August Opportunity List
Hey y’all!
Thanks kindly to the folks that have already subscribed, I truly appreciate your support!
A few notes on this months list—
A ton of Literary Journals begin taking submission again in September, so be sure to keep an eye out for next months list— I have a feeling it’ll be Mega. :)
As promised, for the next three months I’ll be recommending the newsletters of our first three subscribers! This will roll over to another 3 of our subscribers in November.
Below you will find International + U.S, U.K, Canada, and Africa based opportunities for publishing, exhibitions, and funding.
P.S Some of the opportunities from last months list are still listed because their submission date has not past OR they accept year round!
Let me know in the comments if there are specific types of opportunities you’re seeking and I will do my best to include them in the upcoming months.
Thanks for being here!
INTERNATIONAL ENTRIES WELCOME
Sundress Publications
(4 Opportunities from Sundress Listed below)
Writing Fellowship for LGBTQIA2S+ Community
(One 100% covered and One 50% week-long fellowship)
The application fee is waived for all BIPOC identifying writers. For all fellowship applications, the application fee will also be waived for those who demonstrate financial need; please state this in your application under the financial need section. All application fees are used to fund support grants for Black and/or Indigenous writers.
Application Due: September 1st
https://www.sundresspublications.com/submit
Writing Fellowship for Black & Indigenous Writers
(One 100% covered fellowship)
The application fee is waived for all BIPOC identifying writers. For all fellowship applications, the application fee will also be waived for those who demonstrate financial need; please state this in your application under the financial need section. All application fees are used to fund support grants for Black and/or Indigenous writers.
Submissions Due: Septenber 1st
https://www.sundresspublications.com/submit
Call for Submissions for Anthology of Poetry by Sexual Assault Survivors
We hope to both provide an avenue for publishing work about sexual assault, as it can be challenging to find markets open to that topic, and showcase the full, vibrant lives survivors lead outside their trauma.
Submissions Due: September 30th
https://www.sundresspublications.com/submit
Open for Full-Length Poetry Manuscript Open Reading Period
From June 1st through 14th, submissions to this contest are free for the first submission for any and all writers.
Please note that this submission fee is waived for all BIPOC writers for the duration of the reading period.
Submissions Due: August 31st
https://www.sundresspublications.com/submit
Midnight + Indigo (Supporting Black Woman Writers)
Seeking speculative works + essays
Submissions Due: September 1st
Compensation: 0.07cents per word
https://www.midnightandindigo.com/write-for-us/
CUE Art Foundation
ART CRITIC MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
For emerging Writers that have a demonstrated art and/or critical writing practice and an interest in contemporary art
Submissions Due: Accepted on a rolling Basis
Compensation: 600 USD + being paired with art critic mentors to produce original long-form critical essays about the work of artists exhibiting at CUE's gallery space.
https://cueartfoundation.org/acmp
**(Posting the next one early so all who are interested have extra time to work on it)**
The Speculative Literature Foundation
The Working Class Writers Grant
Submission Open: SEPTEMBER 1
Compensation: 1000 USD
https://speculativeliterature.org/grants-3/the-slf-working-class-grant/
International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC)
Entrants must submit a piece of critical writing about any contemporary art exhibition held anywhere in the world or online.
Compensation: one of four prizes totaling over 20k euros.
http://www.iaac-m21.com/english/index.html
Click Online Submission in the drop down menu to the right. (You will have to make an account)
Submission Due: September 15th
'Voices of Regeneration'
Dares you to dream of a more just, equitable, and inclusive world where nature, including people, thrives together.
Compensation: 500-1500 CHF (Swiss Francs) + Publishing & Collaboration opportunities
Submission Due: August 6th
https://unearthodox.org/2024/06/landing-page-voices-of-regeneration/
2024 Henki Art Award
For Writers Exploring Art Making as an output*
Exploring the relationship between artists and the element of water in their artwork
Compensaton: $1000 and promotion opportunities
Submission Due: October 31st
https://henkiart.com/2024-henki-art-prize/
The Sculpture Center: 2025 In Practice Open Call for Proposals
Artists are invited to propose solo exhibitions in designated gallery spaces at the Sculpture Center as well as off-site projects, publishing initiatives, performances, and nontraditional formats, which will be considered based on feasibility.
