DeWittt Wallace/Readers Digest Fellowship

Endowed Fellowships

DeWittt Wallace/Readers Digest Fellowship

Established in 1978

These Fellowships were established to support residencies for writers.

Most recent recipients

Benjamin Taylor, Ellena Savage, Keith Kopka, Joanna Pearson, Alexandra Kleeman, Achim Nowak, James Yeh, Margaret Lazarus Dean, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa 2024

Past recipients

Allegra Goodman, Ronnie Huett, Lucy Corin, Leila Mottley, Matthew Wamser, Jandy Nelson, Susan Steinberg, Ben Hoffman, Alicia Obejas 2023
Adam O'Fallon Price, Ben Yagoda, Kiki Petrosino, Mary-Beth Hughes 2022
Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Clare Beams, Nicholas Boggs, Jennifer Haigh 2021
Sheila Heti, Stephen Macone, Andrew Martin, Michael Scott Moore 2019
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Annie Sloniker, Amy Waldman, Eric Puchner 2018
Alex Abramovich, Rebecca Godfrey, Cara Hoffman, Hillary Jordan 2017
Amy Bloom, Neel Mukherjee, Jennifer Offill, Daniel Wallace, Lan Samantha Chang, Susan Choi, Salvatore Scibona, James Sturm 2016
Anne Fadiman, Kevin Jones, Patricia Volk, Tracy Winn 2015
Meehan Crist, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Samin Nosrat, Steven Ujifusa 2014
Rick Barot, Rob Ehle, Robin Romm, Helen Betya Rubinstein 2013
Lisa Carey, Sheri Fink, Glen Gold, Ben Marcus 2012
Ruth Davis Konigsberg, Gary Giddins, Susan Orlean, ZZ Packer 2011
Stacey D'Erasmo, Daniel Handler, Joan Wickersham, Jacqueline Woodson 2010
Amy Bloom, Brian Evenson, Adam Haslett, Sam Swope 2009
Henri Cole, Jonathan Dee, Mary Johnson, Andrew Solomon 2008
Olivia Gentile, Meera Nair, Silvia Pareschi, Kenneth Turan 2007
Jane Brox, Sylvia Nasar, Alice Sebold, Joan Silber 2006
Marie-Helene Carleton, Micah Garen, Joan Leegant, Manuel Luis Martinez 2005
T. Louise Freeman-Toole, Camilla Gibb, Caroline Heller, Michelle Hoover 2004
Roya Hakakian, Anna Keesey, Valerie Miner, Margo Rabb 2003
Jill Bauerle, Joan Brumberg, Valerie Hurley, Joshua Shenk 2002
Peter Bricklebank, Rachel Cohen, D. Nurkse, Stephen O'Connor 2001
Agymah Kamau, Roger King, Jo McDougall, Suketu Mehta, Mark Salzman 2000
Betsy Berne, Patricia Powell, Patricia Robertson 1999
Florence Ladd, Rita Riddle, Bernestine Singley, Justin Spring 1998
Jane Brox, Sandra Tsing Loh, Rob Nixon, Hermine Pinson, Janet Sylvester 1997
Michael Chabon, Lisa Kron, Stephen Kuusisto, Achim Nowak, Hilary Sio, Carol Volk 1996
Anthony Brown, Joan Brumberg, Matthew Goodman, Gary Schiro, Steven Sherrill 1995
Roberta Fernández, Betty Fussell, Zane Kotker, Phyllis Stowell 1994
Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch, Thulani Davis, Mary Hood, Christine Jerome, Richard Nelson, Christopher Wren 1993
Kiana Davenport, Nancy Lord, Eileen Myles, Edward Swift, Blema Wolin 1992
Don Belton, Randall Kenan, James Lardner, Rob Nixon, Lynne Schwartz 1990
Dorothy Barnhouse, Clair Berg, Stanley Crawford, Carole Maso, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, John Spaulding 1989
Coleman Barks, Mark Coovelis, Carol Kyle, Paul Muldoon, Walter Dean Myers, Ronnie Paris 1988
Marilyn Chin, Maria Fitzgerald, Paul Friedman, Oscar Hijuelos, Richard McCann, Meg Wolitzer 1987
Doris Austin, Anne Blackford, Cynthia Cotts, Allison Funk, Oscar Hijuelos, Len Jenkin, Michael Oakes, Patten Wells 1984
Madison Bell, Victor Bumbalo, Steve Carter, Roberta Fernández, Dee Fonville, Barry Goldensohn, Carol Herron, Romulus Linney, Terry McMillan 1983
Barbara Harrison, Lesley Hazleton, Ursula Holden, Owen Levy, Jane Mankiewicz, Lawrence Millman, Askold Melnyczuk, Karen Mitchell, Marjorie Rosen, Francis Sullivan 1982
Jack Barbera, Patricia Goedicke, Marilyn Hacker, Deborah Hautzig, Mary Karr, Nancy Knutson, William McBrien, Marie Ponsot, Mary Elsie Robertson, Nan Robertson, Louis Sheaffer, Meg Wolitzer 1981
Stephen Ajay, John Casey, Scott Donaldson, Thomas Lux, Nancy Miller, David Robb, Helen Rogan, Anneliese Wagner 1980
Sally Belfrage, Mary Kinzie, Nancy Milford, Richard Price, Philip Schultz, Peter Ryan, Peter Sourian 1979

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