April Opportunity List
Featuring arts festivals, literary mag calls for submissions, editorial fellowships and a big money writers residency +++
Hey everyone,
Happy April! Just a lil’ note that I’ll be switching things up as the weeks go by. A new look is on the way + additional tools to assist you in expanding your writing practices.
THANK YOU for your continued support. Your comments, shares and subscriptions continue to ensure accessible resources for all <3
Much love,
K
*** INTERNATIONAL ENTRIES WELCOMED ***
Strange Horizons
Afrosurrealism Special Issue (Open to writers of African descent)
The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
For this special issue, we are looking for:
Worlds that slip between the mundane and the uncanny, the ghostly and the futuristic.
Worlds rich with history and spirit striving to manifest—whether set in the past, present, or futures unknown.
Tales of hauntings, doppelgängers, liminal spaces, memories, and places that don’t stay put.
Give us your tales of portals that lead to nowhere, of cities that rearrange themselves overnight, of people becoming someone—or something—else.
Narratives that challenge traditional structures and defy linear storytelling.
Works that experiment with or reimagine genres like sword & soul, jujuism, cyberfunk, or Black gothic horror.
Visions of power, freedom, and transformation shaped by the Black experience where Blackness itself is a force that bends time, space, and destiny.
Send us your myths. Your nightmares. Your dreams wrapped in ancestral magics and spirit.
Compensation:
Poetry: $50 per poem
Fiction: 10 cents per word
Nonfiction: $150
Submissions Due: April 30th
Info + Submissions: HERE
C& Magazine
This year, the C& team seeks pitches and texts that embrace contradictions, intersectionality and antidisciplinary approaches. We are interested in approaches that pull from a range of timelines and perspectives for example Black Feminist thought, independent practices, aesthetics, and beyond.
Themes:
ART IN CRISIS
• Shift in political climate, the polycrisis, and its effects on art world
• Alternative spaces and practical tools to move forward
MOVING IMAGE / C& CINEMA + FILM CLUB
• Critical reviews on cinema and moving image practices
• Film events, festivals, film clubs and exhibitions
GATHERING PLACES / POSTCARDS:
• Biennales, studio visits, exhibitions, collectives
• Art week / city guides: resources for art travellers
• Mapping out institutions and independent spaces across Africa + the Diaspora
CONVERSATIONS WITH ELDERS:
• Citational practices: sampling, call-and-response, written records vs oral traditions
• An archive of intergenerational knowledge and perspectives
• Examples: (re)defining indigeneity, conversations with scholars, grandparents, community leaders etc
NEW MEDIA / CREATIVE TECH:
• New Media: digital media, immersive installations, virtual reality, computer generated, etc
• Art and tech: ancestral technologies and bringing histories forward
• Example: The internet and cyberspace as a site of dis/connections
MATERIAL CULTURE:
• Beyond restitution: deep dives on artisanal practices / cultural heritage
Compensation: $$ (Paid, amount unstated)
** All texts will be published in English and French and will be handled by C&. Writers' agreements and invoices will be processed accordingly.**
Submissions Due: Accepting on a rolling basis
Please send a short pitch (200-300 words) and a brief bio to tsigmund@contemporaryand.com
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
Faoileánach Journal by
Seeking Submissions for Issue One, Little Constellations
Have you ever been stargazing at the ocean, looking for those small constellations you cannot find in the city? Perhaps you have been stopped in your tracks while driving through rural Mississippi only to realize that what you’re seeing outside your window is the Milky Way. Have you ever named all Seven Sisters of The Pleiades from rolling farmland in a sleepy, rugged town? Perhaps you have heard constellations used in other ways. Maybe in the medical field, public safety, or social work. Constellations are what connect us and are what have connected us for thousands of years. We look to the stars for guidance, like sailors in the night. What are your little constellations? What are the little connections that keep you looking at the sky but tethered to the Earth?
We would love to know.
Submissions Due: April 30th
Compensation: 100 USD
Info + Submissions: HERE
Contemporary Arts Street
Itchy Fingers – A Writing Residency on Art Books
This unique residency invites a writer to explore the tactility of art books – their delicate presence, the challenges of delivering them to eager hands, and their power to metaphorically or literally move the world.