Compensation: Solo exhibition, a production budget of up to $6K and $1K honorarium
Submission Due: August 4th
https://www.sculpture-center.org/in_practice
Center For Book Arts
a unique opportunity for BIPOC individuals to learn and develop their skills in different aspects of the book-making system.
Compensation: Studio access and tools to support your creative journey; including a $2,000 stipend + a $1,000 materials budget
Submission Due: August 18th
New Orleans Review
fiction pieces up to 5,000 words + nonfiction pieces up to 5,000 words
Compensation: 300 regardless of length
Up to five pages of poems
Compensation: 100
Submission Due: Accepted All Year
https://www.neworleansreview.org/submit/
INTERNATIONAL FUNDING
Entry Fees for Poets
This group pays entry fees for poets attempting to submit their manuscripts to publishers that charge to submit. Submission fees for poetry chapbooks and full-length poetry manuscripts only. A maximum of three submissions per poet.
https://www.poetrybulletin.com/poetry-fee-support
About Her Culture (For African and Caribbean Women)
Micro Grant Applications Now Open for (entrepreneurs, creatives + non profit founders)
Our micro grants aim to empower African and Caribbean women around the world for social and economic development.
Submission Due: Taking applications every month til 2025
Compensaton: $500 USD
https://aboutherculture.com/micro-grant-opportunities/
THE AWESOME FOUNDATION
The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time.
Get funding for your project https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/submissions/new
Magazines + Web Based Articles (International)
ReIssue
ReIssue is an interdisciplinary art writing platform focused on shaping and sustaining a contemporary west coast discourse rooted in critical engagement with experimental art practices. Our mission is to nurture interdisciplinary engagement through written work that critically responds to and advances the understanding, appreciation, and dissemination of art in its many forms.
Accepting pitches for any of these sections:
Reviews 600-1000 words
Creative, varies up to 3000 words
Interviews, 800-2000 words
Essays,1000-3000 words
Moving Image, 800-1500 words
Compensation:
Reviews up to 1000 words $350
Fiction/Prose and Essays: 75 cents per word, up to $500 Interviews: Interviewer paid $300 + Interviewee $100 Honorarium
Poetry: $100 per poem, up to 3 poems, or $50 per page, up to $300 for poems longer than 1 page
Plays/Scripts/Screenplay: $50 per page, up to $400
Submission Guide:
https://reissue.pub/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20231130-ReIssue-Submission-Guide-final.pdf
NER DIGITAL
Accepting submissions in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, dramatic writing, and translation in all genres.
Compensation: work published in the journal is $20 per page ($50 minimum), plus two copies of the issue in which the work appears and a one-year subscription to the print or e-book edition.
online publication pays $50 and a one-year subscription to the magazine
ATMOS
If you are interested in pitching specifically for print, you may inquire as to the theme of the current issue. The ideal Atmos story exists at the intersection of climate and culture. That can mean a culture story with a climate twist, a climate story with a culture twist, or something directly in between.
Compensation: 50c per word
https://atmos.earth/
Editorial Guidelines: https://brindle-caraway-75e.notion.site/0c1688d8986644a98cd3118dfb069c8e?v=4bc2293983224e41b0a906b2e2fd8010
Only Poems
Takes poem submission all year long
Compensation: 55 USD per contribution
https://www.onlypoems.net/submit
Blue Dot Living
Seeking great solutions-focused climate stories to share about what’s happening in a community.
Compensation: $175 USD for reporting about a specific project/initiative in a community- this should be 400-800 words. Features are from 800-1,500 words with compensation of $400-$750 depending on complexity/writer’s experience.Submit to Leslie leslie@bluedotliving.com
Unpaid International Publication + Exhibition Opportunities
ArtCabbage Prize
Accepting Works In Literature*
Compensation: Publication + exhibition opportunities
Submission Due: August 1st, TODAY!!
https://artcabbage.com/artcabbage-prize-international-art-contest/
Passing Glows: Digital Exhibition Opportunity with Warimono Gallery
For Writers Exploring Art Making as an output*
Compensation: selected works presented on our website and through our social media channels. Post-exhibition, our website will serve as an archive.
https://www.warimono.com/open-call
U.S BASED OPPORTUNITIES
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The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing
Entries for the Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing should be a single piece of prose, written in English, not exceeding 1,500 words.
