January Opportunity List
Featuring literary magazine calls, fellowships for LGBTQ+ and artists of colour + a variety of residencies.
Happy 2025 y’all,
Thank you all for being supporters of this space. It’s been a pleasure to curate this list for you each month.
I’m excited to announce the very first Writers Fund Call will be announced on the 15th of this month. You will have the opportunity to submit your projects for monetary support. Maybe you don’t have a current project but are in need of some extra funds - you can put in a request for that as well. Make sure you’re subscribed as details will be coming to your inbox.
Thank you to the monthly subscribers, and those who have sent across love donations for your endless support. It’s because of you that the writers fund is possible.
your support from day 1 has not gone unnoticed. The way you show up for our community is a thing of beauty—I truly admire you! I hope you started this year feeling encouraged and supported. Thank you for becoming our first founding member!** International Submissions Welcomed **
The Biographers International Organization
The Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship
For authors working on a biographical work about an African American figure or figures whose story provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Black experience.
Memoirs and autobiographies are not eligible.
Compensation: 5,000 + a year’s membership in BIO, registration to the annual BIO Conference, and publicity through BIO’s marketing channels.
Submissions Due: February 1st
Info + Submissions: HERE
Sundress Academy for the Arts
Summer Residency for Black and/or Indigenous Writers
Submissions Due: Feb 1st
Compensation: Full fellowship (a week-long farmhouse residency) + invitation to apply for a $350 support grant to help cover the costs of food, travel, childcare, and/or any other needs while they are at the residency.
The application fee is waived for all writers of color as well as any writer applying for financial need. Please state this in your application under the financial need section. All paid application fees will fund support grants for Black and/or Indigenous identifying writers.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Sundress Academy for the Arts
Summer Residency for Writers of Colour
Submissions Due: Feb 1st
Compensation: Full fellowship (a week-long farmhouse residency)
The application fee is waived for all writers of color as well as any writer applying for financial need. Please state this in your application under the financial need section. All paid application fees will fund support grants for Black and/or Indigenous identifying writers.
Info + Submissions: HERE
VCCA 50th Anniversary Fellowships for Artists of Color
For: Artists (writers, visual artists, and composers) who have not previously been in residence at VCCA
Each 50th Anniversary Fellow receives a free residency of up to two weeks at Mt. San Angelo, VCCA’s artist residency program in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
Compensation: Residency + private studio, private bedroom with en-suite bath, three prepared meals each day, and access to a community of more than 20 other artists in residence.
** There is an application fee of $30. Please write to vcca@vcca.com by January 10, 2025, to request an application fee waiver.
Submissions Due: January 15th
Info + Submissions: HERE (submit to Mt. San Angelo Residencies, Fall 2025)
Edith Leonian Words and Music Collaborative Fellowship
For: Two artists who are working together on an artistic project combining words and music.
Compensation: $500 each + two private bedrooms with en-suite baths, two separate individual studios, and three meals a day in a community of cross-disciplinary artists.
Submissions Due: January 15th
** There is a $30 submissions fee, please write to vcca@vcca.com by January 10, 2025, to request an application fee waiver.
Info + Submissions: HERE (submit to Mt. San Angelo Residencies, Fall 2025)
Alison Lurie Memorial Fellowship for Female-Identifying Fiction Writers
This fellowship is intended to support a female-identifying fiction writer each year for a two-week residency.
Compensation: Two-week residency + private bedroom with en-suite bath, a separate individual studio, and three meals a day in a community of cross-disciplinary artists.
Submissions Due: January 15th
There is a $30 submissions fee. Please write to vcca@vcca.com by January 10, 2025, to request an application fee waiver.
Info + Submissions: HERE (submit to Mt. San Angelo Residencies, Fall 2025)
Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship
Open to writers in any genre who self-identify as LGBTQ+.
This juried fellowship is awarded on a competitive basis, and the selection is made based on the quality of the submitted work.
