Storyknife is proud to announce that we’re a 2026 general operating grant recipient of the Literary Arts Fund. The Literary Arts Fund announced today $7.7 million in inaugural unrestricted general operating grants to 40 literary arts organizations and publishers spanning 19 states, from Alaska to Florida, that help champion writers and reading, and the essential contributions both make to our culture, communities, and lives.
Launched in October 2025, the Literary Arts Fund was initiated by the Mellon Foundation as a collaborative effort with the Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Poetry Foundation, and an anonymous foundation, prompted by the finding that the literary arts are the least supported artistic discipline in the U.S. According to research the Fund conducted using the nonprofit database Candid, startlingly, just 1.9% of the $5 billion contributed by private foundations to arts and culture in 2023 went toward literature and writing, a fact that has been consistently true for the previous five years. The Fund aims to catalyze new and increased support for the nonprofit literary arts field, which uniquely assists creative writers, by providing at least $50 million over the next five years.
Storyknife Writers Retreat is honored and grateful to be among the 40 inaugural grant recipients. To be included in such company as the National Book Foundation, Poet’s House, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and Indigenous Nations Poets is an endorsement of the important work of Storyknife Writers Retreat in supporting writers who will shape the narrative through the plurality of their voices.
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