Compensation:
(1 Norwegian Krone equals 0.095 United States Dollar)
20,000 NOK honorarium
Up to 5,000 NOK in travel costs
Free accommodation
Per diem (105 NOK per day)
Free use of Stavanger Library and Culture Centre's writing room (Skrivestuen) for the duration of the stay
Festival pass for the Kapittel, Stavanger International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech
Introductions to local art institutions and individuals
Submissions Due: April 11th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Trans Survivors: Healing in Action
Seeking: Works for their Digital Zine
We welcome content that focuses on trans voices, survivorship and healing from harm/trauma/violence, creative expressions of all kinds. We welcome your full range of emotions and expressions. We encourage content focused on race and anti-racism; bodies and disabilities; class, housing, survival realities; and content that focuses or encompasses our complex, intersectional lives.
We welcome a variety of art forms, including visual art, poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction (fiction/nonfiction under 1000 words)
Submissions Due: April 15th
Compensation: $25
Info + Submissions: HERE
Fiyah Literary Magazine
Seeking: Poetry and Prose Submissions
Theme: BLACK ISEKAI (aka Waking Up in Another World)
Imagine you’re crossing the street when WHAM! A delivery truck hits you and you wake up in another world. Or maybe you’re gaming at home and get physically transported into a boss fight? Although the isekai genre dominates Japanese popular culture today, there’s usually one thing missing from these stories: Black people. Here’s your chance to explore what escapism, reincarnation, portal quests, and second chances looks like for us. Go forth and recreate your destinies today!
Compensation:
Short stories (2,000 – 7,000 words): 0.08/word
Novelettes (<15,000 words): 0.08/word
Poetry: $50 USD
Nonfiction: 0.10/word
Submissions Due: April 30th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Food & Feeling Zine
Issue II: Cake & Celebration
How do we celebrate? What role does food—especially cake—play in marking the moments that matter? For Issue II of Food & Feeling, we’re exploring Cake & Celebration—the traditions, the personal stories, the unexpected rituals, and the moments that might not involve cake at all.
We’re looking for submissions that are personal, thoughtful, and deeply connected to your lived experience.
Submissions Due: May 1st
Compensation: Up to $20
augury anthology by
We are now accepting submissions for a printed anthology titled augury: prayers, plans, & prophecy.
For: Black writers of all backgrounds
diasporic (from Oakland to Havana to Addis Ababa)
gender expansive
multigenerational
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Compensation: Physical Copy of the Book
Submissions Due: April 6th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Tate Papers 37: Mother Lines
Tate Papers is seeking contributions for a special issue exploring transgenerational connections and ancestral knowledge in art.
Submissions may explore themes of matrilineage, rematriation and interconnected transnational histories.
Reflecting the museum’s wider programme, the issue will focus on artists who are centring modes of embodied and ancestral knowledge primarily passed on through women.
Eligibility: Emerging and established art historians, arts professionals and artists
Compensation: Publication opportunity
Submissions: tatepapers@tate.org.uk
More Info: HERE
Sundress Publications
Seeking: Microgrant Applications
For Black and/or Indigenous writers with a chapbook in progress.
Submissions Due: April 15
Compensation: $500 USD + a one-week residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN, and the potential for digital publication to one Black and/or Indigenous writer with a chapbook in progress to support the completion of said project.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Sundress Publications
Chapbook Contest
We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work, as well as visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works.
Manuscripts must be between twelve to twenty-six (12-26) pages in length, with a page break between individual pieces.
Previously published individual pieces are allowed as long as they have not appeared in a full-length collection, including self-published books.
** There is an entry fee of $10 per manuscript, though this fee will be waived for writers of color and entrants who purchase or pre-order any Sundress title.
Compensation: $250 USD and publication as a full-color PDF available exclusively online. The editor’s choice selection will receive $150 and publication, and runners-up may also be considered for publication.
