December Opportunity List
Featuring arts and writing residencies, fellowships + calls for magazine pitches.
Hey everyone,
One of my intentions with this space is to highlight the writing of our community members. It’s a thing of wonder when I find myself in your writings, or when my way of seeing / being is expanded, even challenged.
Some publications that stood out this month:
(in no particular order)
I love the visceral quality of this line by
“With gratitude for the cup of joe, she drank the coffee with a mouth full of grounds in each sip.”(from Cycles of Peaceful Chaos)
I will have to read this piece by
again. The haunting beauty of it.
“I waited patiently and quietly in the room, disassociating into the neverending wood panels of the eaves.”(from Chapter Twenty: What it Means to Dream of Being Alive)
This piece on loss by
will stay with me for a long time.
“When I closed my eyes, I found myself lying in the clover field next to the house, beside the ivy ridden tennis court. Being pulled away from tending to our fresh wounds, to face the fact we had to be the Reaper in the end.” (from explicit vulnerability)
Thank you all for allowing me to experience your worlds.
Gratitude for the support via subscriptions, shares and your kinds words.
Thank you Tieshka
for your monetary support this month - it is so appreciated! Tieshka is a visual storyteller that is currently working on a book project titled “Compositions of Black Joy”. <3As always, thank you all for being here.
*** International Entries Welcome ***
BlackFlash Magazine
Call for pitches for Issue 42.1
For this issue, we invite contributors to creatively influence the theme of traces. Traces can take many forms and be interpreted from a variety of perspectives. They might reside in memory, material, style, artistic movements, landscapes, or institutions.
Possible topics include: career retrospectives, artistic legacies, engagement with archives and collections, invisible labour, interpreting artwork, obsolescence, earth art, extraction, printmaking, conservation and decay, forgery and bootlegs.
Your pitch should be under 250 words and provide a concise summary of your topic and approach.
Compensation: 1000 CAD / 717 USD
Submissions Due: Dec 10th
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
BlackFlash Magazine
Call for Features
A 2,000-2,500 word text on a critical theme in contemporary art and culture, exploring urgent topics, under-explored histories, and objects of fascination you haven’t seen written about elsewhere.
Compensation: 1000 CAD / 717 USD
Submissions Due: Dec 10th
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
BlackFlash Magazine
Call for Conversations
A 2,500-3,000 word conversation between you and an artist, writer, or organizer, delving into their practice or a mutually shared topic of interest, including a brief introduction by the interviewer.
Compensation: Writer’s fee: $750.00 CAD / 538 USD + Interviewee honorarium: $150.00 CAD/ 108 USD
Submissions Due: Dec 10th
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
BlackFlash Magazine
Call for Artist Profiles
Introduce readers to a contemporary visual artist in a 1500 word text.
Compensation: $650.00 CAD / 466 USD
Submissions Due: Dec 10th
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
BlackFlash Magazine
Call for Artist Projects
Showcase your studio practice and research in concert with the theme. Here, the portfolio of images take the starring role. Projects can include 500 words plus a portfolio of images to fill up to six pages.
Compensation: 450 CAD / 322.50 USD
Submissions Due: Dec 10th
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
Art in Makerpark 2025 Artist Residency
Artists will create an outdoor public art piece, to be installed at Makerpark in Staten Island.
Compensation:
Artists may work out of either Staten Island Makerspace and Futureworks Makerspace at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
Artists have access to fabrication tools at both facilities, will receive free tool training on equipment needed for their project, and be allocated a storage spot for their materials and work in progress.
Additionally, artists or artist teams will receive a $750 material stipend.
Applications Due: Dec 31
Info + Submissions: HERE
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships
Open to all artists whose work would benefit from significant primary research related to the histories, concepts, art, and objects of the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and its legacies.
Artistic applicants are not required to hold a formal degree, but should describe their training and level of industry-specific experience in their CV.
Compensation: $4,000 per virtual month and $5,000 per onsite month
Submissions Due: Jan 15th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Folger Long-term Public Humanities Fellowships
Designed to support significant, full-time research and public humanities project implementation related to the histories, concepts, art, and objects of the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and its legacies.
open to college and university faculty, independent scholars, artists, public scholars, writers, PhD candidates, postdocs, community leaders, cultural workers, educators and other knowledge holders.
