25+ June Open Calls for Writers (and Artists)

Featuring fully funded residencies, writing contests, non-fiction prizes, independent project grants, fellowships + MORE.

Hey writer friends,

A massive thank you for your continued support <3

The intention with this space has always been to share accessible resources + aid you in your writing practice + get more eyes on your work. Special announcement on the way!

With care,

K

Chestnut Review

Seeking poetry, flash, prose and artwork for their Autumn Issue

We love mixed-genre and mixed-media pieces! If you have work that doesn’t fit neatly into the categories listed, that doesn’t mean we won’t want to see it. Choose the most appropriate and include a note—we’ll figure it out.

Compensation: 120 USD

Submissions Due: June 30th

• For prose there in an entry fee of 5.00 USD, this fee is waved for Black and Indigenous writers.

Info + Submissions: HERE

Griffith Review

Seeking Poetry for Best Dressed

No matter how much or how little you care about what you wear, your sartorial choices are inextricably stitched into your social, cultural and personal identities. Clothing not only dictates how we define ourselves and relate to others – throughout history, it's also been a mode of expression, resistance, revolution and disruption.

Compensation: 200 AUD / 130 USD (per poem)

Submissions Due: June 22nd

Info + Submissions: HERE

The New York Times: Modern Love

Seeking: Honest personal essays about contemporary relationships.

“We seek true stories on finding love, losing love and trying to keep love alive. We welcome essays that explore subjects such as adoption, polyamory, technology, race and friendship — anything that could reasonably fit under the heading “Modern Love.” Ideally, essays should spring from some central dilemma you have faced. It is helpful, but not essential, for the situation to reflect what is happening in the world now.”

Submissions Due: June 30th

To Submit: Send submissions to modernlove@nytimes.com

Please put the subject of your essay or a possible title in the email subject line.

• Limit your essay to 1,500-1,700 words.

• Attach your essay as a Microsoft Word-compatible doc and paste the text into the body of the email. If your first submission is incomplete, please resubmit one complete entry; do not submit just the missing pieces in additional emails.

• Essays must be entirely true. Do not use pseudonyms (including for yourself), composite characters or invented situations or scenes. There are no exceptions to this rule.

• Essays must be previously unpublished. Work that has appeared online — on another news website, a personal blog, Medium or elsewhere — is considered previously published.

• Essays will be edited in consultation with writers, and writers will be compensated for work that is published.

Compensation: $ (amount unstated)

Info: HERE

C Magazine

Call for Letters

The Letters column features a selection of 100-400 word letters to our editors, contributors and readers, and is printed at the front of every issue.

Letters should engage the previous issue—its theme, articles, images—and related ideas beyond the magazine’s pages. They may be informal, informative, creative, inquisitive, speculative, critical, or any other number of things imaginable in the epistolary form. The column is intended to create space for dialogue on and around contemporary art and to continue conversations between issues, themes, and writers.

Selected letters will be published in C161 STOP! (Autumn 2025).

Compensation: A $100 honorarium is paid to each writer whose letter is selected for print.

Submissions Due: June 24th

Note: Published letters may be edited lightly for length and clarity.

Submit to: Send letters to pitch@cmagazine.com with LETTERS in the subject line.

Baffling Magazine

We are looking for speculative stories that explore science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent. We want queer stories and we want trans stories and we want aro/ace stories. We want indefinable stories. We welcome weird, slipstream, and interstitial writing.

Accepting: mecha vs kaiju theme, as well as unthemed submissions

Compensation: $0.08/word (up to 1200 words) + Stories will be published first on our Patreon, then made available in our quarterly issues, and finally in an annual print anthology.

Submissions Due: June 15th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Paul Robeson Galleries | Rutgers University

Artist Open Call: Wasted

This exhibition will feature artworks that address the subject of plastic. This could be artworks made about plastic, made with plastic, or referencing how plastic has impacted this planet. Work may refer to petrochemical plastics, or bio-plastics, or historic precursors to plastic. This exhibition will be the third in a series titled Invisible City (Newark) which speaks to the history of the city through a collection of excavated artifacts from a downtown city block.

