September Opportunity List
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Hey Everyone,
I hope you find this month’s list helpful and are feeling encouraged to apply! The list is a day early—I thought a little extra time couldn’t hurt.
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for writing tips and resources.Sun + Moon (By Broccoli Magazine)
Broccoli is developing a new, single issue, print-only, conceptual magazine. Half of the stories will revolve around the Sun and the other half, the Moon.
Seeking Non-Fiction story pitches that transport readers to a curious, entrancing, timeless realm of wonder rooted in strange delights of science, history, culture and myth.
Compensation: 50c per word, negotiated as flat fee at time of commission.
Submission Due: Sept 20 (9AM EST)
Pitches should be concise, show real care, deep thought, a singular perspective, and an irresistible curiosity.
Not currently taking poetry, fiction, astrological readings, reprinted articles or pre-written work
Stories will be assigned Sept 27th with first drafts due Late October/ Early November
To submit: editors@broccolimag.com
Please do not submit attachments (for ease, put your pitch in the body of the email) *
About Broccoli: https://broccolimag.com/pages/about#signup
+ there isn’t any info about this particular call listed on the site as opportunities are sent out by email.
Mc Coll Center
Artist in Residence Program
Best suited for U.S residents** although any artist from anywhere may apply for residency at McColl Center.
They accept artists working in painting, sculpture, phptography, film, video, new media, written or spoken word, or interdisciplinary practices.
Artists-in-Residence receive private housing adjacent to McColl Center, a large-scale private studio in our historic building in Uptown Charlotte, curatorial guidance, marketing and PR support, and a generous stipend. Families are welcome.
Compensation: 6000, childcare (free summer camp ages 6-14)
Submissions Due: Septemeber 23
https://mccollcenter.org/programs/residency
Patrick Henry History Fellowship
Applicants should have a significant project currently in progress — a book, film, oral history archive, podcast series, museum exhibition, or similar work.
The project should address the history and/or legacy – broadly defined – of the U.S. founding era and/or the nation’s founding ideas.
We encourage a broad reading of such terms as “founders” and “founding ideas.” Past fellowship topics have ranged as broadly as the early history of the slave trade, American religious minorities, and the LGBTQ rights movement.
Compensation: $45,000 stipend, health benefits, faculty privileges, a book allowance, and a nine-month residency (during the academic year) in a historic 18th-century house in Chestertown, Md.
Submissions Open: Sometime in September
https://www.washcoll.edu/learn-by-doing/starr/Fellowships/patrick_henry_fellowship/index.php
Stanford University
Wallace Stegner Fellowship
Anyone interested in the Stegner Fellowship is welcome to apply! Prior book publication is not required; note that prior publication may suggest a career that has advanced beyond the point when the fellowship’s instruction and workshop critique are most useful in a writer's development.
In awarding fellowships, we consider the quality of the candidate’s creative work, potential for growth, and ability to contribute to and profit from our writing workshops. Our fellows are diverse in style and experience, with talent and seriousness the true common denominators.
Compensation: $50,000 living stipend + Tuition + Health Insurance
Submission Due: November 1st
They will assist in acquiring the appropriate visa if you are located outside of the U.S
https://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship/wallace-stegner-fellowship
The Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry
Awarded annually to two book-length poetry manuscripts submitted in a national competition, selected by an outside judge.
Submissions Due: Sept 15
Its $28 to submit, which I know this is a barrier for some!
If so, please check out Poetry Bulletin that helps with submission fees for poets here ←
Compensation: $1,500 plus publication by the University of Wisconsin Press, and three additional finalists will also be offered publishing contracts, as part of the Wisconsin Poetry Series.
https://creativewriting.wisc.edu/fellowsapply/
THE HODDER FELLOWSHIP
The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year.
Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are selected more “for promise than for performance.”
Compensation: A $92,000 stipend is provided for this 10-month appointment.
Submissions Due: September 10
https://arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/hodder-fellowship/
Foundwork Artist Prize
The Foundwork Artist Prize is an annual juried grant recognizing outstanding emerging and mid-career artists working in any media.
Compensation:$10,000 grant and remote studio visits with each of this year’s esteemed jurors.
The honoree—and three shortlisted artists—will also be invited for long-form interviews, as part of the Foundwork Dialogues program, to further public engagement with their work.
Submissions Due: September 26
https://foundwork.art/artist-prize
Grassroots Thinking
Looking for articles centering Black Liberation and Black Radical Politics to be published on our website
Compensation: 75 via cashapp
Send your article of 1-3 pages to georgeboykins187@gmail.com
Title your email “Grassroots Thinking”
There was no submission date included, but the listing was posted on Aug 15th. Could be helpful to send an email to inquire.
Autumn House Press
The 2025 Rising Writer Prize is for a first full-length book of fiction.
Compensation: Publication of your full-length manuscript and $2,000
Submissions Due: Nov 15
There is a submissions fee of $30, but waivers are offered.
Waiver Guidelines:
https://www.autumnhouse.org/fee-waiver-guidelines/
Submissions:
https://www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/rising-writers-prize/
The MSU Museum CoLab Studio
Blurred Realities Exhibition
This exhibition and public programming series will delve into contemporary questions that challenge our perception and understanding of what is authentic. With the rise of 3D-printed materials, generative AI, deep fakes, synthetic voices, and simulated realities, how do we distinguish between genuine information and deceptive fabrications?
