Fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, opinion, memoir, rhetorical essay, travel writing, translation of a literary work, hiring a line editor for line edits, copy editing, fees for type-setting, cover art, promotion of a creative work, self-publishing, and use of a publishing service are eligible for funding by an R2AC grant.
Literary works ineligible for funding include:
- Literary works with the primary purpose to relay information, such as journalism, history, biography, and scholarly manuscripts; translation of a work that is not a literary work of art into another language.
- Anthologies or compilations of other authors’ work (individual McKnight funded grants only).
- Any publication distributed only to an organization’s membership
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