Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Program Grant

Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Program Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: American Comparative Literature Association
Amount: US $3,500
Last Updated: October 03, 2025

Summary

The Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Program, offered by the American Comparative Literature Association, supports ACLA-member authors in publishing their first books. Annually, up to $10,500 is allocated for subventions, with a maximum of three awards of $3,500 each. This competitive program prioritizes first-time authors and aims to facilitate the publication process, ensuring that promising works reach the academic community.

Overview

About The American Comparative Literature Association, founded in 1960, is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself. In its largest sense, comparative literature promotes the study of intercultural relations that cross national boundaries, multicultural relations within a particular society, and the interactions between literature and other forms of human activity, including the arts, the sciences, philosophy, and cultural artifacts of all kinds. The members of the ACLA are thus joined not by a national, linguistic, or methodological investment held in common, but by the shared condition of teaching and writing across nations, languages, and cultures--and hence by their lively interest in comparison as both a theoretical and a practical matter. Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Program The ACLA Executive Board is pleased to continue with our Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Program. The ACLA will award up to $10,500 in subventions each year with up to three awards of $3,500 each.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. This program is designed for ACLA-member authors who require subventions to ensure publication of their first books. These subventions will be awarded on a competitive basis to first-time book authors.Subventions will be paid directly to the press. You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member.