National Poetry Series
contestAn annual open-call poetry manuscript competition, founded in 1978, that selects five winning manuscripts for publication by participating trade and university presses, each judged by a different established poet.
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NEA Creative Writing Fellowships
grant$25,000 federal fellowships; poetry and prose alternate years. The most significant no-strings government grant for U.S. poets.
NYU Creative Writing Program
mfa programNYU's MFA program in Greenwich Village, built around a public reading series, the journal Washington Square Review, and a faculty and alumni list dense with major prizewinners.
Poetry Coalition Fellowships
fellowshipPaid, part-time fellowships placing early-career poets and arts administrators at member organizations of the Poetry Coalition network, coordinated by the Academy of American Poets; includes a $20,000 stipend plus health-care allowance.
Poets & Writers
toolThe field's institutional hub: databases of magazines, presses, agents, contests, and MFA programs.
Poets & Writers Grants & Awards Database
grantA free, continuously updated directory of vetted writing contests, grants, and awards across genres, filterable by fee, genre, and deadline, run by the nonprofit Poets & Writers.
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
fellowshipFive $27,000 fellowships from the Poetry Foundation for U.S. poets ages 21–31. Applications open each winter.
Stadler Fellowship
fellowshipBucknell's post-MFA fellowship providing a year of stipend, housing, mentorship, and hands-on arts-administration/editorial experience with West Branch and the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts.
Storyknife
residencyFully funded residencies for women writers in individual cabins on a retreat property overlooking Cook Inlet in Homer, Alaska.
Syracuse MFA
mfa programFully funded three-year MFA in fiction and poetry, known for a small, highly selective cohort and a faculty list that has included Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Mary Karr, and George Saunders.
Ucross
residencyFully funded residencies for writers, visual artists, composers, and choreographers on a 20,000-acre working cattle ranch in northern Wyoming, with private studios, chef-prepared meals, and a modest stipend.
UMass Amherst MFA
mfa programOne of the oldest MFA programs in the country: a three-year, funded MFA for poets and fiction writers in the Pioneer Valley, built around workshops and completion of a book-length manuscript.
University of Arkansas MFA
mfa programFour-year MFA in Fayetteville with deep poetry and translation tracks — one of the longest apprenticeships available.
University of Houston CWP
mfa programHouston's dual MFA/PhD Creative Writing Program, founded in 1979 by Donald Barthelme and Cynthia Macdonald, known for pairing rigorous literary study with a strong poetry workshop tradition.
Vanderbilt MFA
mfa programFully funded three-year MFA in Nashville admitting six poets and six fiction writers per year, for a total cohort of eighteen students.
Vermont Studio Center
residencyNonprofit artist and writer residency in Johnson, Vermont, founded in 1984, offering month-long (and shorter) studio residencies with visiting-writer programming and merit- and need-based fellowships.
Wallace Stegner Fellowship
fellowshipTwo fully funded years at Stanford with no degree requirement; five poets admitted annually. Applications open in the fall.
Walt Whitman Award
contestAcademy of American Poets first-book prize: $5,000, publication, and an all-expenses-paid residency.
Washington University in St. Louis MFA
mfa programFully funded two-year MFA program in creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis, housed in the English department; program page currently returns a 404, so verify current details via the university site.
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships
fellowshipNine-month post-graduate teaching fellowships at UW–Madison for poets and fiction writers who have not yet published a first book, run by the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing since 1986.