The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship Grant

The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: One Story Inc
Amount: US $2,000
Last Updated: September 07, 2025

Summary

The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship, awarded by One Story, Inc., supports early-career fiction writers who have yet to publish a book and are not enrolled in advanced writing programs. This year-long mentorship includes access to online classes, a $2,000 stipend, and a full manuscript review. The fellowship aims to uplift marginalized voices and is open to individuals aged 21 and over, including international applicants.

Overview

One Story One Story, Inc. celebrates contemporary literary short stories and cultivates and mentors the authors who write them. The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship Each year, together with the Talve-Goodman Family, One Story awards one writer the Adina Talve Goodman Fellowship. Honoring the memory of author and former One Story Managing Editor Adina Talve-Goodman, this educational fellowship offers a year-long mentorship on the craft of fiction writing with One Story magazine. Our hope is to give a writer outside of the fold a significant boost in their career. The Fellow Receives: Access to One Story online classes.Admission to One Story’s Writing Circle.Stipend ($2,000) and free admission to One Story’s week-long summer writers’ conference, which includes craft lectures, an intensive fiction workshop, and panels with literary agents and publishers.A full manuscript review and consultation with One Story Executive Editor Hannah Tinti (story collection or novel in progress up to 150 pages/35,000 words).

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. This fellowship calls for an early-career writer of fiction who has not yet published a book and is not currently nor has ever been enrolled in an advanced degree program (such as an MA or MFA) in Creative Writing, English, or Literature, and has no plans to attend one in the next calendar year. We are seeking writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. This means writing that centers, celebrates, or reclaims being marginalized through the lens of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, class, religion, illness, disability, trauma, migration, displacement, dispossession, or imprisonment. All applicants must be at least 21 years of age as of January 1st of the next calendar year.This fellowship is open to applicants outside the United States

Ineligibility

If you have previously published a work of fiction, memoir, non-fiction book, poetry book, textbook, edited an anthology, or published as a translator in book form, you are not eligible.This includes books published by large and small presses, books published electronically, and self-published books.If you get an agent or a book contract after you apply, you must immediately withdraw your application.If you have advanced degrees in Creative Writing, Dramatic Writing, Screenwriting, Playwriting, English, or Literature (in any language) you are ineligible to apply. We are seeking applicants who have never been enrolled in these programs. If you’ve been enrolled, you are ineligible for the fellowship.To keep the judgment of this fellowship fair and impartial, we are excluding anyone who has worked or volunteered for One Story in the past or present.