Compensation: Two-week residency at Mt. San Angelo, which includes a private bedroom with private bath, a separate individual studio, and three meals a day in a community of cross-disciplinary artists.
Submissions Due: January 15th
** There is a $30 submissions fee. Please write to vcca@vcca.com by January 10, 2025, to request an application fee waiver.
Info + Submissions: HERE (submit to Mt. San Angelo Residencies, Fall 2025)
Richard S. and Julia Louise Reynolds Poetry Fellowship
Writing residency for poets at the VCCA residency at Mt. San Angelo
Compensation: Three-Week residency + private bedroom with private bath, a separate individual studio, and three meals a day in a community of cross-disciplinary artists.
Submissions Due: January 15th
** There is a $30 submissions fee. Please write to vcca@vcca.com by January 10, 2025, to request an application fee waiver.
Info + Submissions: HERE (submit to Mt. San Angelo Residencies, Fall 2025)
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
Call for Writing: The Liberatory Space of the Photography Studio
Autograph is inviting pitches for texts that critically engage with the ways in which the photography studio can serve as a liberatory space to explore expression and identity.
This open call is for emerging writers with an idea for a new text of 600-1000 words
This call is part of our new exhibitions featuring Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Abi Morocco Photos.(see images on website)
Autograph is committed to sharing the work of creatives whose work addresses issues of race, representation, identity, human rights and social justice.
Compensation: £312 / 391.50 USD fee for producing the full text, editorial support from Autograph, and publication on our website.
Submissions Due: January 6th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Matter of Intelligence Open Call
Accepting: Project Proposals
Are you working on or have an idea for a project you would like us to know about as we embark on a two-year exploration of intelligence?
2025–2027 Focus Theme
Where does intelligence start? Where does it reside? What forms does it take? Does it even exist?
With new advances in artificial intelligence, these and other questions about intelligence and intelligent life are increasingly being asked, with a sense of urgency, as the promise and threats of AI loom large.
Projects are considered for the two-year VLC Fellowship, as well as a range of VLC programs, including the center’s seminar series, exhibitions, annual VLC Forum, and digital or print publications.
Compensation: 25,000 Stipend
Submissions Due: January 6th
Info + Submissions: HERE
The Test Site Poetry Series 2024
Seeking: Manuscripts that engage the perilous conditions of life in the 21st century, as they pertain to issues of social justice and the earth.
The winning books will demonstrate an ethos that considers the human condition in inclusive love and sympathy, while offering the same in consideration of the earth.
Compensation: The authors of the winning books will both receive $1,000 and the books will be published by the University of Nevada Press.
Info + Compensation: HERE
** 25 reading fee, unfortunately no accommodation for this cost **
Poetry Bulletin assists writers with entry fees for full-length poetry books + poetry chapbooks. They will reopen support this month.
Submissions Due: January 16th
Wave Farm’s Residency + Radio Art Fellowship
Welcomes submissions from artists, researchers, tinkerers, and writers, from a variety of disciplines who will embrace this opportunity to create work for a terrestrial radio station that celebrates risk-taking work and prioritizes the uniquely urgent and intimate nature of the radio medium.
Artists-in-residence will spend 10-days on-site at Wave Farm (Acra, NY) developing a new 55-minute radio artwork designed explicitly for terrestrial radio broadcast on Wave Farm’s creative community radio station WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears
Radio Art Fellows will dedicate a month-long remote engagement researching and selecting radio artworks by historical and contemporary artists to comprise an episode of the The Radio Art Hour.
Compensation: Artists-in-residence $1000, Radio Art Fellows $2000
Accommodations + being featured on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley + a live interview about your work.
An additional $1,500 will be awarded to a single resident as part of the Rising Tide Award which aims to support an applicant with a multidimensional life and background, whose work is rooted in process, to further the pursuit of new ideas, experiments, and uncertainties.
** Additional radio broadcast opportunities are also available upon request.**
NOTE: Residents and Fellows must pay for their own travel expenses* on a case-by-case basis, an advance of the artist fee or fellowship stipend will be made available to help offset travel expenses.
