At least 38 publishers and a number of literary organizations have had grants from the National Endowment for the Arts terminated or rescinded, while four literary arts staffers at the NEA have been let go. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island has denied a motion to preliminarily enjoin the National Endowment for the Arts from prohibiting grant recipients from using grant funding to promote “gender ideology.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
On April 2, a number of letters from the National Endowment for the Humanities were sent to arts and culture organizations across the country ending their previously awarded grants. Just days before, a report from the NEA found that the arts and cultural sector contributed $1.2 trillion to US... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
An executive order to freeze all federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance has been halted for now, but the Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Arts, and other agencies are preparing for potential cuts to their funding. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
“Words and Bullets” is a project launched by the Ukrainian independent publisher Chytomo and PEN Ukraine with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). It is a series of interviews with authors and journalists who became soldiers or volunteers following the Russian invasion of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-11-07 09:53:45 UTC ]
The National Endowment for the Arts is now accepting applications for $135 million in grants tied to the American Rescue Program established by Congress in March. Grants start at $50,000 and the deadlines range between the end of July and late September. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
The American Rescue Plan includes $135 million in new funding for the National Endowment for the Arts to help arts organizations hard hit by the pandemic. Of the funding, 60% will be administered directly by the National Endowment for the Arts, with 40% channeled through state and regional... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The August 2020 publication of Margot Livesey’s The Boy in the Field comes 30 years after her first novel, Homework. In that time Livesey has earned a wide range of honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment from the arts, a New York Times bestseller (The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-10 08:48:39 UTC ]
The National Endowment for the Arts announced $84 million in grants for 1,144 projects, including 62 for literary arts organizations, worth a total of $1.4 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
The National Endowment for the Arts is now taking applications for $75 million in grants to nonprofit arts organizations to combat job losses related to Covid-19. Grants are fixed at $50,000 for individual nonprofits. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
A new report from the National Endowment for the Arts tracking American reading habits in 2017 revealed that more than half of all U.S. adults, 55%, or 132 million people, did some form of book-reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
In what has become an annual rite under the Trump administration, the president’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced its first round of grants for the fiscal year 2019, issuing more than $27 million in the form of nearly 1,150 grants and 35 Creative Writing Fellowships in poetry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced its latest slew of Big Read grants, issuing more than $1 million in the form of 79 grants to organizations to host book-related projects from September 2018-June 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jane Chu will step down as chair of the National Endowment for Arts when her four-year term expires on June 4, 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
William D. Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has resigned from his post shortly ahead of news that the White House plans its "orderly closure". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Congressional leaders have rejected the Trump administration's proposal to eliminate money for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, according to US news reports. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poets and activists have organized a vigil and reading protesting President Donald J. Trump's proposed budget cuts to, or elimination of, the National Endowment of the Arts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the recipients of its Creative Writing Fellowships for fiscal year 2017, as well as its grants to nonprofit organizations for literary publishing projects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced $79 million in grants for 290 humanities projects and programs across the United States, including more than $4 million to book-related projects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]