Compensation: Honorarium (amount unstated) + additional payments for programs.

Submissions Due: June 25th

Submit to: contact_prg@newark.rutgers.edu

Info: HERE

Konsume Magazine

State of the Media 2025

We’re seeking bold, insightful, and data-driven stories from writers who can decode the forces shaping our digital world. If you’re passionate about media, technology, and the power structures behind them, we want your voice.

What We’re Looking For:

• Investigative deep dives on who really shapes news narratives

• Data-driven stories that visualize the state of journalism

• Punchy op-eds that call out corporate malfeasance in social media and news media landscapes

• Art-meets-analysis takes on propaganda, bias, and censorship

• Pieces that make readers say, “Wow, I've never thought about it like that.”

Compensation: $0.07 to $0.20 per word

To Submit: Send your pitch or completed article to info@konsume.com, and include [Konsume Magazine Submission] in the subject line.

Info: HERE

The Farm | Margaret River

Fully Funded Residency Program

With a specific focus on site-responsive projects, the Residency provides an immersive space for creative inquiry, fostering connections between the artist(s), environment, and community. It supports artists who are committed to rigorous research, experimentation, and dialogue—encouraging new ways of thinking about land and our relationship to it .

** The Farm Margaret River is located on Wardandi Noongar land, an ancient and ever-evolving landscape where artists in residence have the rare opportunity to immerse themselves in the landscape. Surrounded by sacred Caves, Karri forests, and a rugged coastline, The Farm exists within a region rich in ecological and cultural significance.The Farm fosters rigourous creative inquiry, inviting Australian and international artists to develop work in response to this unique environment.

Any work created during the residency should reflect this experience. Artists will also have opportunities to engage with the local community.

Compensation:

• $7,500 grant

• Self-contained studio accommodation

• Opportunities for mentorship and connections with major arts organizations

• Project support and initial travel expenses to the property

• Access to a gallery space, workshop, working farm, and natural bushland, fostering a rich and inspiring creative environment

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Submissions Due: June 2nd, 5:00pm (AWST)

Info + Submissions: HERE

Memezine

Kakistocracy

Urgent times call for urgent writing

This issue will be curated by guest editors Rachel Lauren Myers and Thom Eichelberger-Young (T E-Y), co-sponsored by Blue Bag Press, an answering howl to the important work of ISSUE01.

• We like stuff that blurs the lines between art, literature, and content. Send any work (traditional or hybrid) that engages with our participation in the digital landscape.

Compensation: So far we have $200 in the bucket, which will be split evenly between contributors. We will accept a maximum of 10 artists. If you choose to donate to MEMEZINE via the “tip jar” option during this call, that amount will be added to the bucket to be used to pay these artists.

Submissions Due: June 21st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Wassaic Project

Haunted Mill Open Call

Get ready to bring your zaniest, spookiest ideas to life!

This year, we’re looking for some seriously eerie proposals: think of site-specific installations in Maxon Mills, outdoor creations, and performances that will make your skin crawl. We want haunted games, creepy trick-or-treat stations, and any other spine-chilling ideas you can conjure up!

For installations and performances, you’ll have total creative freedom—just keep it PG-13! If you’re an artist who loves to push boundaries, embrace the strange, and work independently, this is the residency and exhibition for you!

Compensation: Haunted Mill artists will have access to housing in one of our residency houses for 1 - 5 weeks between October 1st to November 3rd, 2025, private studio space in Maxon Mills, and additional space in the Luther Barn. We’re offering $500 - $800 honorariums (depending on the scope of the project) to participating artists and artistic teams for your hard work and creativity.

