The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing, published by Watson-Guptill, is a guide to winning funds and transforming your career as an artist.

Gigi wrote The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing, now in its sixth printing, so that every second you spend writing a grant proposal pushes your art further into the world. Published in 2010 by Watson-Guptill, a division of Random House, the book is targeted at professional and aspiring literary, visual and performing artists. 

Buy it at your favorite bookstore now!

Buy it at your favorite bookstore now!

The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing

Written in a down-to-earth style, The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing provides concrete information about how to write winning grant applications and fundraise creatively so that you can finance your artistic dreams.

This 224-page book grew out of Gigi’s popular workshops which empower artists to craft winning proposals and fundraise for their artistic dreams.

With Gigi’s book, readers are transformed from starving artists into working artists who confidently tap into all the resources at their disposal.

What readers Are saying

I found out this morning that I was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for $25,000. I’m beyond grateful for Gigi’s help with my submission. I doubt that I would have received the funding had it not been for her wise suggestions and smart editing.
— Joan Gold, Artist, joangoldart.com
This book is insightful, informative, and a fun read. Rosenberg offers solid tools for researching grants, writing successful proposals, and getting out of your own way.
— Stephen Mallon, Photographer and Past President of the American Society of Media Photographers, New York City chapter
This book is a terrific resource—it is VERY practical, stresses the importance of audience awareness in writing, full of down-to-earth suggestions, easy to read, and it is cross-disciplinary, which suits the wide range of majors I encounter in my university course - so thanks. I vetted (and continue to review) many books on writing for artists and keep coming back to yours.
— Stacy Glen Tibbetts, Lecturer in English, The Pennsylvania State University
Rosenberg demystifies the grant writing process!
— Reni Gower, Professor, Painting and Printmaking Department, Virginia Commonwealth University
In the three years since reading The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing I have received a $1,200 grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, an $800 scholarship to attend an Anderson Ranch workshop, a $350 grant from the College Book Arts Association, and completed a successful fiscally-sponsored Indiegogo campaign raising $13,000 in one month!
— Lucy Holtsnider, LucyHoltsnider.com
Two months after reading Gigi’s book, I was nominated for a second time for the $30,000 Edes Prize. Gigi’s guidance helped me map out my artistic journey and articulate that story. Yesterday I found out I had been awarded the prize! I’ll be spending next year in Italy studying shadow puppetry with masters, attending shadow puppet festivals and sharpening my own craft.
— Karly Bergmann, Theater Artist
This book is wonderful. Personal, sympathetic, practical, encouraging.
— Ellen Thomas, Education Director, NW Film Center
The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing has everything one needs to know, with easy step-by-step directions, for writing thorough and meaningful proposals that can win competitive grants.
— Michael Royce, Executive Director, New York Foundation for the Arts
I LOVE this book! From the first sentence of the preface, I was grabbed like the very best of memoirs. Enchanted. In love with the author. Wanting to know everything she has to tell me. This is going to be a life- and career-changing book for me.
— Sage Cohen, author, entrepreneur & divorce guide
This book is a must for anyone considering a grant. I’ve already dog-eared mine. It not only teaches you how to seek, write and execute a grant, but it helps you believe in yourself as a deserving artist. (See Hope’s longer review below.)
— C. Hope Clark, FundsForWriters.com
The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing has everything one needs to know, with easy step-by-step directions, for writing thorough and meaningful proposals that can win competitive grants. I would recommend it to any artist.
— Michael Royce, Executive Director, New York Foundation for the Arts
Gigi makes you believe you can do this. And she gives you the tools to get down to work.
— Alyson Stanfield, ArtBizCoach.com
Rosenberg takes the reader by the hand to navigate the fundraising process, demystifying many of the daunting components that line the road to funding.
— Neil Reilly, New York Foundation for the Arts Current
Rather than being a how-to book on writing grants, or listing grants, it helps writers wrap their minds around the concept of obtaining grants, down to and including budgets. This, my friends, is a bible when it comes to writers learning the grant world.

She emphasizes what I’ve told writers all along—win that first grant, no matter how small, and you’ve earned a sense of validation that carries you a long way—in your eyes, in your peers’ eyes, in other grant judges’ eyes.

I love the first chapter, Start Your Research With You. In a marvelous manner, she teaches you how to embrace grants by studying yourself. Many writers want grants, but they haven’t thought about how to justify their abilities to judges . . . and themselves.

Each chapter ends with an assignment, then tips called “Gigi’s Cheat Sheet” that take the chapter and turn it into simple concepts and mini-tasks that bring them home. This book is a must for anyone considering a grant. I’ve already dog-eared mine. It not only teaches you how to seek, write and execute a grant, but it helps you believe in yourself as a deserving artist.

This book is going on my website as a must-have resource. If I had to rate it one to five, it would rank a six.
— C. Hope Clark, fundsforwriters.com
What a fabulous gift Rosenberg offers us! She writes with charm, intelligence, and clarity.
— Ellen Sussman, Author of French Lessons