Lifecycle: { "status": "FY2026 cycle closed; award outcome not located", "edition": "FY2026 Prose", "cadence": "prose and poetry alternate annually", "launched": null, "duration": "grant period defined in award documents", "renewable": null, "dates": { "deadline": "2025-03-12" } } Funding and benefits: { "cash": { "amount": 50000, "currency": "USD", "scope": "up to per fellowship, contingent on appropriations" }, "total_pool": { "amount": 1750000, "currency": "USD", "scope": "planned: 35 awards × up to USD 50,000" }, "benefits": { "salary_or_stipend": "unrestricted creative-writing fellowship subject to federal terms", "tuition": null, "travel": null, "housing": null, "insurance": null, "research_budget": null, "in_kind": [] } } Eligibility and filters: { "citizenship": "US citizen or permanent resident under NEA literature rules", "residence": "United States eligibility context", "countries": [ "United States" ], "destination": "not residency-based", "age": null, "experience": "published prose writer meeting official publication thresholds", "education": "no degree requirement stated", "career_stage": "published writer", "fields": [ "fiction", "creative nonfiction" ], "route": "individual application", "nomination": false, "institution": null, "language": "eligible work in English or qualifying translation context under call", "location": "unrestricted creative work", "remote": true, "exclusions": [ "organizations", "applicants not meeting publication eligibility", "poetry in the prose cycle" ] } Application: { "opens": null, "deadline": "2025-03-12", "decision": null, "start": null, "end": null, "url": "https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/FY26%20CWF%20Prose_Grant%20Program%20Details_final_rev_2.4.2025.pdf", "materials": [ "Grants.gov submission", "NEA applicant portal materials", "writing sample", "publication eligibility evidence" ], "selection_stages": [ "administrative eligibility", "anonymous artistic review", "National Council/agency approval" ] } Past editions and people: { "people": { "leaders": [], "latest_recipients": [], "latest_edition": "FY2026", "past_recipients": [], "coverage": "FY2026 prose award results were not located in authoritative public results at research time" }, "history": { "editions": [ { "year": "FY2025 Poetry", "selected": 35, "amount_per_award_usd": 25000, "applications": "more than 2,000" }, { "year": "FY2026 Prose", "anticipated_selected": 35, "anticipated_applications": 2000, "stated_success_rate": "under 2%" } ], "statistics": [] } } Known evidence gaps: [ "FY2026 award outcome", "award start/end", "recipient roster" ] Source conflicts: [ "Initial program detail language was later clarified to 'up to USD 50,000' subject to appropriations" ]