Note: This application has a $25 entry fee

Submissions Due: June 23rd

Info + Submissions: HERE

Wassaic Project

Now Accepting Residency Applications

The Wassaic Project seeks artists working in a diverse range of media who want to produce, explore, challenge, and expand on their current art-making practices while participating in a community-based arts organization.

This call is for individual artists, collaborative teams, groups of two or more individual artists, and artists applying through our Family Residency program.

Note: This application has a $25 entry fee, although, they DO offer financial assistance to artists who self-report need in their applications + several types of fellowships to mitigate accessibility challenges.

Compensation:

• 500 Honorarium

• 24-hour access to an adaptable, semi-private, 200-300 square foot studios in the historic Luther Barn.

• Accommodations include a private bedroom in a shared house, complete with common spaces, 1–2 full bathrooms, and a kitchen (artists participating in our Family Residency will receive a private house).

• Artists-in-residence also have access to our print shop and wood shop.

• Monthly programming includes open studios, group studio visits with our embedded critics, Ghost of a Dream, and one-on-one studio visits and artist talks with 2–3 creative professionals, our Director of Artistic Programming, and WP staff.

Submissions Due: June 23rd

Info + Submissions: HERE

Adi Magazine

Seeking: Essays & Reportage

Send us a short summary (3 paragraphs maximum) that describes the story you want to tell, how you will tell it, why it’s important, and why you’re the person to write it.

To Submit: Please include 1-2 links of your previous work and send it to admin@adimagazine.com with “NONFICTION PITCH” in the subject line.

Compensation: Adi pays $600 for essays and $750 for reportage.

Submissions Due: Accepted on a Rolling Basis

Info + Submissions: HERE

Adi Magazine

Seeking: Interviews

We welcome interview pitches for authors with forthcoming/recent books or artists with upcoming/recent shows.

• Send us a short summary (3 paragraphs maximum) in the body of your email that names the writer or artist you want to interview, why this person should be interviewed at Adi, and why you’re the person to conduct the interview.

To Submit: Please include 1-2 links of your previous work and send it to admin@adimagazine.com with “INTERVIEW PITCH” in the subject line.

Compensation: 250 USD

Submissions Due: Accepted on a rolling basis

Info + Submissions: HERE

Adi Magazine

Seeking: Translations

If you are a translator with work from writers who you think might fit with Adi, please get in touch.

• We only accept pieces that have not been published in English.

• If a piece of poetry or fiction has already been translated, you may submit it through our open calls on Submittable, but, if not, feel free to email us with a blurb about the piece at admin@adimagazine.com with “TRANSLATION PITCH” in the subject line.

Compensation: Determined by the type of submission

Submissions Due: On a Rolling Basis

Info + Submissions: HERE

Dream Foundry

Emerging Writers Contest

This contest is for writers who are relatively new to paid or incoming-earning publication of speculative short fiction in English.

Eligibility:

• You have published a total of less than 4,000 words of paid or income-earning speculative fiction in English.

• You have earned a total of less than USD 320 from those words.

• You have never been nominated for any award listed here as a major award in speculative fiction.

• You are not a previous winner of the Dream Foundry writing contest.

• No AI, machine learning, or large language model tools were used in the story except for checking spelling and grammar.

Compensation: 400 - 1,500 USD

Submissions Due: June 2nd

Info + Submissions: HERE

Wallstrait

A Journal of Hard-to-Define Fiction

We welcome flash fiction, longer stories, hybrid, and experimental stuff you can't quite define. We publish a new story every two weeks. Help us keep our readers on their toes.

• No limitations on genre. Just send us your best fiction. See our home page for a weirdly detailed example of the many genres we'll consider. But then again, the whole point of that list is that we'll consider pretty much anything.

Compensation: 25 USD via Paypal

Submissions Due: June 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

​BBC World Service & British Council International Audio Drama Competition 2026

Writers from around the world are invited to submit their scripts for the 29th International Audio Drama Competition.

