Overview
Scholarship type
Merit based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
Up to USD ($) 2,000
Scholarship coverage
- other
- travel expenses
- application
- accommodation
Description
Contemporary literature and AWP have benefited from the efforts of many teachers, writers, editors, and administrators who have done their utmost to help the next generation of writers find their way as artists and as literary professionals.
In bestowing the annual George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature, AWP recognizes a few of those individuals who have made notable donations of care, time, labor, and money to support writers and their literary accomplishments.
Benefits
The award includes a $2,000 honorarium, in addition to travel, accommodations, and registration to attend AWP's annual conference, where the award is publicly announced and conferred.
Eligibility
The award will be given to a living individual who has demonstrated exceptional generosity and Service to writers by excellent work in one or more of the following activities:
- Teaching creative writing and literature.
- Serving as a mentor, supporter, or guide to writers
- Publishing or editing literature, especially works by emerging talents.
- Building new resources that benefit writers (reading series, presses, awards, endowments, fellowships, stipends, programs, community centers, foundations, etc.).
- Administering to programs or institutions that benefit writers or that expand audiences for contemporary authors.
- Working generally to make North America a more supportive place for contemporary literature and its makers.
To receive the award, the recipient must be willing to travel to the AWP Annual Conference.
- Any living individual who meets the above criteria may be nominated for the award except for the following: members of the current AWP Board of Directors or AWP staff; family members of the AWP Board of Directors or AWP staff; and former AWP board members or AWP staff who served AWP within the last four years.
- A former board member or staff member of AWP may be nominated for the award only after at least four years have lapsed between the deadline for nominations and his or her last official day of service to AWP. Previous recipients of the award may not be nominated or considered. Self-nominations will not be considered.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Creative Writing
Locations
United States
Nationality
226 nationalities
Study experience required
High school
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
31 Oct 2026
Letters of nomination are accepted each year between September 1 and October 31 and should be submitted via AWP’s Submittable portal.