Since 2009, Amazon Literary Partnership has provided more than $17 million in funding to local, regional, and national organizations across the country that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive in order to reach their audiences. This year, we are honored to provide nearly $1 million in funding to 93 literary organizations across the country that support and champion writers.
At Amazon, we believe in the power of words to transform lives, communities, and the world. From youth-focused writing programs and residency programs to publications and award programs, Amazon Literary Partnership strives to help writers throughout their writing careers. We support organizations that amplify often overlooked and underrepresented writers, and connect them with their readers.
In addition to grants awarded directly by Amazon Literary Partnership, we also partner with the Academy of American Poets and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) to award additional grants through a Poetry Fund and a Literary Magazine Fund. This year, each fund is awarding more than 15 grants.
For more than a decade, Amazon Literary Partnership has funded the National Book Foundation’s Five Under 35 program. Pictured here are the 2024 National Book Foundation Five Under 35 Honorees (from left to right): Zain Khalid, Antonia Angress, Maya Binyam, Tyriek White, and Jenny Tinghui Zhang. Photo by Jasmina TomicThe 2024 grantees are listed below. Here are a few highlights:
- Grant recipients represent more than 25 states, from Vermont to Hawaii, Texas to Oregon. This year’s grants will support more than 30 literary magazines and nonprofit small presses; 18 poetry organizations; more than 10 workshop/writing centers; more than 10 event-driven organizations; more than five residency programs; and more than five organizations exclusively focused on serving young writers.
- For more than a decade, Amazon Literary Partnership has funded the National Book Foundation (NBF)’s Five Under 35 program and sponsored the National Book Awards. Executive Director Ruth Dickey said, "Amazon Literary Partnership's long-standing support of the National Book Foundation's Five Under 35 program enables NBF to amplify the voices of some of the most exciting new fiction writers working today. We're thrilled to have Amazon's help in introducing these writers to readers in every corner of the country."
- “MacDowell is deeply grateful to Amazon Literacy Partnership for funding a James Baldwin Fellowship,” said executive director of MacDowell, Chiwoniso Kaitano. “Honoring prolific writer and three-time MacDowell fellow James Baldwin whose writings on racial justice and social inequality inspired America’s consciousness, this fellowship will support a writer whose work carries on Baldwin’s legacy as an activist and artist.”
- Based in Utah, Torrey House Press will use its 2024 grant toward advancing the careers and amplifying the perspectives of Native American and Indigenous writers. “We're thrilled and grateful for your support,” said Will Neville-Rehbehn, co-executive director of Torrey House Press. “As a small, independent press heading into our biggest year ever, this award will help us maximize our impact and, in particular, continue to champion Indigenous writers in new and exciting ways.”
- In Texas, Amazon Literary Partnership 2024 grants will fund Writers in Schools, #TeenWriters Project, Torch Literary Arts, the literary magazines American Short Fiction and Strangers Guide, and the largest publisher of literature in translation in the U.S., Deep Vellum. Will Evans, publisher of Deep Vellum said, “We are so excited to receive support from Amazon Literary Partnership program to support Deep Vellum's mission to elevate underrepresented voices from around the world; this year's grant will support publication of and promotion of books by writers from our hometown of Dallas plus Kurdistan, France, Thailand, and Mexico, written in languages like Kurmanji, Thai, Arabic, and Zapotec.”
- Since 2007, Lambda Literary has hosted the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, offering sophisticated instruction in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young adult fiction, playwriting, speculative fiction, and screenwriting. The Amazon Literary Partnership grant will go toward the 2024 retreat, which features Rasheed Newson, Charlie Jane Anders, and Casey Plett as faculty. “Lambda Literary is grateful for Amazon's Literary Partnership Grant,” said Dolph Goldenburg, executive director, Lambda Literary. “This funding is essential to our ability to offer the 2024 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. The retreat offers an unparalleled opportunity for writers to find their communities while creating, learning, and experimenting in their craft, and we are excited that Amazon has returned as a partner again this year.”
- Amazon Literary Partnership has supported Girls Write Now for more than a decade, often providing funding for their annual anthology. Maya Nussbaum, founder and executive director shared, “Girls Write Now is thrilled to continue our partnership with Amazon in 2024. This year, Amazon's support will help us to enhance, extend, and enrich our services and audience significantly, and will create new opportunities for us to promote our annual community-produced anthology, achieve our mission to amplify diverse or overlooked voices, help writers tell their stories and find readers, and empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive.”