** This unique opportunity is for writers from outside the UK to use the medium of audio drama to tell stories for an international audience.**

To enter, you’ll need to complete the form (linked below) and supply us with:

• The script for your 40-50 minute audio drama with up to six central characters. This should be submitted as a PDF file

• A written synopsis outlining the complete story of your audio drama. This should be no more than 400 words long and submitted as a PDF file.

Compensation: Cash prize of 2,500 Pounds + An invitation to attend an award ceremony in the UK in 2026, and to participate in the recording of their dramas for a world premiere on BBC World Service platforms.

• Flight and accommodation expenses are covered by the BBC.

• A Special Commendation will be made for the runner-up in honour of the BBC World Service journalist and writer Georgi Markov (1929-1978).

  Submissions Due: June 4th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Richard J. Margolis Award

For nonfiction writers of social-justice journalism

• The award is designed to help developing journalists make progress on non-fiction writing projects that reflect important social values.

• Submitted samples should all be non-fiction pieces that give a clear indication of the applicant's ability to write well and apply journalistic skills effectively.

Compensation: $5,000 + residency at Blue Mountain Centre artists’ colony; $1,000 for runners-up.

Submissions Due: July 1st

​Submit To: All materials may be emailed as PDF files (preferred!) to award@margolis.com.

Please name all files starting with your last name (e.g., Smith-cover letter+description.pdf, Smith-writing sample.pdf, etc.).

Info: HERE

Zombies Need Brains: Skull x Bones Anthology

In SKULL X BONES, we want writers to give us their best science fiction or fantasy pirates, whether they be on the sailing ships of the deep wide ocean or the spaceships of the black void!

Word count: up to 7500 words. No exceptions.

Compensation: $0.08/word + Stories will be published in the SKULL X BONES anthology by December 2025

+ Royalties on additional sales of the anthology will be 25% of ebook cover price and 10% of trade paperback cover price, both split evenly (not by word count) among the authors in and editors of the anthology.

Submissions Due: June 30th

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Six Foot Platform (Brooklyn)

Presenting work by Brooklyn-based artists on a 6x6 platform at the intersection of Washington and Water Streets in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

The work, whether performative or sculptural, must be contained within the 6x6 footprint. You may make use of the cross beams for hanging work/materials, but they are not strong enough to support a person. Performers who are waiting ‘on deck’ can be off the platform, on the street/sidewalk.

Note, the platform does not have walls.

Compensation: 1,250 USD

Submissions Due: June 16th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Larch Creative Fund Grants (Georgia)

Seeking Project Proposals for innovative projects that encourage creative and critical thinking through the arts, with a focus on having fun and encouraging community participation and related activities.

Individual artists, collaborations, and nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to projects that:

• Engage or involve the broader public and encourage social engagement

• Are free and accessible to a diverse audience

• Are new projects to the artist or organization submitting the proposal.

Compensation: $50,000 in grants will be awarded and distributed amongst the funded artists or organizations. Grant funding amounts will be awarded commensurate with the project scope and impact.

Proposals Due: June 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Architectural League (New York)

Independent Project Grants

Awarding grants for proposals in design fields: including architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, biodesign, community-centered design, fashion, graphic, industrial, and interior design.

• Projects might create a design prototype, develop new strategies of community-based design, research a topic in design history, or engage in critical or theoretical analysis, to name just some of the many possible approaches.

Compensation: 10,000

Submissions Due: June 4th

Info + Submissions: HERE

92nd Street New York

A Non-profit Accelerator

UpTide will serve a cohort of five nonprofit leaders (Executive Directors / Presidents / CEOs) from diverse, community-building organizations looking to significantly scale the impact of their programs.

• Must be a U.S.-based nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in good standing.

