Amazon Literary Partnership Grant: US

Amazon Literary Partnership Grant: US

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Amazon, Inc.
Amount: US $5,000 - US $20,000
Last Updated: March 24, 2026

Summary

The Amazon Literary Partnership Grant supports nonprofit organizations in the U.S. that empower diverse and marginalized writers. Since 2009, it has provided over $17 million to various literary groups, fostering emerging talent across genres. Eligible organizations must focus on developing writers, celebrating storytelling, and connecting them with audiences. By funding innovative initiatives, Amazon helps ensure that underrepresented voices are heard in the literary community, contributing to a rich and diverse narrative landscape.

Overview

Amazon Literary Partnership Grant: US From the time we opened our virtual doors, Amazon has helped writers tell their stories and find readers. Since 2009, Amazon Literary Partnership has provided more than $17 million in funding to local, regional, and national organizations across the country that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive in order to reach their audiences. Amazon Literary Partnership seeks to fund organizations working to champion diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented authors and storytellers. From New Orleans to Houston, Minneapolis to Salt Lake City, our previous grant recipients represent both local and national institutions of all sizes and include nonprofit writing centers, residencies, fellowships, after-school classes, literary magazines, national organizations supporting storytelling and free speech, and internationally acclaimed publishers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Writers supported by these organizations have become bestselling authors and literary award winners. Grants are given to innovative groups whose core mission is to support diverse, underserved, and marginalized writers, develop emerging writers and/or build the careers of working writers to connect them with readers. We help writers across all genres and formats, fiction and nonfiction, including poetry and translation.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. To be eligible, the applicant must be nonprofit organization registered in the United States. The applicant organization’s primary purpose must be to develop emerging writers, support diversity, celebrate storytelling, and help authors advance their careers. To be considered for the funding, applicants should be structurally and financially sound; display energy, passion, and reach; have an online presence and an enthusiastic membership or readership. We rarely support school-affiliated programs (K-12, MFAs).Amazon Literary Partnership provides grants to nonprofit literary organizations on an annual basis.