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2024 Amazon Literary Partnership Grantees
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2024 Amazon Literary Partnership Grantees
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2024 Poetry Fund Recipients
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2024 Literary Magazine Fund Recipients
2024 Amazon Literary Partnership Grantees
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- #TeenWritersProject, Texas*
- Academy of American Poets, New York
- Archipelago Books, New York
- Asian American Writers' Workshop, New York
- Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Virginia
- Beyond Baroque Foundation, California
- Bidoun Projects, New York
- Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc., New York
- Center for Black Literature, New York
- Center for the Art of Translation, California
- Chicago Humanities Festival, Illinois
- City of Asylum Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- CityLit Project, Maryland
- Clarion West, Washington
- Coffee House Press, Minnesota
- Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP), New York
- Community-Word Project, New York
- Deep Vellum Publishing, Inc., Texas
- Empowering Latino Futures, California
- Girls Write Now, New York
- Graywolf Press, Minnesota
- Hedgebrook, Washington
- Heyday, California
- Hub City Press, South Carolina
- Lambda Literary, New York
- Literary Arts, Oregon
- LitNet, New York
- Litquake Foundation, California
- Loft, Inc. (The Loft Literary Center), Minnesota
- Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc. (The Cabin), Idaho
- MacDowell, New York
- Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), New York*
- Narrative 4, Inc., California
- National Book Foundation, Inc, New York
- Nightboat Books, New York
- PEN America, New York
- Poets & Writers, Inc., New York
- Richard Hugo House (Hugo House), Washington
- Seattle Arts & Lectures, Washington
- Society of the Muse of the Southwest (aka SOMOS), New Mexico
- The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, Nevada
- The Corporation of Yaddo, New York
- The Hurston/Wright Foundation, District of Columbia
- The Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York DBA The Center for Fiction, New York
- The Porch Writers' Collective, Tennessee*
- Torch Literary Arts, Texas
- Torrey House Press, Utah
- Transit Books, California
- Traveling South Asian Literary Festival (TRASAL), dba JLF Seattle, Washington*
- Ucross Foundation, Wyoming
- Vermont Studio Center, Inc., Vermont*
- Washington Writers' Publishing House, District of Columbia
- Words Without Borders, New York
- WriteGirl, a project of Community Partners, California
- Writers in the Schools (WITS), Texas
2024 Poetry Fund Recipients
*denotes new recipients
Administered by the Academy of American Poets. Ashley M. Jones, served as panelists.
Ricardo Maldonado, executive director of the Academy of American Poets, said, “We’re grateful for the opportunity to continue championing the vital work of poetry organizations and presses in partnership with the Amazon Literary Partnership, uplifting underrepresented writers and communities of readers all over the nation through the Poetry Fund."
- Artes de Mexico en Utah, Utah*
- BOA Editions, Ltd., New York
- CantoMundo, Arizona
- Cave Canem Foundation Inc., New York
- Daily Poetry Association, Virginia
- DewMore Baltimore, Maryland
- Furious Flower Poetry Center, Virginia
- Get Lit – Words Ignite, California
- In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets, Wisconsin
- Massachusetts Poetry Outreach, Massachusetts
- Noemi Press, Arizona*
- Pongo Poetry Project, Washington
- Radical Reversal, New Jersey*
- The Watering Hole Poetry Organization, South Carolina*
- The Beloit Poetry Journal, Maine
- Undocupoets, New York
- Urban Word NYC, New York
- Woodland Pattern, Wisconsin
- Zephyr Press, Maine
2024 Literary Magazine Fund Recipients
*denotes new recipients
Administered by Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Tommye Blount, Kim Fu, and January O’Neil served as panelists.
“Literary magazines have always served as an important record and reflection of our country's literary landscape, and are so often the first place where countless writers connect with readers,” said CLMP Executive Director Mary Gannon. “CLMP is incredibly grateful to Amazon Literary Partnership for its ongoing support of these essential publishers through the Literary Magazine Fund.”
- A Public Space, New York
- African Voices Communications, New York
- Alaska Quarterly Review, Alaska
- American Short Fiction, Texas
- Bellevue Literary Review, New York *
- Callaloo Literary Journal, District of Columbia*
- Chicago Review, Illinois*
- Electric Literature, New York
- Hayden's Ferry Review, Arizona
- Khoreo magazine, New York *
- Lucky Jefferson, Illinois
- Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Hawaii
- Narrative Magazine, California
- One Story, New York
- Orion, Massachusetts
- SISTORIES, North Carolina*
- Stranger's Guide, Texas*
- The Common, Massachusetts
- The Paris Review Foundation, New York
- Triple Canopy, New York *
We are honored to support the literary community and look forward to providing grant funding in 2025.