Compensation: $5,000 + Week in New York City with programming, time for partner meetings, and Showcase Day (flights, hotel, and most meals will be paid for by UpTide) + Workshops + Mentorship

Applications Due: June 2nd

Info + Submissions: HERE

Department of Cultural Affairs & the Mayor's Public Engagement Unit (NYC)

Public Artists in Residence

PAIR is based on the premise that artists are creative problem-solvers. They are able to create long-term and lasting impact by working collaboratively and in open-ended processes to build community bonds, open channels for two-way dialogue, and reimagine realities to create new possibilities for those who experience and participate in the work.

Seeking: (3) artists to join the Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) program in 2025. One (1) selected artist will be placed in residence with each of the following City agencies/offices: Office of Housing Recovery Operations, Small Business Services, and the Mayor's Public Engagement Unit.

Compensation: $40,000: $20,000 for the Research Phase and $20,000 for the Implementation Phase.

• A desk at the partner agency, with office access based on regular building hours

• Access to materials/supplies at DCLA’s Materials for the Arts

  Note: All funds are paid directly to the artist, who is responsible for managing their own project budgets and submitting invoices on a timely basis.

Submissions Due: June 30th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Artist Trust (Washington)

Grants for Artist Projects

An unrestricted project-based grant awarded to 65 artists working in all disciplines across Washington State.

• Funding may be used for but not limited to artist fees, materials, equipment, space rental, travel for research, documentation, professional development opportunities, marketing and promotion, support to continue a current project, support to start a new project, and many other needs related to your project.

Compensation: 1,500

Submissions Due: June 23rd

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Poetry Coalition (US Based)

2025–26 Fellowship Program

Open to individuals interested in literary arts nonprofit work and offering hands-on experience in fundraising, programming, and editorial projects.

These paid, part-time fellowship opportunities are available at eight host organizations across the country.

• To apply to a specific host organization, or find out more about them check out the links below.

  • Asian American Writers' Workshop: aaww.org/about-us/opportunities/2025-26-poetry-coalition-fellow

  • Beyond Baroque: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/PoetryCoalitionFellowship.html

  • Kundiman: kundiman.org/jobs

  • Lambda Literary: lambdaliterary.org/2025/05/now-hiring-poetry-coalition-fellow

  • Mizna: https://mizna.org/mizna-news/literary-mizna-news/fellowship-opportunity-2/

  • Poetry Society of America: https://poetrysociety.org/about/news/poetry-society-of-america-poetry-coalition-fellowship

  • Youth Speaks: youthspeaks.org

  • Woodland Pattern: https://woodlandpattern.org/opportunities

Compensation: $20,000 stipend, plus an additional $1,100 health care allowance.

Submissions Due: July 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Lee & Low Books: New Voices Award

This award is for writers of color and Native nations who are residents of the US, and have not previously had a children’s picture book published.

The work should address the needs of children of color and Native nations, aged 5-12, by providing stories with which they can identify and relate, and which promote a greater understanding of one another. Themes relating to non-traditional family structures, gender identity, or disabilities may also be included.

• Manuscripts can be fiction, narrative non-fiction or poetry. Only stories with human protagonists will be considered.

Compensation: $5,000 advance + mentorship

Submissions Due: June 30th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Midnight & Indigo

Seeking: Black Women writers passionate about crafting beautifully written, character-driven short stories.

Send us your previously unpublished short stories that capture the essence of the human experience.

Literary fiction delves deep into the human condition, exploring themes of identity, relationships, and the intricate nuances of everyday life. These stories should resonate emotionally, offering readers a window into the world’s complexities and the richness of personal experiences.

Guidelines:

• Word count: Minimum: 1,500. Max: 7,000

• Submissions should be submitted in proper short story manuscript format with your name, email address, and the story’s total word count on the first page.

  Note: Please see their listing for full guidelines

Compensation: Our rate is $0.07 per word for Short Stories. + Publication on their digital platform and tri-annual literary journals.

Submissions Due: June 30th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Blessing and Boats Selections

Spotlights poetry collections by women of color

• named after Lucille Clifton’s National Book Award-winning collection, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems (BOA, 2000), in honor and celebration of her enduring legacy. Lucille Clifton's writings of Black life and Black female life have shaped a sense of what is possible for so many.

