Deadline: May 18, 2025

Amazon Literary Partnership seeks to fund organizations working to champion diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented authors and storytellers. Their 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. In 2024, they provided nearly $1 million in grant funding to 93 literary organizations across the country.

Since day one, Amazon has helped writers tell their stories and find readers, and since 2009, Amazon Literary Partnership has provided grant funding with the aim of empowering writers, helping them create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive.  They provide grant funding to innovative groups that amplify diverse voices and strive not only for a lasting impact on writers’ lives but on the broader literary and publishing communities.

Grants

• Grants range from $5,000 to $20,000.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be a registered nonprofit organization in the U.S., whose core mission is to develop emerging writers, support diversity, celebrate storytelling, and/or build authors’ careers.
• Organizations should be structurally and financially sound; display energy, passion, and reach; have an online presence, and an enthusiastic membership or readership.
• They rarely support school-affiliated programs (K-12, MFAs).

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