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
2013 Aimee Parkison Stillwater, OK Fiction Writer Sister Seance: A historical literary novel set in Concord, MA in the 19th century, that explores the hidden sexual implications in parlor games and holiday courtship rituals of Victorian Americans
2012 Ansel Elkins Greensboro, NC Poet A collection of poems about the lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy
2012 Anne Harley Claremont, CA Musician, Soprano True Witness: A multi-choral civil rights cantata inspired by the texts of Charlotte Forten
2011 Kelle Groom New Smyrna Beach, FL Poet Memoir about Thomas Greenough, the last surviving Wampanoag Indian on the Bass River reservation in South Yarmouth, MA
2011 Brian Teare Charlottesville, VA Poet Inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism
2010 Sean Hill Bemidji, MN Poet Dangerous Goods: A series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s
2010 Kathryn Nuernberger Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN Poet A collection of poems that merges poetic and academic impulses through special attention to performance art from the 19th century as well as games, plays, and librettos
2009 Robert Strong Maine Poet Bright Advent: A work of poetry set in the years leading to King Philip's War
2009 Ann Lovett New Paltz, NY Photographer Artist book about the textile mills of Lowell and other Massachusetts mill towns and the "mill girls" who worked in them
2008 Sandra Jackson-Opoku Chicago, IL Novelist God's Gift to the Natives: A novel that explores one musician's enigmatic life and tragic death, while also charting the history and movement of the African diaspora