Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award 2025 (up to $12,500) – YOA

Deadline: February 19, 2025

Applications are open for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award 2025. The Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award is a grant of $12,500 to help the work of a promising early-profession nonfiction author on a narrative that uncovers truths in regards to the human situation.

Offered for the primary time in 2015, the Award has been endowed by people and organizations touched by the life and work of Matthew Power, a large-roving and award-successful journalist who sought to reside and share the expertise of the people and locations on which he was reporting. Power, a longtime good friend of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, died in March 2014, whereas on task in Uganda.

The award proceeds from the popularity that many essential tales want to be reported from afar, and that publications don’t all the time have the assets to ship a author the place the story is. The cash needn’t be used solely for journey, however we anticipate that the majority profitable functions will embrace such bills.

Award

The financial award might be distributed within the following manner:

• $6,000 upon announcement of the successful proposal; $3,000 upon proof of considerable progress (often a primary draft); and $3,500 upon completion and acceptance by the Award committee.

Eligibility

• Open to anybody age 21 and older. The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute encourages functions from early-profession, nonfiction writers whose work will perpetuate the legacy of Matthew Power.
• There are not any citizenship nor residency necessities.
• Ineligible to apply are NYU associates, NYU graduates with levels dated inside 2 years of the submission deadline, and journalists holding workers positions at established media retailers which are able to fund such initiatives on their very own.

Application

The deadline to apply is February 19, 2025 at 11:59pm EST. Late functions won’t be thought-about.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.