Hearst Foundations Fellowship

Hearst Foundations Fellowships are for creative and performing artists and writers.

Application Procedure

All applicants are considered for both the Hearst Foundations Fellowship and Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship. 

In addition to completing the online application form, the elements listed below are required for the completion of your application. Information about the required elements is given within the online form.

  • STATEMENT
  • CURRENT RÉSUMÉ 
  • WORK SAMPLES and REVIEWS 
  • TWO CONTACTS OF REFERENCE 

Apply Online

Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2018 Lisa Bielawa New York, NY Composer, Producer, Performer Sanctuary & Centuries in the Hours: A series of small works for the violin and voice, focusing on immigration
2017 Arielle Ballard Brockton, MA Poet Research on interactions between black and indigenous people for a full-length book of poetry
2017 Shana Youngdahl Farmington, ME Poet and Author Research for poems about women in the early New England tin ware industry
2016 Denise Miller Texas Township, MI Creative Writer Travelogos: African Americans and the Struggle for Safe Passage
2016 Susan Stinson Northampton, MA Novelist Research for a novel about Elizabeth Tuttle Edwards
2015 Erin Lyons Washington, DC Fiction Writer Historical novel about Anne Hutchinson and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, from 1630-1638, told from the point of view of a servant girl
2015 Stephanie Carpenter Hancock, MI Fiction Writer Many and Wide Separations: Two novellas that focus on fictional female artists in mid-nineteenth-century New England
2014 Sarah Stern Red Hook, NY Playwright Research for play tentatively called "The Spectator," which deals with the intersection of politics and theatre in New York City during the 1730s
2014 Carolyn Kras Los Angeles, CA Writer, Screen (TV, Theater, Stage) Research for a TV pilot script to take place in 1871 after the Great Chicago Fire
2013 Amina Gautier Chicago, IL Fiction Writer Band of Gideon: A historical novel about 3 black female members of Gideon's Band, a group of Northern idealist, seminary students, school teachers, and abolitionists who traveled south to help the slaves on the South Carolina Sea Island