Emergency Fund for Literary Organizations and Publishers

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July 17, 2020

Academy of American Poets, Community of Literary Magazines & Presses, and National Book Foundation Join Forces to Provide $3.5 Million in Emergency Funds for Literary Organizations and Publishers.

Three national nonprofit literary arts organizations—the Academy of American Poets, Community of Literary Magazine and Presses (CLMP), and the National Book Foundation—have come together in a historic collaboration to establish The Literary Arts Emergency Fund, which will provide $3.5 million to the literary arts, a field that has been disastrously impacted by COVID-19. Regrants from this fund, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will be distributed by September 15, 2020. Applications are due by August 7th.

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