Apply here for the 2023-2024 Cullman Center Fellowship For journalists

Cullman Center Fellowship | The Cullman Center at the New York Public Library is accepting applications for its fellowship.

Within the Center, in open forums throughout the Library, and in the Fellows’ published work, the programme aims to foster dynamic communication about literature and scholarship at the highest level.

15 fellows will be chosen, per the organiser, for a nine-month period at the Library beginning in September 2023 and ending in May 2024.

In addition to working on their individual projects, fellows participate in regular discussions in the Center and in open forums around the Library.

Each fellow who accepts the fellowship will get up to US$75,000 in addition to an office, a computer, and total access to the Library’s resources.

This Cullman Center Fellowship is available in New York to journalists, writers, and other people who are working on a book project.

Candidates from abroad who speak English well and visual artists who are working on a book project are also encouraged to apply.

September 30, 2022, is the last day for applications of to be submitted. Those that are interested can apply here.

About Cullman Center Fellowship Programme

The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Authors is an international fellowship programme available to academics, independent scholars, and writers whose work would directly benefit from access to the collections of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (novelists, playwrights, poets). Applying visual artists who are working on a book project is likewise acceptable. For a nine-month term at the Library, from September through May, the Center invites 15 Fellows each year. Along with working on their own projects, the Fellows participate in frequent discussions at the Center and in open forums around the Library.

Scope

Those whose work will directly benefit from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street are eligible for fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. The Library is a world-renowned resource for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, sports, and urban studies. It is known for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its contents.

Terms & Conditions

A total of fifteen fellowships are given out each year by the Cullman Center’s selection committee to deserving academics, independent researchers, journalists, playwrights, poets, novelists, and visual artists. English-speaking foreign nationals are encouraged to apply. Candidates for the Fellowship must spend most of their time working at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building rather than at other departments within the Library. People looking for support for projects that would immediately result in degrees are ineligible.

The Cullman Center seeks out the writing of the highest calibre. Within the Center, in open forums throughout the Library, and in the published work of the Fellows, it seeks to foster dynamic communication about literature and scholarship at the very highest level.

A Cullman Center Fellow is given a stipend of up to $75,000, access to the Library’s physical and digital resources, and use of an office with a computer. The Fellowship term, which runs from September to May, is spent working at the Center by the Fellow. Each Fellow presents a discussion over lunch to the other Fellows and a wide spectrum of invited guests on their current work-in-progress. They may also be asked to participate in other events at The New York Public Library.

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