Creative Capital 2008–09 / Grants in Innovative Literature / Call for Applicants 

In Innovative Literature we seek work by writers who are not only highly accomplished stylists, but who also demonstrate an adventurous spirit when it comes to issues of form and/or content. We are interested in original writing that pushes literature in new and surprising directions. Playwrights should apply in the Performing Arts category.

Please note that “professional experience” in the Innovative Literature category is defined as publication in five or more literary journals, magazines, or anthologies for prose writers and ten or more for poets, or publication of at least one book-length work.

Creative Capital will support approximately 40 projects across the three disciplines under review at initial levels of $10,000 each. Including follow-up monetary support, a project may receive as much as $50,000 throughout the life cycle of the grant, with the average amount closer to $35,000. This is in addition to non-monetary services with an average value of $26,000 per grantee, bringing the potential support per project up to $76,000.

For more information, visit: http://creative-capital.org/application/



Deadline: March, 4, 2008
Organization: Creative Capital
65 Bleecker Street
Seventh Floor
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 598-9900
Website: www.creative-capital.org