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Find similar grantsThe Literary Arts Fund is sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Distributes grants to literary organizations across the U.
S. to support the independent and nonprofit literary community.
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Literary Arts Fund Awards $7. 7 Million to 40 Organizations and Publishers Nationwide “Books allow us to dwell in possibility, to become each other, building bonds that strengthen us as citizens and human(e) beings. ” “Nonprofit literary arts organizations are forces of democracy.
They provide the rooms and the light and the microphones for writers and readers to continue hearing and seeing each other, experiencing the freeing art of written language together that keeps us thinking, feeling, and human. ” “In their DNA, [literary arts] organizations protect the strange, the difficult, the experimental, the inscrutable, the deeply personal, the visionary.
They create spaces where anyone, regardless of background, can hear a poet at the front of the room, or sit around the table in a workshop, or stand behind a podium to read a story…” “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
” “It’s becoming clear that writing and reading is a way of simply underscoring that human connection is important, that you can know my mind and I can know yours, which is a vastly consoling idea, and we need it. ”
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The Literary Arts Fund is funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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