Overview
- The foundation announced that the Book Fellowship, long run every two years, will shift to an annual cycle starting this year with applications open each year for about three months.
- The fellowship continues to provide a monthly stipend plus editorial support, mentorship, and access to a community of writers and thinkers to help authors complete long-form projects.
- NIF leaders said the change responds to a rising volume of strong applications and signals growing interest in serious nonfiction about India since 1947.
- Annual awards will let hopeful applicants reapply sooner and help build a larger, more active alumni network that can offer peer support and collaboration.
- NIF still runs two other programmes—the Translation Fellowship and the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize—and over two decades the Book Fellowship has supported nearly 40 nonfiction books.