FSG Writer’s Fellowship 2026 for Emerging Writers ($15,000 in funding) – YOA

Deadline: July 18, 2025

Applications are open for the FSG Writer’s Fellowship 2026. First launched in 2021, the FSG Writer’s Fellowship is an annual program designed to present an rising author from an underrepresented neighborhood extra sources to construct a life round writing—together with $15,000 in funding, editorial steerage, and help from the FSG neighborhood. The fellowship celebrates the spirit of the FSG record and its dedication to invention, curiosity, and increasing the bounds of literature.

Benefits

• $15,000 paid over two installments: half paid firstly of the Fellowship program, half paid in June 2026

Plus:

• Mentorship with an FSG home creator
• Guidance from two in-house editors, who will provide line and structural suggestions on the guy’s work all year long
• Opportunities for meet-and-greets with representatives from different departments – together with Publicity/Marketing, Art, Subsidiary Rights, and Managing Editorial – to debate their areas of experience, reply questions, and assist construct a broader understanding of the publishing enterprise
• Support with networking past FSG

Eligibility

• The applicant should not have revealed a e-book-size work in any style, have a e-book beneath contract, or be negotiating a contract both in the United States or overseas by the point the fellowship begins. Having revealed brief poetry chapbooks is not going to exclude an applicant from eligibility;
• Applicants should submit in just one class (fiction, nonfiction, or poetry);
• The applicant should be a U.S. Permanent Resident (inexperienced card) or U.S. Citizen;
• There are not any expertise, diploma credentials, or location necessities. This fellowship will happen remotely;
• The applicant needs to be writing for an grownup viewers in the English language;
• The applicant should be over 18 years of age;
• The applicant can’t be an worker or member of the family of an worker of FSG or every other Macmillan affiliate;
• The applicant might not use generative AI or work from AI-generated textual content for their samples and statements.

Application

Applicants should submit:

• A pattern of labor—fiction, nonfiction, or poetry—geared toward an grownup viewers
  • For fiction and nonfiction, the pattern should be between forty and fifty double spaced pages
  • For poetry, the pattern should be eight to 12 pages
  • The pattern can embrace beforehand revealed work and doesn’t must be from a single part of the work
• A Statement of Purpose of not more than 500 phrases

Note: The applicant’s title and get in touch with info should not be wherever on the writing pattern or the Statement of Purpose—this consists of inside the uploaded file title.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to FSG Writer Fellowship.