Submissions Due: May 31st
Info + Submissions: HERE
Literary Liberation
Our mission is to support writers in decolonizing their craft, their relationships with community, and their ways of being. We seek work that pushes beyond conventional boundaries, honors ancestral wisdom, and contributes to our collective liberation. We are particularly drawn to submissions that explore how writing can be a tool for social change, community healing, and the dismantling of oppressive systems.
We accept work from anyone, but give priority to writers of the Global majority, especially those at the intersection of any marginalized/erased identity markers within that community, including but not limited to disability, gender expansive, LGBTQIA+, immigrant, refugee, Indigenous, working class, neurodivergent, and religious minority identities.
Themes (check the link below for the full list):
Essays on writing as resistance and the role of literature in social movements
Analyses of how ancestral storytelling traditions inform modern liberation writing
Documentation of grassroots literary initiatives and community-based writing programs
Critical essays on linguistic justice and language reclamation in writing
Explorations of radical publishing models and alternative distribution networks around the world’
Compensation: $$ Paid (Unstated)
Info + Submissions: HERE
Submissions Due: Accepted on a Rolling Basis
Center for Afrofuturist Studies
Seeking: Artist-In-Residence
Artists-in-residence are housed in a large private apartment at Public Space One (PS1)’s repurposed 19th-century house near downtown Iowa City, IA – a building that also houses the CAS reading room, PS1’s busy gallery and performance space, artist studios, and community organizations.
Residents have access to resources that include the CAS reading room collection, PS1’s community print/book and media studios and outdoor spaces, and community connections fostered by the CAS team before, during, and after their residency.
Artists are also encouraged to share their work with the community via a youth workshop and/or public programs.
Compensation: A fully-funded visiting artist residency, complete with studio, materials budget, honorarium, travel & lodging.
Submissions Due: April 30th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre
Call for Proposals: Neutral Ground Window Gallery
Exhibition Season: 2025-2026
Neutral Ground values lived experiences and non-western ways of knowing and being, as powerful sources of knowledge.
Neutral Ground is committed to promoting, exhibiting and presenting the work of systemically underrepresented.
Artists are primarily responsible for the installation of their work. Neutral Ground assists with installation and access to basic materials for the installation of works. Please note that as the window gallery is enclosed with glass on both long sides, works installed in this space should consider their visibility from all directions.
To prevent barriers in our call for proposals, Neutral Ground will also happily accept exhibition proposals in alternative formats including audio or video submissions. Please contact Director/Curator, Emily Nestor (program@neutralground.sk.ca) to arrange for accommodations.
Compensation: 494 - 514 CAD (according to CARFAC, A.1.1.1, Cat 1)
Proposals Due: May 1st
Info + Submissions: HERE
COAL PRIZE 2025: Freshwater
CALL FOR PROJECTS that fight against the drying up of our sensitivities towards WATER, to elevate it to its rightful place at the heart of general attention, to rehabilitate it in its symbolic and sacred prerogatives, to consider it as the ally and partner of our existences.
Compensation: 12,000 euros + a creative residency at the heart of the Domaine de Belval, owned by the François Sommer Foundation, led by the scientific and educational teams of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and the Domaine de Belval.
Submissions Due: April 20th
Info + Submissions: HERE
InterAccess
Vector Festival 2025
The 12th edition of Vector Festival, 404_not_found, will resurface our forgotten realities of the 1:1 relationship between digital representations of the physical.
If we held close the understanding that our digital memories had physical footprints – motherboards that can corrode or servers that require maintenance – would we still expect immortality from the web? How can we build websites that are meant to decay, perennial files, or computers that are only awake with the sun? Can our machines teach us to celebrate impermanence?
We invite submissions of new media artworks for the following festival programs:
Flagship Exhibition
New media artworks for consideration in our flagship, on-site exhibition, curated by Dallas Fellini.
Vector Festival 2025’s flagship exhibition questions notions of permanence associated with the web, considering how we might come to terms with the broken archival promises of digital media or begin to understand decay as a distinct but equal counterpart to growth. We invite artists working in new media to submit work engaging with digital decay, impermanence, the anti-archival, and the ephemeral qualities of digital memory.
Workshops
Proposals for online and in-person workshops teaching emerging and experimental approaches in new media and game art.
