Category Archives: Scholarships/Fellowships

Mérida Fellowship Award accepting submissions

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U.S. Poets in Mexico will be holding its 4th Annual Poetry Conference on January 5-12, 2013 in Mérida, Yucatán.  The Mérida Fellowship Award Competition provides the winner with Conference registration fee and 7 nights lodging at Hotel Caribe in Mérida (value: $1,020).

To enter, submit 4 poems, no more than 6 pages, 12pt Times New Roman type (submissions will be read anonymously, previously published poem accepted), along with the entry Application and the $25 entry fee by check payable to U.S. Poets in Mexico, P.O. Box 4150, Grand Central Station, NY, NY 10163.

Entries must be received by August 31st, 2012. Recipient will be announced September 30, 2012. The Fellowship recipient will give a featured half-hour reading.

Find out more about the U.S. Poets in Mexico program, including registration and fees, by clicking here.

Kimiko Hahn will judge the 2013 Mérida Fellowship Award competition.  Hahn is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Toxic Flora (W.W. Norton, 2010), The Narrow Road to the Interior (2006); The Artist’s Daughter(2002); Mosquito and Ant (1999); Volatile(Hanging Loose Press, 1998); and The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1995), which received an American Book Award.  Other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award; also, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award, the Shelley Memorial Prize.  In October 2011, she received the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry for her poetry collection Toxic Flora, the highest literary honor for writers of Asian American descent.  Hahn received a bachelor’s degree in English and East Asian studies with a certificate in creative writing from the University of Iowa, and a master’s degree in Japanese literature from Columbia University.  She is a Distinguished Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing and Literary Translation program at CUNY’s Queens College, NY.

Kresge Foundation Fellowships

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Kresge Arts in Detroit

Every year the Kresge Foundation, via Kresge Arts in Detroit, award 18 fellows with $25,000. In 2010, awards will be given in literary arts.  An information session will be held January 13, 7PM at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Fellowship applications are due FEBRUARY 26TH.*Note: those currently seeking degrees of any kind during application period or period of fellowship will not be considered.

View Sarah Smarch’s post on the BathHouse site or the announcement on the Kresge Arts in Detroit site for more information.

PSA Annual Awards and Chapbook Fellowships

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PSA logoThe deadline for the Poetry Society of America (PSA)’s Annual Awards and Chapbook Fellowships is fast approaching. Postmark deadline is Tuesday, December 22nd.

The PSA’s Annual Awards are among the most prestigious in the country, and offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers. The awards recognize everything from a single poem to the highest honor, the Frost Medal, which celebrates lifetime achievement in poetry.

 Guidelines for entry can be viewed here.  (Note: you must be a member of PSA in order to enter their contests.)

Mérida Fellowship Award

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U.S. Poets in Mexico‘s first annual Mérida Fellowship Award is now accepting applications.

The Mérida Fellowship Award will be awarded to one American poet over 18 years of age (must be a U.S. citizen) and consists of full tuition for one week of all offered poetry workshops in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico for the January 2-9, 2010 session, a reading on the same night as one of the U.S. Poets in Mexico faculty members, lodging for the week, Spanish lessons, inclusion in the U.S. Poets In Mexico journal, pyramid and day trips (does not include airfare, or meals).  The winner will be announced on the Poets’ website and notified via email.

Submissions due by: November 1, 2009

Winner announced: November 15, 2009

To enter the contest: Send 4-6 poems, no more than 6 pages in total, 12 pt. Times New Roman type. Do not put your name or address on submitted poems.  Previously published poems will be accepted. Contest submissions will not be returned. Enclose your poems, a check for $25 (entry fee) and the Application.  NOTE: If you are only entering the Mérida Fellowship Award contest, please check the appropriate box on the Application so that you will not be asked for the registration and tuition fees).

Mail to:
U.S. Poets in Mexico
P.O. Box 4150
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163

See the workshop reading schedule here.

All applicants who are planning on attending the workshop program will also automatically be entered in the award competition.  See the Apply page for a repeat of the above entry requirements. 

Direct questions to: uspoetsinmexico@verizon.net

Scholarships for Student Activists

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Attention student activists! Since 1961 the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund has provided need-based scholarships to students at the college level who are involved in building movements for social and economic justice. Early recipients worked for civil rights, against McCarthyism, and for peace in Vietnam. Recent grantees have been active in the struggle against racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression; building the movement for economic justice; and creating peace through international anti-imperialist solidarity.

The Davis-Putter Fund has grants available for student activists who will be enrolled in school during the 2009-10 academic year. The application, instructions and information about the Fund and the students supported can be obtained at www.davisputter.org. Applications and the supporting documents — transcripts, a personal statement, two letters of recommendation, a photograph, Student Aid Report — must be postmarked not later than April 1.

Both undergraduates and students working towards graduate and professional degrees enrolled in accredited schools are eligible. Although citizenship is not a consideration, applicants must be participating in activities in the US and enroll in an accredited program in the US in order to qualify. Grants are for one year. Students may re-apply for subsequent years. The maximum grant is $8,000 and may be considerably smaller depending on the applicant’s circumstances and the funding available. All the funds come from individual donors, and there are 25-30 grants awarded each year. Those selected to receive a grant will be notified in July.