Since its creation 50 years ago, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship has become one of the leading residency programs in the world. Each year, the Work Center offers 20 seven-month residencies to a juried group of emerging visual artists, fiction writers, and poets. Each Fellow receives an apartment, a studio (for visual artists), and a monthly stipend of $1,250 plus an exit stipend of $1,000. Residencies run from October 1 through April 30. During this time, Fellows have the opportunity to pursue their work independently in a diverse and supportive community of peers. The Fine Arts Work Center has hosted more than 1,000 Fellows since 1968, nurturing an accomplished and far-reaching alumni network. The impact of the experience is best illustrated by the extensive list of awards Fellows have gone on to win, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, Prix de Rome, Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Fellowship applications for 2025-2026 are now open.

The 2025-2026 Writing Fellowship deadline is December 16, 2024. The 2025-2026 Visual Arts Fellowship deadline is February 3, 2025.

Click here to apply for the 2025-2026 Visual Arts Fellowship application.

Click here to apply for the 2025-2026 Writing Fellowship application.

For more information about the Fellowship program, click here.

For FAQs click here.

The Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship

Generous support from The Rona Jaffe Foundation has established the Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center. This fellowship will be awarded each year, beginning in 2022-23, to an emerging woman writer of exceptional promise. The fellowship fully funds the 7-month residency and includes a $2,500 prize to help defray the cost of travel and living expenses.

Rona Jaffe Foundation fellows must be permanent residents of the U.S. and may not have published their first book in the standard edition. All eligible candidates will be automatically considered for this fellowship by the Fine Arts Work Center.

There is no separate application process for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship.

Fellowship Access Fund

The Fine Arts Work Center has established a Fellowship Access Fund, to increase access to the 7-month Fellowship opportunity for select candidates with particular financial needs.

This Fund supports extraordinary expenses that may prevent a selected candidate from accepting the Fellowship or from fully participating during the 7-month period. One-time awards will be limited, and range from $500 to $2,500.

Allocations are made following review by a committee made up of FAWC leadership, which includes staff, Trustees, and Fellowship Committee members, and will be paid upon selection.

There is no separate application process for the Fellowship Access Fund.

Website link: https://fawc.org/apply/