Important Notes
- Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. or Canada at the time of application.
- Previous Guggenheim Fellowship recipients are not eligible to reapply.
- Fellowships do not support residencies, curriculum development, educational programs, websites, or blogs.
- These awards are for individuals only and are not available to organizations, institutions, or groups.
- Students (undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate) are not eligible.
- Projects for children or young readers, as well as genre work (e.g., mysteries, romance, fantasy), are not supported.
- Published works that are self-published or author-funded and works published by non-critically reviewed publishers are not suitable.
- Writers primarily published in periodicals or on websites may find it premature to apply given the competition’s rigorous nature.
- The Latin American and Caribbean competition is currently suspended, but the U.S. and Canadian competition remains unaffected.
About the Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are designed for mid-career individuals who have shown exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or outstanding creative ability in the arts, with promising future prospects.
These fellowships are open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada, and candidates must apply to the Guggenheim Foundation to be considered.
Approximately 3,000 applications are received annually, with no guaranteed success or prescreening; all applications are reviewed. Around 175 Fellowships are granted each year.
During the rigorous selection process, applicants are grouped with peers in the same field and reviewed by experts in that domain. The work of artists is evaluated by artists, scientists by scientists, and so forth. A network of several hundred advisers, all previous Guggenheim Fellows, reviews and ranks applications in their respective fields. These recommendations are then considered by a Committee of Selection, which determines the number of awards in each area. In some cases, no application in a given area merits a Fellowship.
Confidentiality is guaranteed for advisers, Committee of Selection members, and reference letter submitters. Therefore, reasons for application rejections will not be disclosed.
The Committee of Selection submits its recommendations to the Board of Trustees for final approval, and successful candidates in the U.S. and Canadian competition are announced in early April.