Game Art Residency: random access memories
Artist applications to take part in a game jam residency, supported by curator Bracy Appeikumoh. Residency starts during Toronto Games week (June 13 – 20) continues with workshop and thematic support for game development, ending in an exhibition opportunity during the festival.
This program is co-presented with Toronto Games Week, Hand Eye Society, and The Centre for Culture and Technology.
Community Programming
Proposals for community, grassroots, and DIY programming aligned with the festival theme.
AR Multi-Site Exhibition
Digital 3D artworks for a multi-site augmented reality street installation.
Window Activation
New media artworks for installation in street-facing windows.
Screening
Time-based video, film, and moving image works for screening consideration.
Performance
Live performance proposals including, but not limited to: live coding, experimental sound art, dance, etc.
Outside the Box
Any proposals that do not fit within the above programs.
Please note each festival program listed above has a separate application form with specific submission requirements.
Submissions Due: April 7th
Compensation: All artists selected for participation will receive fees in accordance with CARFAC and IMAA fee schedules, as well as support to apply for external funding.
Info + Submissions: HERE
** US BASED **
Economic Hardship Reporting Project (For Journalists)
A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that produces compelling journalism on economic inequality in America. We give grants to independent journalists reporting on issues related to poverty, economic class, workers’ rights, and income disparity in the U.S., and co-publish their work in partnership with major media outlets.
Standard Grants: Select this option if you are a journalist seeking grant funding for a news story, narrative feature, investigative report, documentary, nonfiction comic or illustrated work, photo essay, podcast or radio feature.
Compensation: 500 - 4000 USD
Book Grants: Select this option if you are a journalist seeking grant funding for a book project.
Compensation: 1,000 - 5,000 USD
Personal Essay / Op-Eds: Select this option if you are a journalist seeking grant funding for a completed or close-to-completed personal essay or op-ed.
Compensation: 750–1,500 USD
Travel Grants: Select this option if you are a journalist seeking grant funding for project-related travel
Compensation: Up to 2,000 USD
Partner Collaborations: Select this option if you represent a publication or organization that is interested in collaborating with EHRP on a larger co-publishing project such as developing a podcast, producing a larger series, co-hosting events or something else.
Submissions Due: Accepted on a Rolling Basis
Info + Submissions: HERE
** US BASED BY REGION **
Center for Afrofuturist Studies (Iowa City)
Keyholder Residency
For local community activators, who want to use our resources to do socially-engaged work!
The CAS Reading Room is a peaceful space, perfect for diving into the collections, working on projects, or gathering in small groups.
The ideal CAS Keyholder is an individual or collective looking for a low-key, programmable space and a community of curious minds.
There is no required community engagement, but we are interested in people who want to fill the space with life.
We ask that Keyholders commit to hosting open hours in the Reading Room at least once per month.
Compensation: materials budget, local support, and 24/7 access to the CAS library/reading room
Submissions Due: April 30th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Black Image Center (California)
Coast In Colour Residency
For Black photographers in Los Angeles to have the opportunity to explore the intersection of nature photography and environmental activism, while addressing the historic exclusion of Black communities from coastal spaces.
Compensation:
Coastal access stipend
Professional training
Access to water housing
Networking opportunities with experts in coastal health, nature based photography, and activism.
Eligibility:
Must be 18+ and based in Southern California
Submissions Due: April 5th
Info + Submissions: HERE
*** SUBSTACK COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ***
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Collect and Recover + The Institute of Public Scholarship by
"A Black Artist's Retreat" (for diasporic artists of all mediums)
Run by 3 Grassroots Black-women-owned organizations/businesses *
What’s Included:
Lodging in a cozy, intentional space
Chef-prepared meals (Friday BBQ, sunset beach dinner, Sunday brunch & more)
Wellness activities (sound baths, massage, guided stretches)
1 offsite group adventure (a surprise to spark creativity)
Airport transportation (for stress-free travel)
All services & gratuity (no hidden costs)
Why This Matters:
This isn’t just a getaway—it’s a sacred container for Black artists to:
Rest deeply (without guilt or distraction)
Create freely (in a space designed for your energy)
Connect authentically (with a circle of just 10 artists)
** They are also seeking sponsors for artists, crowdfunders, and potential fiscal sponsors for the retreat
Sponsorship Deck: HERE
Info on lodging, activities, meals and more: HERE
Registration Closes: May 1st
Cost: $550 total (payment plans available + options for financial aid!)