Submissions Due: February 1st
Info + Submissions: HERE
The Watermill Center
Residents at The Watermill Center develop works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of artistic practice.
Open to: visual arts, media/new genre, performance, architecture, film/video, literature, interdisciplinary arts, and music composition.
This residency provides artists with the time, space, and freedom to develop their practice in a communal environment that encourages experimentation.
Artists-in-Residence share their creative process with the community through open rehearsals, workshops, and artist talks.
There is a 12 USD Application Fee - unfortunately, there are no accommodations for this cost.
Compensation: Access to an extensive collection of resources central to The Watermill Center experience: 20,000 square feet of rehearsal/design spaces and outdoor stages; a theater production archive; The Watermill Center Study Library; The Watermill Collection; and The Watermill Center’s ten-acre landscaped grounds and gardens.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Community Engagement Artists and Creatives Grant
Providing financial support to those making or presenting creative work relating to, or engaging with, community engagement.
We especially encourage applications from artists who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Queer, Trans, Deaf, Disabled, Immigrant or Refugee, or Self-Taught.
Compensation: Up to 2,500 (occasionally up to, 5000)
Info + Submissions: HERE
Submissions Due: Jan 31st
Women’s Studio Workshop
Artist’s Book Residency Grant
A six- to eight-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition book work.
Compensation: A stipend of $350/week, up to $1000 for materials, up to $250 for travel within the Continental US, free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access. WSW can provide technical advice; training on new equipment, techniques, and materials; and production assistance.
Submissions Due: January 15th
Info + Submissions: HERE
FluxusMuseum Prize For Experimental Video
FluxusMuseum encourages applications across art forms, whether you’re a visual artist, dancer, performance artist, film maker, animator, writer, actor, musician or none of the above, we look forward to considering your proposals.
Compensation: 600 Euros
Submissions Due: January 15th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Masks & Mirrors: Carnival Rituals
This Open Call is for artists of all disciplines and using any media who explore Carnival’s significance, both personal and universal, with a focus on works that highlight the rich contradictions within Carnival itself.
THEME OF THE EXHIBITION
“Carnival” as a festivity has always been about more than just revelry. It was also the freedom of the anonymity that masks provide and a time of expressive indulgence before a period of restraint (such as fasting). How does Carnival represent the tensions between indulgence and reflection, order and chaos, winter and spring, identity and anonymity? Artists are encouraged to engage with these and other perspectives, offering their own artistic interpretation of the rich and layered Carnival traditions.
Submissions Due: January 15th
Compensation: Exhibition March 13th-April 6th + Artist Fee (unstated)
Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing
** For writers who have recently completed an MFA, MA, or PhD in creative writing **
Those who need a year to complete their first book of fiction or poetry, are encouraged to apply.
Compensations: A stipend of $57,100 + Travel expenses +
Health and Life insurance
Submissions Due: January 6th
Info + Submissions (Fiction): HERE
Info + Submissions (Poetry): HERE
** Regional U.S Based Opportunities **
New Mexico Writers Annual Grant (New Mexico)
Accepting applications for: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, playwriting, and screenwriting.
Compensation: Between 500 - 2000
Submissions Due: February 28th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Douglas Preston Travel Grant (New Mexico)
Supports an author’s travel needs in the service of a writing project.
Compensation: 1000
Submissions Due: February 28th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Preston Young Writers Grant (New Mexico)
This new grant is intended to assist an aspiring young writer between the ages of 18 and 25 obtain professional experience, networking, and training.
The grant provides for an annual Emerging Writer membership in The Authors Guild—the nation’s oldest and largest professional organization for published writers—and access to the professional development tools the Guild offers.
It also provides funds to attend a literary conference, with opportunities to learn about the writing and publishing world, attend workshops and sessions, meet with agents and editors, and connect with other writers.
Compensation: Applicants may request a specific amount of funding to support their work as needed.
