With seed money from Agnes Gund’s Art for Change fund, a new fellowship positions the written word as an important way to help tackle issues related to mass incarceration.
Read MoreExperimental poets have a friend in the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, which announced three new poetry grants totalling $120,000.
Read MoreWith public funding for the arts under fire, some foundations are keen to make a case for the arts as a shared value across the entire population and not a privilege of coastal elites.
Read MoreWhile many arts funders support mid-career artists of all stripes, it's relatively rare to come across a prize recognizing older creative writers precisely because they haven't yet published a book.
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The Bancroft Prize was established in 1948 and is awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University .We dig into the $10,000 prize and take a look at this year's winners.
Read MoreYet another generous literary prize, recently renamed after New York-based arts patrons, recognizes non-fiction works of American history.
Read MoreWith cost-conscious outlets devoting less space to "serious" art criticism, the niche field of art writing gets a critical boost from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation.
Read MoreA grantmaker expands the nominee pool of a major writing award, creating a minor buzz and leveraging subsequent exposure to augment its grantmaking activities.
Read MoreArmed with a $1 million endowment from the Destina Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts names the recipient of a $40,000 prize honoring artist and poet Dorothea Tanning.
Read MoreIn an era where the nouveau rich and living donors are everywhere, a big bequest for literature to top New York cultural institutions stands out.
Read MoreContemporary art's surging popularity has lifted many boats. One unexpected beneficiary? Arts writers, who have an ally in an increasingly generous grants program.
Read MoreGrant dollars are backing different strategies to curb skyrocketing deaths from drug overdoses. But here's an angle in the opioid fight we haven't seen before: supporting poetry.
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