Guggenheim Fellowship (US & Canada)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation United States, Canada
Prestigious mid-career fellowship supporting scholars, scientists and artists in the US and Canada to pursue a significant project; no application fee.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your personal statement, tailored résumé and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
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About
What it offers: Fellowship grant (amount varies; not stated).
Also: prestige and network of Fellows.
Who can apply: US or Canadian citizens/permanent residents with a significant record of achievement; students and current Fellows ineligible.
Free to apply.
Annual: opens mid-August, due mid-September (2027 competition closed Sept 15, 2026).
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: proposal, cv, work sample, references.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “The 2027 United States and Canada competition is now closed.”
Who can apply
- Open to creators and freelancers, researchers
- US or Canadian citizens/permanent residents with a significant record of achievement; students and current Fellows ineligible.
What you will need
- Research proposalUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Academic CVUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Work samplesOnly you can supply it: upload it once and it is attached wherever it is asked for.
- Recommendation letters (drafts for your referees)Upload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your personal statement, tailored résumé and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation without your tap.
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