Compensation: 70,000 for a standard period of 9 months (approximately $7,777 per month).
Submissions Due: Dec 15th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Folger Long-term Fellowships ( For Degree Holders)
These fellowships are designed to support full-time scholarly work on significant research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger’s collections and programs.
Long-term fellows have the option to take up to 3 months of their 9-month fellowship virtually.
This virtual time may be taken at any point in the fellowship and does not have to be taken concurrently.
Applicants may propose any research schedule that best fits their project’s needs.
Compensation: $70,000 (approximately $7,777 per month, for a standard period of 9 months).
Submissions Due: Dec 15th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Folger Short-term Scholarly Fellowships
To support scholars whose work would benefit from significant primary research for one, two, or three months. They are designed to support a concentrated period of full-time work on research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger’s collections and programs.
Open to scholars with a terminal degree as well as PhD candidates, or an international equivalent.
Compensation: $5,000 per month in residence and $4,000 per month for virtual. Fellowship awards are intended to cover travel, housing, and living expenses associated with the fellowship.
Submissions Due: Jan 15th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency
Artists selected for this program are at all stages of their careers and work in all media, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and non fiction writing, interdisciplinary, social practice and architecture.
Compensation: 1,500 scholarship + studio space and living accommodations.
Funds can be used towards art supplies, transportation, meals, etc.
Submissions Due: Dec 15th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Compensation: 1250 monthly stipend, private accommodations on the grounds of The Fine Arts Work Center, as well as a $1,000 exit stipend to support relocation at the end of the Fellowship.
Leon Levy Biography Fellowships
Seeking: Those who have not yet published a biography or received fellowships for the writing of a biography.
Compensation: $72,000, Four yearlong fellowship (x4), writing space at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, access to research facilities, and research assistance from a graduate student are given annually to nonfiction writers working on biographies.
An additional Sloan Fellowship of the same amount is given annually to a writer working on a biography of a figure in the field of science or technology.
Please Note: They do not award fellowships for memoirs, essays, plays, films, or fiction.
Submissions Due: January 6, 2025
Submissions + Guidelines: HERE
The Avery Review Essay Prize 2025
The Avery Review is seeking: Submissions that use the genres of the review and the critical essay to explore the urgent questions animating the field of architecture.
Essays that test and expand the author’s own intellectual commitments—theoretical, architectural, and political—through the work of others.
The call is open to current students (undergraduate and masters) and recent graduates, whether in schools of architecture or elsewhere
Compensation: First-place prize ($4,000) and three second-place prizes ($2,000) + Essay will be published in the June 2025 issue.
Submissions Due: Jan 31
Info + Submissions: HERE
Fine Arts Work Center
2025-2026 Writing Fellowship
The 7 month residency runs from October 1 - April 30.
The duration of the residency is entirely self-directed, intended to serve as unrestricted time for writers in the crucial, early stages of their careers.
Compensation: 1250 monthly stipend, private accommodations + a $1,000 exit stipend to support relocation at the end of the Fellowship.
Submissions Due: Dec 16
This call has a $55 USD submissions fee. Unfortunately, they do not offer accommodations.
Info + Submissions: HERE
** U.S Entries By Region **
Arts Alive Grants: Westchester & Rockland Counties (NY)
The ArtsWestchester is seeking applications for its Arts Alive Grants 2025 to support arts activities for the region’s geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse population.
There are two distinct Arts Alive funding opportunities available to both Counties: Community Impact and Individual Artist.
Compensation: Community Impact: 1,000-7,500
Individual Artist: 1,000- 3,000
Applications Due: Dec 17
To receive staff review of your proposal please submit by the early deadline, December 11
Info + Submissions: HERE
Luminarts Creative Writing Fellowship (Chicago)
The Creative Writing Fellowship awards excellence in creative writing in the categories of poetry and/or prose (fiction and nonfiction).
Must be between the ages of 18-30
Live within 150 miles of the Chicago Loop
If you are selected as a winner, you must be available on the evening of Thursday, May 1, 2025 for the ceremony
Compensation: 10,000 + awards ceremony and reading in downtown Chicago celebrating your Fellowship
Submissions Due: Jan 10
Info + Submissions: HERE
Luminarts Visual Arts Fellowship (Chicago)
Awards excellence in Visual Arts (i.e., drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, and moving images).
