Lannan Literary Grants
Grant-making activities in the Literary Program aim to increase public appreciation, understanding, and support for contemporary literature in the English language.
Since the grant making program was established in 1987, the foundation has supported more than 150 nonprofit organizations nationwide. Primarily, the program has supported publishers and distributors, literary journals, residency programs, educational programs, and literary centers. Over the years the focus of the program has expanded considerably and for a full understanding of the funding interests of the program at this time, we have listed current grants in the Literary program below:
Literary Grants
This small Brooklyn-based press is devoted to literature in translation. Committed to bringing to American audiences the best of contemporary and classic literature from around the world, they have titles from France, Spain, China, Palestine, Germany, Japan, Eastern Europe and the Middle East amongst others. Grant funds were awarded to publish and promote new books in translation.
For many years, Lannan has supported Michael Silverblatt’s nationally syndicated literary interview program, Bookworm. The program is carried over 150 public radio stations nationwide and our website has an ever-expanding archive of 
Cave Canem is committed to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Programs include a summer retreat, regional workshops, a first book prize, annual anthologies, readings and other events. They are a national community of emerging and established poets, a family of writers who create, publish, perform, teach, study poetry, and support each others’ work. This grant is for operational support.
The city of Santa Fe instituted the position of Poet Laureate in 2006 with private funding and the first poet to hold the two-year position was Arthur Sze. This grant will support the next poet to fill the position.
Lannan has a long relationship with this noted small press devoted exclusively to the publication of poetry. Multi-year grants have been awarded for publications in the Lannan Selections series, operational and development support, and technical organizational assistance.
This grant supports a poetry series from September through May of each year that brings noted poets to Washington, DC to read from and discuss their work and lead seminars and writing workshops.
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Serving Native students from across the country, the Institute is a noted college based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. An initial grant in 2005 supported the creation of a residence program for poets and writers, and the current grant offers ongoing support for the program.
This public radio station based in Santa Fe rebroadcasts all Lannan Readings & Conversations events and weekly 
The National Poetry Series has, since 1978, sponsored the publication of five books of poetry each year. The manuscripts, solicited through an annual open competition, are selected by poets of national stature and published by a distingusihed group of trade, university, and small presses.
This grant helps support the PEN Writers’ Fund and the Fund for Writers & Editors with AIDS. The Funds offer small grants to professional writers and editors facing unforseen and financially debilitating crises.
Trinity University Press will be publishing a book, Chinese Writers on Writing, edited by poet Arthur Sze. The book will feature essays with accompanying poems, prose, and excerpts of interviews by 39 leading Chinese writers from 1917 to the present. This grant will cover translation and author fees.
This grant supports creative writing workshops in Arizona prisons. The all-volunteer program was begun nearly 30 years ago by poet and University of Arizona professor, Richard Shelton, and is still overseen by him.
This grant supports the website Literary Areas
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