{"id":3072,"date":"2019-03-18T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2019-03-19T03:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T10:52:51","slug":"the-ruth-lily-fellowships-25800-for-young-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/the-ruth-lily-fellowships-25800-for-young-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ruth Lilly Fellowships: $25,800 for Young Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applications are now open for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship. $25,800 will be awarded to 5 poets. The total award is $129,000.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible, poets must be between 21 and 31 years old. (Sorry! Even the author of this short article is not eligible.)<\/p>\n<p>Applications are due April 30th, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to their website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships in the amount of $25,800 each will be awarded to young poets in the U.S. through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of <em>Poetry<\/em> magazine. Established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the fellowships are intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The competition is completely free to enter. Applications will send 10 pages of poems, a 250 word introduction to your work, and an optional publication list.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/foundation\/prizes_fellowship\">this page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications are now open for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship. $25,800 will be awarded to 5 poets. The total award is $129,000. To be eligible, poets must be between 21 and 31 years old. (Sorry! Even the author of this short article is not eligible.) Applications are due April 30th, 2019. According to their website: Five&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6384,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions\/6384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}