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Leon Levy Biography Fellowships [1]

No entry fee
Deadline: 
January 6, 2025
Entry Fee: 
$0
Cash Prize: 
$72,000
Website: 
http://llcb.ws.gc.cuny.edu/fellowships/biography-fellowships [2]

Four yearlong fellowships of $72,000, writing space at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, access to research facilities, and research assistance from a graduate student are given annually to nonfiction writers working on biographies. An additional Sloan Fellowship of the same amount is given annually to a writer working on a biography of a figure in the field of science or technology. Using only the online submission system, submit a sample of up to 2,500 words from the biography, a curriculum vitae, a project description, a narrative career history, and two letters of reference by January 6, 2025. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Leon Levy Center for Biography, Leon Levy Biography Fellowships, Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6200, New York, NY 10016. Thad Ziolkowski, Deputy Director.

E-mail address: 
tziolkowski@gc.cuny.edu [3]

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/leon_levy_biography_fellowships [2] http://llcb.ws.gc.cuny.edu/fellowships/biography-fellowships [3] mailto:tziolkowski@gc.cuny.edu