NEA grants for publishers and literary organizations were terminated earlier this year, plus senior NEA officials resigned. Now the Trump administration has announced that creative writing fellowship grants will no longer be issued in 2026. The program offers grants of up to $50,000 to individual writers in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry; the grant is one of the most prestigious a US-based writer can receive. However, the NEA will continue to award grants to organizations that support writers. Learn more.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
