PEN America invites applications for the U.S. Writers Aid Initiative, which is intended to assist fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. Applicants must be professional writers based in the US and be able to demonstrate that this one-time grant will be meaningful in helping address a short-term emergency situation. Amount: Unspecified. Deadline: 7/15/25.