Info + Submissions: HERE
DCLA Premiere Grants (Staten Island)
For individual Staten Island artists, collaborative groups of individuals, and community arts and cultural organizations who produce art or cultural programming.
All art and artistic cultural disciplines are considered, including music, dance, digital/new media, film/video/animation, folk arts, humanities and cultural studies, interdisciplinary events/festivals, literature, public art, theatre, and performing and visual arts.
Compensation: 750 - 3000
Submissions Due: January 31st
Info + Submissions: HERE
Artists and Mothers Grant (New York City)
Eligible to New York City-Based artists with children under the age of three.
Compensation: Grant for 25,000 to be used for childcare expenses with the provider of their choice.
They are inviting artists in visual arts, performing arts and socially-engaged forms to apply.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Applications Due: Jan 2nd
Residency Unlimited (New York City)
RU encourages applications from artists who self-identify as part of underserved communities, including but not limited to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals.
The three-month residency will run from April 1 – June 30, 2025
Artists working in all mediums are welcome, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary practices such as social practice, conceptual art, institutional critique, and other discursive approaches.
Compensation: Stipend $3500, Production Support $500 as well as curatorial support,
Info + Submissions: HERE
Submissions Due: Jan 19th
** U.S Based Opportunities**
Pen America Emerging Voices Fellowships
This is a virtual five-month immersive mentorship program for early-career writers from communities that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing world.
The program is committed to cultivating the careers of Black writers, and serves writers who identify as Indigenous, persons of color, LGBTQ+, immigrants, writers with disabilities, and those living outside of urban centers.
NOTE: Applicants do not need to be a U.S. permanent resident and/or citizen but must be residing in the United States at the time of applying for, and during the duration of, the fellowship.
Submissions Due: January 31st at 11:59 ET
Compensation: An honorarium of $1,500
Info + Submissions: HERE
Alonzo Davis Fellowship
For: American writers, visual artists, and composers of African or Latin American descent
Compensation: 500
Submissions Due: January 15th
*** There is an application fee of 30 ***
Please write to vcca@vcca.com by January 10, 2025, to request an application fee waiver.
Info + Submissions: HERE
Native American Artist Fellowships
The Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) offers three artist-in-residence fellowships annually to advance the work of established and emerging Native American artists.
Compensation: Each fellowship includes a monthly stipend, housing, studio space, a supplies allowance, full access to the IARC collections, and travel reimbursement to and from SAR.
The fellowships support diverse creative disciplines and can include sculpture, performance, basketry, painting, printmaking, digital art, mixed media, photography, pottery, writing, and film and video.
Submissions Due: January 15th
Info + Submissions: HERE
Helene Emergency Artist Residencies (HEAR)
This opportunity provides a variety of relief benefits to arts professionals working in literary, media, performing, visual, and interdisciplinary arts.
Applicants must currently reside in one of the affected counties
Must be actively working in one of the following artistic fields: literary, media, performing, visual, and interdisciplinary arts.
Applicants must have been substantially impacted by Hurricane Helene.
Compensation: 700 stipend + accommodations + access to creative studios
Submissions Due: January 3rd
Info + Submissions: HERE
** Publication Copy as Compensation **
Vulpecula Poetica
Fortuna Major Press invites emerging and established poets to submit creative nonfiction poetry for its annual anthology, Vulpecula Poetica.
This edition's theme focuses on memory, inviting works that speak into silence and the echoes of the past.
Delve into your origins. Speak into silence. Bring Vulpecula your poems saturated (or haunted) by places and people of another time.
Submissions Due: February 28th
Compensation: All included contributors will receive a complementary digital copy of the magazine.
Info + Submissions: HERE
** Rollover from December List Below**
** International Entries Welcomed **
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 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
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
** U.S Entries By Region **
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.
Submissions Due: January 11
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
** U.S Resident + Citizen Entries **
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
Submissions Due: Jan 3rd
Info + Submissions: HERE
Until next month friends,
—WP
Thank you for this compilation! I just submitted to one of them 🥳🤩
Thank you for this.