Last week, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its fellowships for the year. The fellows are “appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants.” Each fellow is awarded a $50,000 grant.

Of the 175 given out this year, 36 went to the following writers in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and science writing.

• Beth Bachmann
• Jesse Ball
• Rick Barot
• Lauren Berlant
• Jericho Brown
• Stephen Burt
• Jennifer Clement
• Amity Gaige
• Cynthia Huntington
• Rebecca Jordan-Young
• Katrina Karkazis
• Sally Keith
• James Kimbrell
• Adam Kirsch
• Chris Kraus
• Amitava Kumar
• Glenn Kurtz
• Nick Laird
• Laila Lalami
• Deborah Landau
• Thomas Levenson
• Paul Lisicky
• Thomas McNamee
• Fred Moten
• Victoria Nelson
• Jenny Offill
• Amanda Petrusich
• Robert Reid-Pharr
• Ed Roberson
• Jess Row
• Naomi Seidman
• René Steinke
• Robert Storr
• Sarah Payne Stuart
• Melanie Rae Thon
• Brian Turner