Registration: HERE
Literary Liberation by
Writing with the Lights On: Drop-in sessions
A 12-week journey into expressive writing and self-discovery. This circle is open exclusively to members of the global majority, with preference to queer and trans members. Applying for this circle is mandatory.
This space is intentionally designed for writers of color with a deep commitment to centering queer and trans voices. Here, we write together in silence, not to be judged or analyzed, but to honor the power of our words as they emerge. We root ourselves in grounding practices, lean into thoughtfully crafted prompts, and hold space for each other in a way that feels safe, intimate, and freeing.
Cost: Drop-in Sessions: $15 / $25 / $35 (single payment per session; co-writing only)
** If you need a payment plan, email directly at hello@literaryliberation.net with Writing with The Light On Payment Plan as the subject.**
* * * CANADA BASED * * *
Trinity Square Video (Toronto)
Artist Residency
Offering artists the opportunity to explore, reflect, and create work that engages with the concept of cultural resilience—how communities, traditions, and identities adapt, survive, and thrive in the face of challenges.
We invite artists working in video, film, new media and interdisciplinary practices to apply for this transformative residency. Whether examining historical narratives, contemporary struggles, or future possibilities this residency provides the time, space, and resources to deepen your practice and continue to contribute to meaningful conversations about cultural resilience.
Compensation:
Stipend: a financial stipend to support your residency and project development
Exhibition opportunity: a public presentation or exhibition of your work at the end of The Residency
Professional development: workshops critiques and mentorship opportunities to enhance your autistic practice
Community engagement: opportunities to connect with other artists curators and the broader arts community
Submissions Due: April 4th
C& Magazine Art
Submit to the 16th Annual C New Critics Award
Designed to help identify, develop, and promote the work of emerging art critics, and to encourage creative discourse on current art practices.
Writers are invited to submit an 800-1,000 word review of a recent exhibition, performance, publication, or moving image work.
Eligibility: Open to anyone residing in Canada, regardless of citizenship status, and to Canadians living abroad.
Compensation: 750 + editorial support to prepare their article for publication in a future issue of C Magazine, and a two-year subscription.
Submissions Due: May 30th
Info + Submissions: HERE
* * * UK BASED * * *
The White Pube Creatives Grant
This grant has been set up to support creatives of all ages who are early in their careers and would benefit from this no-strings attached financial support to help them in whatever they like - be that money to cover time to make, or money to fund materials, equipment, research, subscriptions, development, travel, or even rent and bills. The grant is open to anybody who makes stuff. Art, writing, performance, sound, music, craft, comedy, games, whatever you want to throw at us.
Give us a brief introduction to yourself, contact information and an example of your work.
Compensation: 500
Submissions Due: Accepted on Rolling Basis
Submit To: funding@thewhitepube.com
More Info: HERE
The Authors’ Foundation + K Blundell Trust
Grants for works-in-progress
Eligibility:
You have been commissioned by a commercial British or Irish publisher to write or translate a full-length work of fiction, poetry, or non-fiction and need funding (in addition to any publisher’s advance) for important research, travel, or other general expenditure.
OR
You are without a contractual commitment with a publisher but have had at least one book published commercially by a British or Irish publisher, of which you are the sole author or translator, and there is a strong likelihood that your next book will be published in Britain or Ireland.
Compensation:
Grants from the Authors’ Foundation are usually between £2,000-£3,500.
Grants from the K Blundell Trust up to £6,000 (for British authors under the age of 40 whose work, which can be fiction or non-fiction, and aim to increase social awareness.)
Submissions Due: Rolling
Info + Submissions: HERE
Society of Authors’ Access Fund
Giving authors support for travel, subsistence, childcare, or access needs for events, residencies, and retreats
Grants can be used for:
Travel to events including overnight stays and subsistence.
Childcare and carer support while attending an event, residency, or retreat.
