FAQ: Amazon Literary Partnership grant applications 2025

The Amazon Literary Partnership grant applications for 2025 are now open. Amazon invites nonprofit literary organizations to apply now through May 18, 2025, with grants being announced in June 2025. Apply now.

What is the Amazon Literary Partnership?

Amazon Literary Partnership seeks to fund organizations working to champion diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented authors and storytellers. Our previous grant recipients represent both local and national institutions of all sizes and include nonprofit writing centers, residencies, fellowships, after-school classes, literary magazines, national organizations supporting storytelling and free speech, and internationally acclaimed publishers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In 2024, we provided nearly $1 million in grant funding to 93 literary organizations across the country. Learn more about our 2024 grant recipients.

Since day one, Amazon has helped writers tell their stories and find readers, and since 2009, Amazon Literary Partnership has provided grant funding with the aim of empowering writers, helping them create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive.

What does the Amazon Literary Partnership do?

Since 2009, the Amazon Literary Partnership has provided $17 million in grants to more than 150 U.S. organizations, assisting many thousands of writers. Amazon has supported the National Book Foundation, Cave Canem, Girls Write Now, Hurston Wright Foundation, Poets & Writers, Words Without Borders, and more. We support literary centers, writing workshops, residencies, fellowships, literary magazines, independent publishers, poetry, and translation programs. Writers supported by these organizations have become bestselling authors and literary award winners.

Grants are given to innovative, energetic groups whose core mission is to support diverse, underserved and marginalized writers, develop emerging writers and/or build the careers of working writers to connect them with readers. We help writers across all genres and formats, fiction and nonfiction, including poetry and translation.

Who works with the Amazon Literary Partnership?

Since 2019, Amazon has partnered with the nation’s largest membership-based nonprofit organization advocating for American poets and poetry, the Academy of American Poets, on our Poetry Fund. The Academy’s mission is to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. The Academy will convene a panel to review 2025 grant applications and disperse 10 to 15 grants for the Poetry Fund in 2025.

Amazon has also partnered with the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) for the last seven years for our Literary Magazine Fund. The aim of CLMP is to ensure a diverse and vibrant literary landscape by increasing the organizational capacity of small literary publishers, advocating on their behalf, and working to bring multiple literary stakeholder communities together. Like the Poetry Fund, the Literary Magazine Fund will administer 10 to 15 grants in 2025, selected by a panel convened by CLMP.

How do the grants work and how can I apply?

Amazon Literary Partnership provides grants to nonprofit literary organizations on an annual basis. Applications for 2025 grants, including the Poetry Fund and Literary Magazine Fund, are being accepted now through May 18, 2025. Grant recipients will be announced in June 2025. Grants typically range from $5,000 to $20,000.

Due to the volume of requests, we are unable to respond personally to each inquiry, nor can we provide guidance on applications. See the online application.

Who is eligible?

Applicants must be a registered nonprofit organization in the U.S., whose core mission is to develop emerging writers, support diversity, celebrate storytelling, and/or build authors’ careers. Organizations should be structurally and financially sound; display energy, passion, and reach; have an online presence and an enthusiastic membership or readership. We rarely support school-affiliated programs (K-12, MFAs).