State Grants To search through the listings for a particular word, click Find on your browser's toolbar. Manuscripts for the 1998 awards, which will be given in fiction, should be submitted by September 11.
Entries written in Spanish are eligible.
Call or write for an application and complete guidelines. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, in cooperation with The Writers Center in Bethesda, is sponsoring its second annual short story contest. Residents of the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia may send unpublished short stories of 3,000 words or less. Write for complete guidelines. Fellowships are awarded biennially to poets, fiction, and nonfiction writers who have been state residents for one year prior to application and are not currently enrolled in a degree program.