Travel, accommodation, and subsistence for a companion if one is required.
Other access needs such as materials translated into an accessible format.
Compensation: £150 or less, but fair consideration will be given to all proposals.
Submissions Due: Rolling
Info + Submissions: HERE
Strachey Trust Grants
To enable authors to access literary manuscripts
Eligibility: Open to all authors who are UK residents or British citizens, who wish to access UK-based archives/collections.
The author must be working on a specific full-length literary project which has a strong likelihood of publication
Compensation: Up to £500
Submissions Due: On a rolling basis
Info + Submissions: HERE
*** Rollover from March List ***
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Core Residency Program (23 months)
Seeking: Emerging artists and critical writers committed to developing a sustainable practice.
Compensation: $100,000 ($50,000 per year) plus a health stipend and private studio. They also benefit from regular studio visits by regional, national, and international artists and curators.
There are a number of other benefits listed on the website**
Submissions Due: April 1st
Info + Submissions: HERE
**There is a $12 submissions fee, if there is a barrier from this cost contact eldredge@mfah.org.
** Accommodations are offered to 1) participate in the job application or 2) interview process; 3) perform essential residency functions; and/or 4) participate in the benefits and privileges of a fellowship at the MFAH.
If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact the Core Program Coordinator at jeldredge@mfah.org.
Three Penny Review
Accepting: Stories, Poetry, Table- Talk pieces, Memoirs and Critical Articles.
Critical articles should be about 1200 to 2500 words
Table Talk items 1000 words or less
Stories and memoirs 4000 words or less
Poetry 100 lines or less (Exceptions are occasionally possible, but longer pieces will have a much harder time getting accepted.)
We prefer to read prose submissions that are double-spaced; poetry can be single-spaced or double-spaced.
Compensation: 200 - 400 USD
Submissions Open: Jan 1st - April 15th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Creative Nonfiction Grant
Seeking: Ten writers in the process of completing a book-length work of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction for a general adult readership.
** Projects must be under contract with a publisher in Canada, the UK, or the US by April 23 to be eligible. Contracts with self-publishing companies are not eligible.**
We welcome applications for works of history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, science, philosophy, criticism, graphic nonfiction, and personal essays, among other categories.
** The work should be intended for a general, not academic, adult reader **
Compensation: 40,000
Submissions Due: April 23
Info + Submissions: HERE
manywor(l)ds
We welcome submissions by those who identify with and as any of the following descriptors: trans, two-spirit, disabled, neurodivergent, Mad, queer, crip, nonbinary, genderqueer, intersex.
This is a space for the words, works, and worlds of and by those whose bodyminds defy social expectations and invite new ways of thinking and knowing.
We welcome submissions from creators of all ages.
We particularly encourage unpublished/emerging/young creators to submit.
If you know an incarcerated/institutionalized creator who would like to submit, email us for information as to where to mail the submission, or clearly indicate in your message that you are submitting on their behalf.
Compensation: All contributors of unpublished works will receive $10 USD upon publication
Submissions Due: Accepted on a Rolling Basis
Info + Submissions: HERE
Waymark Literary Magazine Submissions
Seeking submissions from undergraduate students from North America (Canada, Mexico, North America, the Caribbean islands) and its affiliated territories.
We publish fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art.
Submissions Due: April 18th
Compensation: Publishing Credit
Info + Submissions: HERE
The Caribbean Digital Virtual Artist’s Residency 2025
This program supports Caribbean artists working in digital media. The residency is offered in conjunction with the annual Caribbean Digital (TCD) conference, an international event hosted annually at locations in the United States and the Caribbean since 2014, and in partnership with Alice Yard, a contemporary art collective based at Granderson Lab in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Compensation: a cash stipend of US$5,000 to support six months of part-time research and creative work, to begin in June 2025;
curatorial mentorship by artist and Alice Yard co-director Christopher Cozier;
two virtual studio visits by professional curators or critics;
the commissioning and online publication of a critical text by a professional art writer to document the artist’s work and process;
arranged travel and accommodation to present the resulting work at
The Caribbean Digital annual conference in December 2025;an installation allowance to cover the cost of the artist’s presentation at TCD.
