The George Bennett Fellowship is offered by Philips Exeter Academy. The school provides meals and housing for the writer for a academic year, as well as a stipend (currently $12,600) to allow the recipient to focus on writing. The writer in turn provides informal guidance, advice, and criticism to the students of the academy and to work directly with those students in English classes and in literary clubs or organizations.
The Alfred Hodder Fellowship, offered by Princeton University, is a fellowship for writers that are in their early career stages but have not yet gotten recognition for their works or sold a manuscript. The Fellowship pays the writer a set stipend ($63,900 for the 2011-12 Fellowship) for the writer to spend an academic year on the Princeton campus working on independent projects.
The Gift of Freedom award is a $50,000 stipend presented by the A Room of Her Own Foundation (AROHO) and is specifically for female writers. The award is given to poets and journalists as well as writers of fiction. Recipients focus on their own work as well as provide guidance to attendants of AROHO writing camps and retreats.