Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2025 Literary Grants

Stuart Mitchell

Since 2009, Amazon Literary Partnership has provided more than $18 million in funding to local, regional, and national organizations across the country that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive. At Amazon, we believe in the power of words to transform lives, communities, and the world. We are honored to support these vital and vibrant organizations that support and champion writers.

This year, the Amazon Literary Partnership will provide $1 million in funding to 99 literary organizations across the country. From youth-focused writing programs to residency programs, publications and award programs, Amazon Literary Partnership strives to support writers throughout their writing careers. We support organizations that amplify and uplift often overlooked and underrepresented writers and connect writers with their readers. We know “it takes a village,” as the saying goes, for writers to work, publish, and share their words with readers.

As part of Amazon Literary Partnership’s grantmaking program, we are continuing our partnership with the Academy of American Poets on the Poetry Fund and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses on the Literary Magazine Fund, which are each awarding more than 15 grants this year.

From Alaska to Florida, Texas to Oregon, 2025 grant recipients represent more than 25 states. This year’s grants will support 35 literary magazines and nonprofit small presses, 18 poetry organizations, more than 10 workshop/writing centers, more than 10 event-driven organizations, 5 residency programs, and 8 organizations exclusively focused on serving young writers. See below for the full list of 2025 grantees.

2025 Highlights

  • For more than a decade, the Amazon Literary Partnership has funded the National Book Foundation’s Five Under 35 program and sponsored the National Book Awards. “The debut writers honored by the National Book Foundation’s Five Under 35 program are helping to shape contemporary fiction—we’re grateful to Amazon for its longstanding support of this program, amplifying these critical new voices and introducing them to readers across the country.”—Ruth Dickey, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.
  • In New York City, Amazon Literary Partnership supports a wide variety of organizations including Electric Literature and One Story from the Literary Magazine Fund, the Poetry Society of America and Urban Word from the Poetry Fund, as well as the Brooklyn Book Festival, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Poets & Writers, and The Center for Fiction. “The Center for Fiction is proud to be a 2025 Amazon Literary Partnership grantee. This award will provide essential support for our Emerging Writer Fellowship, which offers grants, editorial mentorship, professional growth opportunities, and more to early-career, New York City-based artists at a critical moment in their development as fiction writers. Even after their Fellowships are complete, alumni remain a vital part of our community, launching their debuts on The Center’s stage and offering support to the next generation of readers and writers. Our Fellows have gone on to publish over 60 books and received prestigious honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Whiting Award, the NAACP Image Award, the Gotham Prize, and the National Book Foundation’s Five Under 35. We are deeply grateful for the Partnership’s investment in the future of fiction and in the voices that will shape it.”—Lydah DeBin, Executive Director, The Center for Fiction
  • Amazon Literary Partnership continues to support organizations focused on serving young writers. This year, we’re supporting #Teen Writers Project, 826 Valencia and New York, Community-Word Project, Get Lit-Words Ignite, Girls Write Now, WriteGirl, Writers in the Schools, and Shout Mouse Press, which is devoted to publishing young writers. “This grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership helps us equip immigrant youth—many of whom never imagined they’d become published authors—with the support and platform to write children’s books inspired by their lived experiences through our Beyond Borders series. It’s an investment not just in their stories, but in their growth as artists, leaders, and changemakers.”—Kathy Crutcher, Founder and Executive Director of Shout Mouse Press
  • Since 2007, Lambda Literary has hosted the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, offering sophisticated instruction in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young adult fiction, playwriting, speculative fiction, and screenwriting. Amazon Literary Partnership’s 2025 grant will go toward the 2025 retreat. “Lambda Literary is so very excited to continue growing and supporting LGBTQ+ authors and readers. Our community knows the importance of seeing our stories told by us and we are so thankful for the opportunity to flourish!”—Jozie “J. Clapp” Clapp, Lambda Literary Executive Director.
  • In the Pacific Northwest, Amazon Literary Partnership 2025 grants will support Hedgebrook, Literary Arts, Poetry Northwest, Seattle Arts & Lectures, among others. “We are proud that Seattle Arts & Lectures is part of the community of organizations supported by the Amazon Literary Partnership. With Amazon’s support, we will be able to connect authors like Arundhati Roy, James McBride, and Tommy Orange with SAL audience members. Amazon Literary Partnership’s contribution will also help over 6,000 K-12 Public School students experience our Writers in the Schools program and discover their own creative voices!”—Betsey Brock, Development Director, Seattle Arts & Lectures
  • Amazon Literary Partnership will support non-profit publishers like Graywolf Press, Heyday, Hub City Press, Torrey House Press, as well as those that focus on translation like Deep Vellum and Archipelago Books. “We’re so grateful to the Amazon Literary Partnership; their grants have allowed us to bring out stunning works of fiction, poetry, and children’s literature from Kashmir, Colombia, Argentina, Mozambique, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil, Iran, France, and elsewhere.”—Emma Raddatz, Archipelago Books
  • The Miami Book Fair joins 11 other first-time grantees like Arizona Humanities, Griot & Grey Owl, Inlandia Institute, Poetry Society of America, Slant’d, South Arts, and more. “We are deeply grateful to the Amazon Literary Partnership for their generous grant in support of our Emerging Writer Fellowships program. This vital funding helps us nurture new voices, provide crucial mentorship, and ensure that three promising, unpublished writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry have the support they need to tell their stories and shape the literary landscape with their works.”—Lissette Mendez, Executive Director, Miami Book Fair

2025 Amazon Literary Partnership Grantees

(*denotes new recipients for 2025)

2025 Literary Magazine Fund Recipients
Administered by Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Victoria Blanco, Garrard Conley, and Taylor Johnson served as panelists.

“CLMP is incredibly honored to champion the vital work of literary magazines through the Literary Magazine Fund,” said Marry Gannon, Executive Director of CLMP. “We are so grateful to Amazon Literary Partnership for its continued support of this singular opportunity.”

2025 Poetry Fund Recipients
Administered by the Academy of American Poets. Glenis Redmond, Bernard Schwartz, and Jessica Strand served as panelists.

“We’re grateful to Amazon Literary Partnership for their commitment to champion the vital work of poetry organizations and presses,” said Ricardo Maldonado, President and Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets. “This fund is an investment in the limitless possibility of poetry to spark new voices and urgent conversations—voices that reflect the full, complex spectrum of who we are, and conversations that challenge and connect us, affirming what we have long known: that poetry is not just alive, but essential, thriving as a space for innovation and collective belonging.”

(c) and by Al Woodworth, Senior Manager, Amazon Literary Partnership and originally posted here, 

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