Must be between the ages of 18 and 30 years old
Live within 150 miles of the Chicago Loop.
Be available to install artwork in downtown Chicago on May 10 and/or 11, 2025. This is only required if you are selected as a finalist.
Must be available to attend the Visual Arts Exhibition Finals in downtown Chicago on Thursday, May 15, 2025, from 6:00-8:00 PM CT. This is only required if you are selected as a finalist.
Compensation: Top Award 10,000
Visual Arts finalists will receive a $300 honorable mention award.
Info + Submissions: HERE
** Luminarts also has a number of other Fellowships for Chicago Based Creatives between the ages of 18-30 **
The following categories are taking submissions until Jan 10th:
Classical Winds Fellowship
Classical Strings Fellowship
Classical Piano Fellowship
Classical Voice Fellowship
Jazz Improvisation Fellowship
Info + Submissions: HERE
Steinbeck Fellowships in Creative Writing (Bay Area)
Seeking: Fiction + Creative nonfiction writers
The fellows are required to give one public reading and reside in one of the counties within the San Francisco Bay Area or an adjacent county in the California central coast or central valley during most of the fellowship period.
Compensation: 15,000 USD
Submissions Due: January 5th
Submissions + Guidelines: HERE
RFPs: Individual Artist Fellowship (Tennessee)
For professional artists (i.e. those individuals who by education, experience, or natural talent engage in a particular art form or discipline)
Accepting applications for the following categories:
Literary Arts, Visual Art, Theatre, Craft, Media, Dance or Music.
Compensation: 5,000
Submissions Due: Jan 21
Info + Submissions: HERE
Arts Grants For Queens (Queens, NY)
Funding artists based in Queens to produce arts and culture projects to be presented in the borough in order to enrich and enliven the community.
For the creation of new work in a community setting.
Submission Due: December 12th
Compensation: $3,000 per artist
Info + Submissions: HERE
Arts Grants For Queens (Queens, NY)
Funding arts organizations based in Queens to produce arts and culture projects to be presented in the borough in order to enrich and enliven the community.
To hold arts and cultural projects or activities for the public in Queens
Submission Due: December 12th
Compensation: $1,000 - 5,000 per project
Info + Submissions: HERE
2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
(New York + Tribal Nations located therein)
Intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development.
The 2025 categories are: Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Choreography, Music/Sound, Photography, and Playwriting/Screenwriting.
Compensation: $8,000 unrestricted cash grant
Submissions Due: Dec 17th, 5PM ET
Info + Submissions: HERE
Somerset County Arts Council (Maryland)
Individual Artist Grant
The Somerset County Arts Council annually awards grants to talented individual artists. The purpose of these grants is to honor, support, and strengthen individual artists living and working in the area.
Compensation: Up to $1000 USD
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
** U.S Resident + Citizen Entries Only **
The Ernest J. Gaines Award For Literary Excellence
(For African American Published Writers)
Seeking: Works of fiction (novel or collection of short stories) that is published between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. Galleys for a 2024 publication are also accepted.
The nominee must be a rising author, not yet widely recognized for their work.
Author must be an African-American U.S. citizen.
Self-published books will not be accepted.
Compensation: $15,000 + travel to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to receive the prize at a ceremony.
Here the author will read an excerpt from the selected work of fiction. A reception follows. The evening is free, open to the public and attracts a diverse audience.
Submissions Due: Dec 31
Info + Submissions: HERE
Poetry Society of America
Four Quartets Prize
Given annually for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in the United States in a print or online journal, a chapbook, or a book during the current year.
Compensation: 20,000
Finalists will receive $1,000 each. The winner will also receive $20,000.
Submissions Due: Dec 31
Info + Submissions: HERE
Jack Hazard Fellowships
Given annually to creative writers who are high school teachers to support summer work on an ongoing fiction, creative nonfiction, or memoir project.
Full-time instructors at accredited U.S. high schools teaching in the 2024–2025 academic year.
Those who are contracted to return to their schools in fall 2025.
Teaching for at least three years are eligible.
Compensation: 5000
Info + Submissions: HERE
** Rollover from November List **
Lit Fox Award for a Full-length Poetry Collection
Lit Fox Books, a nonprofit press based in Austin, TX, is an organization dedicated to preserving authors’ artistic visions in a vibrant and supportive environment.
