Creative Writing

The Fellowship--John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Deadline: 
September 19, 2013
NOTE UPDATED DEADLINE. See above link for application details.
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Often characterized as "midcareer" awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.

Fellowships are awarded through two annual competitions: one open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada, and the other open to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean.  Candidates must apply to the Guggenheim Foundation in order to be considered in either of these competitions.

The Foundation receives between 3,500 and 4,000 applications each year.  Although no one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition, there is no prescreening:  all applications are reviewed.  Approximately 200 Fellowships are awarded each year.

NEH/FPIRI Fellowship for Field-Based Research in Palestine

Deadline: 
January 6, 2014
Applicants must submit four hard-copy proposals and one email proposal (see application form for details). Must include contact info for three references.
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The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its first National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) competition for post-doctoral fellowships for research in Palestine.

Massachusetts Historical Society Long-Term Fellowships (NEH-funded)

Deadline: 
January 15, 2017
Proposals must explain project relevance to MHS collection; two letters of recommendation are also required.
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The Massachusetts Historical Society will award at least two long-term MHS-NEH fellowships for the academic year 2014-2015. The stipend, governed by an NEH formula, will be $4,200 per month for a minimum of four months and a maximum of 12 months. Applicants must specify the number of months for which they are applying. Tenure must be continuous. Within the constraints of the NEH's guidelines, the Society will supplement each stipend with a housing allowance of up to $500 per month plus an allowance for professional expenses. MHS-NEH fellowships are open to U.S.

University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Residential Fellowship

Deadline: 
January 15, 2017
Requires electronic submission plus two hard copies of materials (which must be RECEIVED by the deadline). Also requires three letters of recommendation, which must be received by 22 January.
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Faculty Residential Fellowships are opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work in the humanities. Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges or universities, or independent scholars and writers.

Projects may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients might eventually produce scholarly articles, a monograph on a specialized subject, a book on a broad topic, an archaeological site report, a translation, an edition, or other scholarly tools.

UChicago Arts Council Grants

Deadline: 
November 1, 2013
Proposals must be received by noon on date of deadline; late proposals will be held for next quarter's due date.
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UChicago Arts Grants

Awards: $1,500 to $7,500 

Fall Quarter Deadline: November 2, 2012

Winter Quarter Deadline: Friday, January 25, 2013

Spring Quarter Deadline: Friday, April 26, 2013

The Arts Council solicits original ideas for the creation and presentation of arts in all genres. Proposals are accepted only from university-based or -affiliated organizations or units: faculty, departments or centers, recognized student organizations (RSO), campus cultural institutions, and other organizations involved in campus life. 

Center for Disciplinary Innovation Seminar Proposals

Deadline: 
November 15, 2013
PROJECTED DEADLINE; will be updated when new announcement goes out from Franke. Please email proposals to Mai Vukcevich (mav@uchicago.edu).
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To: Interested faculty in the Humanities and related fields

Fr: James Chandler, Director, Center for Disciplinary Innovation
 
Re: Annual Call for CDI Seminar Proposals
      
The CDI invites proposals for courses from University of Chicago faculty for the 2013-14 academic year. With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CDI offers six team-taught courses each year at the graduate level with participating faculty from different disciplines. Each faculty member teaching in the CDI receives full credit for team-teaching. Additionally, the Mellon grant makes possible a $1500 stipend for each team to share for course-related purposes. For a comprehensive roster of our CDI course offerings and for background information on our consortium for disciplinary innovation with Berkeley, Cambridge, and Columbia, please see: http://franke.uchicago.edu/cdi.html.
 

NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants

Deadline: 
January 7, 2014
Requires submission through, and approval by, University Research Administration; must notify Grants team of intent to apply by early December at the latest--ideally earlier.
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Brief Summary

Scholarly Editions and Translations grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of a minimum of one year up to a maximum of three years.

Projects must be undertaken by a team of at least one editor or translator and one other staff member. Grants typically support editions and translations of significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible.

Applicants should demonstrate familiarity with the best practices recommended by the Association for Documentary Editing or the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions. Translation projects should also explain the approach adopted for the particular work to be translated. Editions and translations produced with NEH support contain scholarly and critical apparatus appropriate to the subject matter and format of the edition. This usually means introductions and annotations that provide essential information about the form, transmission, and historical and intellectual context of the texts and documents involved.

NEH Collaborative Research Grants

Deadline: 
December 5, 2013
Requires submission through, and approval by, University Research Administration; must notify Grants team of intent to apply by mid-November at the latest--ideally earlier.
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Brief Summary

Collaborative Research Grants support interpretive humanities research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of a minimum of one year up to a maximum of three years. Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; field work; applications of information technology; and technical support and services. All grantees are expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public audiences.

Eligible projects include

  • research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding of the humanities;
  • conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit scholarly research;
  • archaeological projects that include the interpretation and communication of results (projects may encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs); and
  • research that uses the knowledge and perspectives of the humanities and historical or philosophical methods to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.

NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grants

Deadline: 
January 23, 2013
Requires submission through, and approval by, University Research Administration; must notify Grants team of intent to apply by January 1st at the latest
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This program is designed to fund the implementation of innovative digital-humanities projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field. Such projects might enhance our understanding of central problems in the humanities, raise new questions in the humanities, or develop new digital applications and approaches for use in the humanities. The program can support innovative digital-humanities projects that address multiple audiences, including scholars, teachers, librarians, and the public. Applications from recipients of NEH’s Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants are welcome.

Unlike NEH’s start-up grant program, which emphasizes basic research, prototyping, experimentation, and potential impact, the Digital Humanities Implementation Grants program seeks to identify projects that have successfully completed their start-up phase and are well positioned to have a major impact.

New York Public Library Residential Fellowships at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

Deadline: 
September 26, 2014
Also possible to apply through the ACLS (deadline September 24th). Materials due by 5pm EST.
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Each year’s Fellows are chosen from a large field of applicants by a careful process of review and selection. Fellows from all over the United States and abroad work at the Center for a term that runs from September through May. The Selection Committee looks for diversity in gender, race, and age, seeking talented young writers and scholars as well as those with established reputations. The principal criteria for acceptance are the excellence of the applicant’s previous work and the significance of the new project’s need for sustained access to The New York Public Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences research collections.

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