Grant Amount: $500 - $1,000

Deadline: 12/31/2020

Guidelines link: Click here to view guidelines

Disciplines: Literary

Organization: PEN America

Description: To be eligible, applicants must be based in the United States, be a professional writer, and be able to demonstrate that this one-time grant will be meaningful in helping them to address an emergency situation. The fund is limited, and not every application can be supported.

The Writers’ Emergency Fund is intended to assist fiction and non-fiction authors, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, translators, and journalists.