Accepting: Full length poetry manuscripts of at least 48 pages.
Compensation: $1500, Publication, 25 author copies, Custom merchandise + An interview with Lit Fox Books
Submissions Due: Dec 15
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
Creative. Inspired. Happy.
Writing Scholarship
For an aspiring writer not currently in a professional writing career, for use toward furthering their education in writing, such as continuing education or community college courses on writing.
Compensation: 1000
Submissions Due: Dec 31
https://bold.org/scholarships/creative-inspired-happy-mid-career-writing-scholarship/
Kinsman Quarterly
Seeking: “Stories of Inspiration”
Nonfiction essays should highlight the struggle and resilience of the human spirit, especially related to cultures of marginalized communities.
Compensation: 200 + publishing within Kinsman Quarterly's online journal and magazine.
Submissions Due: Dec 31
Guidelines + Entries: HERE
Prism International
Seeking bold and original work in Poetry Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Visual Art.
Compensation: $40/printed page for prose and $45/printed page for poetry. Contributors also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears. Up to 250 for Visual Art.
Submissions Due: December 9
There is a 3.00 submissions fee, however they offer an Inclusive Access category for those who might otherwise be unable to submit.
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
Exposition Review
Exposition Review is happy to announce the theme for our tenth annual issue: “Spring.”
We’re looking for stories that well from the imagination, language that leaps off the page, writing that’s liberated from the constraints of genre and crackles with the energy of a spring storm.
Accepting: Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Experimental Narratives, Comics, Film, +++
Compensation: 50
Free submission days will be on December 3 (Giving Tuesday) and December 10 (Human Rights Day)
Submissions Due: Dec 15
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
*** US BASED BY REGION ***
Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts (Southern Based)
For Artists located in the following States: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Based on artistic excellence that reflects the diversity of artistic expression of the region
Compensation:
The $25,000 Southern Prize will be awarded to the literary artist whose work demonstrates the highest artistic excellence, and a finalist will be awarded a $10,000 Prize.
Both Southern Prize awardees will receive a two-week residency at The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences.
The other 7 finalists will receive $5000
Submissions Due: Dec 2
Fee wavers (for the $25 submissions fee) can be accessed from South Arts by contacting southernprize@southarts.org before completeing the application form.
Guidelines and Submissions: HERE
Literary Society of the Southwest (Arizona)
The society celebrates contemporary literature and authors and promotes literacy in Arizona.
Seeking: Programs to improve the ability to read and write for children and youth from birth through 12th grade.
Applications Due: December 1
Compensation: Up to 15,000
https://literarysoc.com/page-1075299
Poet-in-Residence Fellowship at Ripon College (Wisconsin)
Provides one poet with a year-long opportunity at Ripon College to devote time and attention to a poetry manuscript in progress.
Resident must be residing in Wisconsin or have spent at least two years in Wisconsin in the past ***
Compensation: $32,000 salary for the academic year.
Other benefits include housing (a taxable benefit, appropriate for a maximum of two people) in a campus apartment
An office and office supplies; monetary support for on-campus presentations and travel to out-of-town presentations.
Submissions Due: Jan 8
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
*** Awards and Prizes for Published Writers ***
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
Given annually to an emerging African American writer for a book of fiction published in the current year.
Compensation: 15,000 + travel and lodging to attend an awards ceremony and participate in educational outreach events in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2025.
Submissions Due: Dec 31
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
Black Caucus of the American Library Association
Literary Awards
Given annually for a poetry collection, a debut novel, a book of fiction, and a book of nonfiction (including creative nonfiction) by African American writers published in the United States in the current year.
Compensation: 1000
Submissions Due: Dec 31
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
** CANADA BASED **
Conundrum Press
Mini-Comic Bursary for Black and Indigenous Creators
This annual bursary, which aims to support these under-represented voices in Canada’s comics industry.
Compensation: 1000
Submissions Due: Dec 31
Info: HERE
To submit: send 3-5 sample pages to andy@conundrumpress.com
Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry
Canadian First Book Prize
Compensation: A prize of $10,000 CAD is awarded for a debut poetry collection by a living Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada published during the current year.
A six-week Affiliated Fellowship with the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Perugia, Italy
Submissions Due: Dec 20
Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
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