This year's round of grants for feminist writers of fiction given by the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund will close to entries on December 31. The application period for the grants, ranging from five hundred to fifteen hundred dollars, is open annually in the month of December for fiction writers and in June for poets and creative nonfiction writers.
Women fiction writers working on a specific project that would benefit from a grant by the Deming fund should submit a resumé, a project outline, a budget, and a writing sample of up to twenty-five pages by the end of this month, along with an application that one can attain by sending an SASE to the organization. There is a twenty-dollar fee to apply.
Last year's winners are Joan Connor of Athens, Ohio, and Evelyn Somers Rogers of Boonville, Missouri, who each received a one-thousand-dollar grant. Connor, who teaches at the University of Ohio, is the author of four books of fiction and creative nonfiction. Rogers writes fiction "about women's experience," according to her profile on the University of Missouri Web site, where she is associate editor of the Missouri Review.