Submit you manuscripts: Minimum of 65 pages of poetry (not including Table of Contents, Acknowledgments, etc.), and maximum of 120 pages of poetry.

(Please check full requirements)

Compensation: 2,500 Honorarium + Book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in Fall 2027

Submissions Due: July 14th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Singapore Unbound

SUSPECT: Of the Sea

We are particularly interested in indigenous voices but we welcome non-indigenous authors who have engaged in a significant and sustained manner with maritime Southeast Asian communities.

• They are now reading submissions for their special fiction (including flash) and poetry folio, and the theme is ‘Of the Sea’. “This August, SUSPECT will publish a special portfolio dedicated to indigenous perspectives on the region designated as maritime Southeast Asia.

• We invite the submission of fiction and poetry that explore the manifold effects of the sea on individuals and communities.

  Compensation: 100 USD

Submissions Due: June 15th

Submit to: Sharmini Aphrodite at suspect@singaporeunbound.org

More Info: HERE

Singapore Unbound

Gaudy Boy Open Call for Novel Manuscripts

A New York City -based independent press that publishes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by extraordinary Asian voices, is open to submissions of unpublished adult novels by authors of Asian heritage residing anywhere in the world.

Compensation: Each author will receive book publication and an advance of USD 1,500.

To Submit: Send the first 30 pages of your novel manuscript and a cover letter to our Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Jee Leong Koh, at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org.

Submissions Due: July 31st

Info: HERE

Artifice & Access

Seeking Anthology Submissions from Disabled writers

Anthology Theme: Disability in Dystopia

How do we improvise and adapt to world-changing circumstances? How do we survive in times of hardship and deep, humanity-challenging inequity? When the world is falling apart, how do we come together? Where do we fit in the revolution?

Many disabled people are used to fighting for survival, and the disability community is often at the forefront of emergency preparedness, mutual aid, contingency planning, and community interconnectedness. We know what it’s like to have to fight to survive oppressive systems that tell everyone we’re “better off dead”.

How do we survive in your dystopia?

This theme can be interpreted any way you like, and your story can be speculative, sci-fi, fantasy—the list goes on. Have fun with it!

** Check out the Guidelines before submitting **

Compensation: 100AUD (Australian dollars) through Paypal

Submissions Due: June 20th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise

Creative Prize for Fashion, Design and Culture (for Immigrants 38 and under)

Including the following Categories:

Designers including textile + Environmental and Technology Designers + Material Innovation + Makeup Artists / Hair Stylist Writers and Researchers + Curators and Museum Professionals + Stylists + Image Makers

Eligibility:

• You were born outside the United States to non-American parents.

• You are not more than 38 years old.

• You have 5 years of professional experience in related fields

Compensation: $50,000 + endorsement from leaders in your field + a comprehensive public relations campaign to promote you and your work.

Submissions Due: June 9th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Stony Brook University

Undergraduate Short Fiction Prize

Eligibility: Undergraduates enrolled full time in United States and Canadian universities and colleges for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Compensation: $1,000 and a scholarship to the 2025 Southampton Writers Conference Additionally, the winning story will automatically be considered for publication in TSR: The Southampton Review.

Submissions Due: July 14th

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Norton Writer’s Prize

This is a non-fiction prize for undergraduates in the US.

They will accept literacy narratives, literary and other textual analyses, reports, profiles, evaluations, arguments, memoirs, proposals, multimodal pieces, and other forms of original non-fiction pieces of 1,000-3,000 words.

Compensation: 1000 USD

Submissions Due: June 15th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Green Linden Press

The Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship

Gives an editor the resources and assistance to bring an anthology into the world. Green Linden Press intends to tailor the Fellowship to the editor of the selected project: so previous editorial experience is not required, and those with editorial experience are encouraged to apply.

