Deep Vellum Award Grant From Amazon Literary Partnership

JULY 16th, 2025—Deep Vellum is pleased to announce that we have been selected to receive one of the 2025 Amazon Literary Partnership grants of $15,000. This is the fifth grant awarded to Deep Vellum from the Amazon Literary Partnership. Funding from this grant will directly help us grow in our mission in bringing the best and brightest writers’ works from around the world into translation as well as assisting us in physically bringing our authors here for tours, signings, and other events relating to their books.

Support from our funders help make our work possible. We are eagerly looking forward to the release of some of our upcoming books from incredible authors such as Andrea Bajani (Book of Homes, out August 5th, 2025), Leylâ Erbil (What Remains, out October 7th, 2025), and Alla Gorbunova ((Th)ings and (Th)oughts, out November 4th, 2025). Each of these titles, as well as our other forthcoming releases and future events, will benefit from our Amazon Literary Partnership grant.

Interested in seeing what other titles are currently available for pre-order? Find out more under our Forthcoming tab on our website. You can also stay up to date on all of our current and future events under our Events tab.

Amazon Literary Partnership seeks to fund organizations working to champion diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented authors and storytellers. Previous grant recipients represent both local and national institutions of all sizes and include nonprofit writing centers, residencies, fellowships, after-school classes, literary magazines, national organizations supporting storytelling and free speech, and internationally acclaimed publishers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In 2024, they provided nearly $1 million in grant funding to 93 literary organizations across the country.

Since 2009, Amazon Literary Partnership has provided more than $17 million in funding to local, regional, and national organizations across the country that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive in order to reach their audiences. This program aims to support organizations that amplify often overlooked and underrepresented writers, and connect them with their readers.