprofits for new, one-time, and forward-thinking projects that aim to address critical structural challenges that, if improved or solved, would ultimately strengthen literary arts nonprofits’ abilities to serve creative writers. Proposed projects, which may be collaborative, should align with this description and goal and have impact beyond the project timeline. This opportunity is anticipated to be highly competitive. Nonprofit (or fiscally-sponsored) literary arts s or publishers that meet the fund’s full eligibility requirements may apply independently or as the lead of a collaborative project. Only one nonprofit may apply for collaborative pr...