• The Essential Voices Anthology Series has at its heart the ancient idea that poetry can reveal our shared humanity. It intends to make less insular the various poetries of the world and to correct misrepresentations and misunderstandings in the broader culture. In other words, to go where the silence is and let the poets speak. We believe that a good anthology not only captures the zeitgeist, it can help shape it.

Compensation: 2500 USD

Submissions Due: July 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Pen America / Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History

This grant will recognize literary works of nonfiction that use oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement.

Eligibility:

• The submitted project must be the work of a single individual, written in English.

• The project must be an unpublished work-in-progress that will not be published prior to April 1, 2026, as the grants are intended to support the completion of a manuscript.

• The project must be a work of literary nonfiction.

• Oral history must be a significant component of the project and its research.

Submissions Due: June 1st

Compensation: 15,000

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Ex-Puritan Magazine

Seeking submissions in the following categories;

• Fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, reviews, and experimental/hybrid work.

• To submit to the experimental/hybrid section of the magazine, please email our section editors at hybrid.experimental@ex-puritan.ca

Compensation:

$100/ 72.41 USD per interview

$200/ 144.81 USD per essay

$100 per review

$150/ 108.61 USD per work of fiction

$50/ 36.20 USD per poem, or $100 per poet if multiple poems are accepted

$50+ per experimental or hybrid work, at an increasing scale depending on the nature of the piece

Note: We ONLY issue payments using e-transfer, PayPal or a cheque in the mail. We also pay in CAD. If you cannot accept payment via e-transfer, PayPal or cheque from a Canadian bank, we cannot accept your submission.

Submissions Due: Accepted on a Rolling Basis (Entries received before June 25th are considered for the August Issue)

Info + Submissions: HERE

Pen America

Bare Life Review Grants

Supporting literary works in progress by immigrant and refugee writers, recognizing that the literature of migration is of inherent and manifest value.

• The project must be a work of a literary nature: fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry.

• The project must be an unpublished work-in-progress that will not be published prior to April 1, 2026, as the grants are intended to support the completion of a manuscript.

• This grant is available to foreign-born writers based in the U.S., and to writers living abroad who hold refugee/asylum seeker status.

Compensation: 5,000

Submissions Due: June 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

The FSG Writer’s Fellowship

A program designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing: funding, editorial guidance, and advice on how to forge a writing career.

• Offers the unique opportunity for a writer to spend time with and enjoy the support and mentorship of the FSG community.

• The fellowship celebrates the spirit of the FSG list and its commitment to invention, curiosity, and extending the limits of literature.

Submissions Due: July 7th

Compensation: $15,000 paid over two installments: half paid at the start of the Fellowship program, half paid in June 2025

Plus:

• Mentorship with an FSG house author

• Guidance from two in-house editors, who will offer line and structural feedback on the fellow’s work throughout the year

• Opportunities for meet-and-greets with representatives from other departments – including Publicity/Marketing, Art, Subsidiary Rights, and Managing Editorial – to discuss their areas of expertise, answer questions, and help build a broader understanding of the publishing business

• Support with networking beyond FSG

• The Fellow and finalists will receive a collection of FSG classics.

Note: The applicant must be a U.S. Permanent Resident (green card) or U.S. Citizen

Info + Submissions: HERE

The Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award

The Award is open to playwrights and screenwriters who live in New York State, including those who live within the five boroughs of New York City.

** Work samples are a representation of your artistic work created within the last five years. This is the most important part of your application, as it will be the primary point of review.**

Compensation: 8,000 USD

Submissions Due: June 15th

Info + Submissions: HERE

Artist Trust (Washington State)

Funding available for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers.

Funding may be used for but not limited to artist fees, materials, equipment, space rental, travel for research, documentation, professional development opportunities, marketing and promotion, support to continue a current project, support to start a new project, and many other needs related to your project.