Submissions Due: April 1st
Info + Submissions: HERE
Carefree Magazine is accepting submissions for 2025 and they want to hear your stories!
“Our mission is to give Black Women space to see themselves reflected in the world, and to show that we aren't a monolith. We are looking for personal essays with strong narratives on life, love, adventure, and everything in-between! Our stories typically run 1000-1700 words long“
Check out our Substack for stories we typically publish.
Please share with your Black womxn writer friends ✨
Submissions Due: Accepting on a rolling basis
Compensation: $$$ (amount unstated) + Publishing with Carefree Magazine
Submit to: hello@carefreemag.com
Check out the detailed call for submissions: HERE
Artist in Residence | Amerind Museum
Seeking Artist in Residence applications from emerging Native American artists (visual, performing & literary artists welcomed).
The selected artists must be in residence at the Amerind Museum for one month at a time.
The artist will be asked to give a public talk about their work and/or hold some open studio hours. While in residence, the artist is welcome to sell their work directly to the public.
Compensation: The selected artist(s) will receive housing, workspace, and a $3,000/month stipend.
Submissions: To apply please go to our website to download application + Email all responses, documents, and other files to ekaldahl@amerind.org.
Submissions Due: Accepted on a Rolling Basis
More Info: HERE
Artadia (NYC) The five Boroughs: Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island
Seeking: Individual artists and collaboratives working in all visual media and at any stage in their career are strongly encouraged to apply.
Eligibility: (check the full list on their submittable page)
Be a contemporary visual artist (making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context: museum, galleries, arts non-profit, the public art realm, etc.
Please note that Artadia does not fund filmmakers making films for distribution in cinematic venues, or those working in choreography presented outside of a contemporary art context).
Compensation: 15,000 in unrestricted funds
Submissions Due: April 1st
Info + Submissions: HERE
Georgia Writers Association
Red Clay encourages and inspires writers through literary events that focus on the art and craft of writing. This year we are proud to announce the 14th Annual Red Clay Writers Conference! The in-person conference consists of workshops and panels with renowned writers and editors.
When: Saturday, April 26th, 9AM - 6PM: IN-PERSON
In order to bring this conference to as many people as possible, we are opening up 10 scholarships to the conference.
Requirements for scholarship application:
C.V./Resume
Cover Letter (details below)
Portfolio (details below)
Applications: HERE
FlameTree Publishing
Seeking: Afrofuturist Short Stories
Guidelines:
Reprints are accepted
If submitting multiple stories, please submit one story per email.
The subject line of the email must be the same as the story title and the file name for the submission.
If the story name starts with A or The, make certain to use it at the beginning of the file name.
The story file must be attached to the email as .docx, .doc or .rtf
Please only use spaces between words in the title.
Story lengths between 2000–4000 words are generally the most successful, stories near this length will still be read.
Please state if your submission is being sent to other publications
Compensation: Up to 240 USD
Submissions Due: Unstated
Submissions: afrofuturism@flametreepublishing.com
WFF Housing Stability Grant for Artists (NYC Artists)
For NYC-based visual artists in need who are seeking support for stable housing.
Offered in recognition of the increasing unaffordability of rental housing in New York City, and the housing insecurity it creates for artists. Its goal is to improve artists’ housing stability, through a grant that is distributed over three years.
Recipients may use the funds for new housing which reduces their rent obligation, guarantees a stable rental obligation such as a lengthy lease in their existing or new housing, and/or provides greater access to live/work space.
Compensation: 30,000
Applications Accepted: Feb 11th - Apr 8th
Info + Submissions: HERE
** Africa Based Opportunity **
Chizi Wigwe Prize for African Futurism
Granted to an exceptional artist whose work embodies the spirit of African Futurism and aligns with the theme "Africa in 2100."
Artists are invited to explore the following questions through their work:
What will African societies look like in 2100?
How will technology shape cultural traditions, art, and innovation on the continent?
What role will Africa play in addressing global challenges and advancing humanity?
Compensation: $15,000
Submissions Due: April 30th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Until May y’all! <3
Thank you! I applied for the MFAH Fellowship 🙏🏾
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