The Larry Levis Post-Graduate Stipend
Two Larry Levis Post-Graduate Stipends, one in fiction and one in poetry, are awarded annually to support graduates of the MFA Program for Writers who are completing first books. The Levis Stipends are open only to Program alumni who have not yet published a full-length collection in the selected genre in a standard edition.
Deadlines, guidelines, and award amounts are announced each August on the Friends of Writers blog (www.friendsofwriters.org). Applications are submitted through Submittable. The submission period typically opens in in September, with winners announced the following January. Manuscripts are judged blindly by writers not associated with the MFA Program for Writers. Judges are announced with the winning manuscripts.
Please refer to the Friends of Writers blog for complete guidelines, deadlines, and all other submission information.
About Larry Levis
Larry Levis (1946-1996) was an award-winning poet who wrote six books of poetry during his lifetime. His collection, Elegy, was published posthumously. A Selected Poems was published in 2000. The Darkening Trapeze, a collection of last poems, was published in 2016. Levis was a much-beloved member of the faculty at the MFA Program for Writers, cherished as much for his incisive mind as for the care and attention he gave to his students.