Compensation: 1,500

Submissions Due: June 23rd

Info + Submissions: HERE

Spruill Center for the Arts (Georgia)

The Larch Creative Fund

Seeking project proposals for innovative projects that encourage creative and critical thinking through the arts, with a focus on having fun and encouraging community participation and related activities.

Individual artists, collaborations, and nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to projects that:

• Engage or involve the broader public and encourage social engagement

• Are free and accessible to a diverse audience

• Are new projects to the artist or organization submitting the proposal.

Compensation: Depends on the needs for the project (Up to 50,000 in funding available)

Submissions Due: June 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Leeway Organization (Philadelphia)

Art and Change Grant

Providing grants to fund art for social change projects by women, trans*, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers.

** Creating social change must be integral to the ideas, beliefs, and goals that are woven throughout your art and your process of creating and sharing your art. **

Note: They offer help with applications » for a one-on-one appointment contact via info@leeway.org or 215.545.4078

Compensation: Based on application

Submissions Due: August 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

2025 Theatre Production Awards (California)

This fund is for the creation and development of new theater productions by California writers, playwrights, spoken word artists, and theater-makers.

• The new works will be commissioned and produced by Bay Area nonprofit artist-centered organizations with annual budget sizes of $60K to $3M

Compensation: Up to 50,000 USD

Submissions Due: June 18th, 4PM PST

Info + Submissions: HERE

Artadia (San Francisco Bay Area)

The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.

** Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context: museum, galleries, arts non-profit, the public art realm, etc. **

Compensation: 15,000 - 25,000

Submissions Due: June 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Inhale/Exhale: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling

( Canada Based)

The Malahat Review invites emerging and early- to mid-career Indigenous writers—that is, anyone with no more than one published book in any literary genre—to submit as yet unpublished work (fiction, creative nonfiction, poems) for possible inclusion in a special issue dedicated to contemporary Indigenous storytelling in Canada.

• The magazine also invites emerging and early- to mid-career Indigenous artists to submit visual work for the front cover and some inside pages. As well, the issue will feature reviews of new and recent books by Indigenous authors

Note: “non-Canadians” with close connections to Canada (currently imposed political boundaries do not necessarily coincide with Indigenous people’s own sense of place, so “non-Canadian” Indigenous writers with close connections to Indigenous communities within “Canada” are also welcome to submit their work—or to send a query about submission to malahateditor@uvic.ca).

Compensation:

$70 CAD per printed page in the magazine

$375 CAD for cover art—plus a one-year print subscription starting with the issue after the one in which the accepted work has appeared. Each contributor will receive two copies of the issue in which the accepted work has appeared and is eligible to buy further copies at a discounted rate.

Submissions Due: June 2nd

Info + Submissions: HERE

Riddle Fence Publishing Inc ( Canada Based)

Fiction, Poetry and Visual Art Contest

Guidelines:

• One short-fiction submission is one story, maximum 5000 words

• One poetry submission is up to 3 poems; no more than 100 lines per poem

• One visual art submission is one piece of artwork.

• For visual art submissions, please also include any necessary information about the work in a separate file (medium, materials, etc.)

Note: There is an entry fee of $29, this fee is waved for BIPOC

Compensation: $1000 GRAND PRIZE + Winners and honourable mentions will be published in Riddle Fence #56.

Submissions Due: July 1st

Info + Submissions: HERE

Upstart & Crow (Canada Based)

Poetry Micro-Grants

This initiative is designed for emerging poets in the early stages of their literary careers — those who have not yet published a full-length collection, but who demonstrate a serious commitment to their craft.

Note: Successful applications will include a portfolio of poems that demonstrate a unique and compelling voice, commitment to creative practice, and a sense of the poet’s style and aim.

Submissions Due: June 2 at 11 p.m. PST.

Compensation: $500 + the opportunity to have your work printed, displayed and distributed through Upstart & Crow.

Info + Submissions: HERE

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Until next month, friends!