Compensation: There will be one first place prize of $3,000 dollars, and two runners up, awarded $1,000 each. The winning essay will be featured in GC's printed journal, and the two runners-up will be considered for publication.
Submission Due: August 31st
https://gulfcoastmag.org/contests/the-beauchamp-prize/
Granum Foundation Prize
awarded annually to help U.S.-based writers complete substantive literary works—such as poetry books, essay or short story collections, novels, and memoirs—or to help launch these works.
Compensation: One winner will be awarded $5,000. Up to three finalists will be awarded $500 or more.
https://www.granumfoundation.org/granum-prize?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Granum Foundation Translation Prize
awarded to support the completion of a work translated into English by a U.S.-based writer.
Compensation: One winner will receive $1,500 or more.
https://www.granumfoundation.org/granum-prize?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Emergency Aid (U.S BASED)
WRITERS AID INITIATIVE
The U.S. Writers Aid Initiative is intended to assist fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. To be eligible, applicants must be professional writers based in the United States, and be able to demonstrate that this one-time grant will be meaningful in helping address a short-term emergency situation.
Applications Due: July 1, 2024 - October 1, 2024.
https://pen.org/us-writers-aid-initiative/
Dramatists Guild Foundation
A national charity that fuels the future of American theater by supporting the writers who create it. DGF fosters playwrights, composers, lyricists, and book writers at all stages of their careers
We sponsor educational programs; provide awards, grants, and stipends; offer free space to create new works; and give emergency aid to writers in need
Compensation: Up to 20,000
https://dramatistsguildfoundation.submittable.com/submit
Opportunity for Africa Born Writers
The Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship
African Writer ( Born in Africa or w/ Africa Born parents)
Fiction + Non-Fiction
Dates: Applications will be received between 1st July 2024 and 20th September 2024.
Pay: Scholars will receive a grant of £18,000, paid monthly over the course of twelve months. At the discretion of the Foundation, Scholars writing non-fiction, who require additional research time, could receive an additional grant, paid over a period of up to eighteen months.
https://milesmorlandfoundation.com/entry-requirements/
Opportunities for UK Based Writers
Grand Plan, UK
We support creativity in all its forms including poetry, paintings, fashion, zines, music, food, flowers, photographs, workshops, events, or something else completely.
Compensation: £1,000 grants to people of colour based in the UK who want to bring a new creative project to life.
Submission Due: August 7th
https://www.grandplanfund.co.uk/apply
ING Discerning Eye
All styles and media are welcome including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, film, textile, and more.
Compensation: Exhibition opportunity at the Mall Galleries in London, a virtual exhibition, and prizes totaling over £12,000. The prizes include the ING Purchase Prize, worth £5,000.
https://artopps.co.uk/opportunities/discerningeye-2024
Submission Due: August 30th
Curtis Brown Creative
Applications Due Aug 4, 2024 This includes 3000 words of your novel + 1 page synopsis, and application, including financial information
Award:
This scholarship, sponsored by HW Fisher, will award one talented writer of limited financial means a free place in their three-month ‘Writing Your Novel’ course with teaching in London.
THE WHITE PUBE CREATIVES GRANT
The White Pube Creatives Grant is a one-off grant to be given out to a different working class creative practitioner based in the UK once every month. 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 fund materials, equipment, research, subscriptions, development, travel, or even rent and bills.
Pay: £500
https://thewhitepube.co.uk/grants/
Opportunities for Canada Based Writers
Arc’s 16th virtual Poet-in-Residence
Arc’s (PIR) program offers our country-wide community of writers the chance to participate in virtual mentorships with an influential Canadian poet.
Compensation: $10,000, pending funding
Submission Due: August 15th
https://arcpoetry.ca/resources/arcs-16th-virtual-poet-in-residence/
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Open to all disciplines
Art for Social Change is a pilot program that uses conceptual art to provide powerful experiences that inspire people to take personal action to create positive change for those facing barriers due to lack of accessibility, inclusion, and other oppressive systems and structures.
Pay: Up to 10,000
https://www.affta.ab.ca/news/call-artist-art-social-change
Submission Due: August 8th, 2014
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— your friend, at Write, Period!
This is an amazing list of resources. Much appreciated 🙌🏾
Thank you for this!❤️