Consists of individual letters, letters of agreement, and memorandums with ICM Partners, Tin House, The New Yorker, Curtis Brown Group Limited, and The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Also includes five letters from Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, University of Arizona Press publication consent agreement, and a subscription revenue list. Materials originally arranged by Williams in a purple hanging folder titled “Contracts/Reprints.” Original folder has been discarded.

Materials originally arranged by Williams in a purple hanging folder titled “NEA/Guggenheim/Fla. Arts Council.” Original folder has been discarded.

Typescript, 2 pages. The National Endowment for the Arts announces the Creative Writing Fellowships for fiscal 1988.

Consists of list of nominees from 1986-1997, award winner notices, various correspondences, a photograph of Joy Williams, and a folder with information on 1999 winner Joy Williams, the jurors, and award founder Michael M. Rea. Materials originally arranged by Williams in a purple hanging folder titled “Rea Award.” Original folder has been discarded.

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Includes a letter from Richard Scowcroft to Joy Williams concerning nursery schools and centers around Stanford University in the event that she decides to settle there.

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Concerns a letter to Joy Williams from John M. O'Shea on behalf of Truman Capote in regards to accepting Williams' use of his name for a Guggenheim grant.

Typed letter signed, 2 pages. Includes a typed letter signed from Gordon N. Ray, the President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to Joy Williams in regards to a Fellowship grant.