Compensation: Up to $3,000 for production costs, shipping, etc. Proposals require a budget draft upon submission.
Submissions Due: Nov 15
https://museum.msu.edu/explore/colab-studio/colab-studio-open-call/
The 2024 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize
Accepting Poetry manuscripts (Check link for submissions details)
Submissions Due: Sept 30
This submission has a $28 submissions fee. I know this may inaccessible for some.
If so, please check out Poetry Bulletin at the link below.They assist with entry fees for poets.
https://www.poetrybulletin.com/poetry-fee-support
Compensation: $10,000 + Publication (a standard royalty contract) and 10 copies of the published book. + Residency at Vermont Studio Center
https://texasreview.submittable.com/submit/1489/the-x-j-kennedy-poetry-prize
Phoebe
The phoebe nonfiction team is looking for personal, lyric, and journalistic essays (and everything in between!) that embrace complexity and explore unique topics, ideas, and connections.
Submissions Due: October 15
Compensation: $30 per accepted poem, essay, story, and piece of visual art, as well as a copy of the print issue upon publication.
There is a $3 submissions fee which can we waived at the email below.
Phoebe makes every effort to be open to all and closed to no one. We welcome submissions from BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and international writers and artists. For writers and artists for whom the submission fee presents a hardship, fee waivers can be requested by emailing us at phoebeliterature@gmail.com
https://phoebe.submittable.com/submit
Consequence Forum
Seeking fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, and visual art that address the consequences, experiences, or realities of war or geopolitical violence.
Submissions Due: October 15
Compensation: 20 - 200
Payment varies based on type of submission. Check link below for more info
https://www.consequenceforum.org/submissions/
Perugia Press Prize
The Perugia Press Prize, is an annual national contest for first or second books of poetry by women.
Compensation: $2,000 and book publication, Twenty author copies and an ongoing discount of 50% off of the cover price for additional copies other support.
Time to work with the editor to create a book she loves with input into book editing, design & promotion
Submissions Due: Nov 15
https://perugiapress.org/contest/
Doozy Magazine
'F for Fake' Exhibition
We are interested in the potential for games of illusion and trickery that the theme 'F for Fake' affords. 'F for Fake' is ostensibly a film about art forgery, fake journalism, hoaxes, and the tender precipice of illusion and reality that straddles the fourth wall of belief/disbelief.
Submissions Due: September 10
Compensation: All profits from the night will be split between artists.
Off Assignment
Personal Essay Submissions
Off Assignment is a literary magazine with a penchant for journeys and a fascination with strangers. We’re looking for writers who travel, poets who wander, essayists with a sense of place, reporters with swollen notebooks, and gourmands with street cart taste.
Seeking submissions for 4 Categories
Letter to a Stranger
Who haunts you?
We all harbor thoughts about the strangers at the edges of our lives. Write a letter to an unshakable stranger you’ve met along the way, whether travelling across the world, the country, or down the street.
No Equivalent
What is one word you have come across that resists being ferried over into English? Write about one of these untranslatable words, and the role it has played in your personal geography or voyages.
Under the Influence
The art we surround ourselves with affects our reality. What happens when we use authors or artists as guides to our travels, near and far? Which artist’s presence accompanies you down a street or rests with you on a park bench? Tell us about the interplay between art and reality, and how the lens of each showed you something interesting about the other.
What I Didn't Say
Any writer knows that, often, the most interesting part of the assignment doesn’t make it into the story. Revisit the experiences that have stuck with you, the happenings that didn’t bend into the margins of the assignment, but that persist in your memory. This isn’t a behind-the-scenes travel diary—this is the story behind the story.
Compensation: 100 - 300
***Submissions Due: TODAY Sept 1***
Our Bold Voices
New Queer Voices Sought
We are seeking no-cost story pitches for our new anthology, Defiant Moments. We will take a deeper dive into ways we have advocated for ourselves and/or others in addressing inequities and stigmatization as members of the LGBTQ+ community. We are particularly interested in narratives that explore intersectional identities.
Submissions Due: Sept 30th
Compensation: Unstated (I believe there is an honorarium offered but the amount is unstated)
https://www.ourboldvoices.com/call-for-story-pitches-from-our-bold-voices-defiant-moments/
ORIONS BELT
LITERARY SPECULATIVE FICTION ONLINE MAGAZINE
Seeks: the strange and poignant and awe-inspiring, stories that have a cosmic scale and intimate personal stakes. Stories and poems must contain significant speculative elements.
Compensation: Up to 100
***Submissions Due: TODAY Sept 1***
Send Submissions to orionsbelt.submissions@gmail.com.
subject line of your email should be a variation of “Submission - Story Name (Author Name, Fiction/Poetry).”
https://www.orions-belt.net/submissions?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
HIPPOCAMPUS MAGAZINE
Accepting: Personal Essays & Memoir Excerpts, max 4,000 words.
Flash Creative Nonfiction, max 800 words.
We seek:
True tales from your life. Honesty that possesses both the situation AND the story. Intensely personal experiences that reflect universal truths about what it means to be human. Firsthand accounts from the FULL spectrum of humanity – folx from the LGBTQIA+ community, Black writers, Indigenous writers, and writers of Color, disabled writers, writers of all ages, genders, backgrounds, experiences, lifestyles, and identities.
Submissions Due: November 30
Compensation: 40 via Paypal within 90 days
* Regular submissions come with a $3 submission fee. However, for those unable to cover the fee, we maintain a Submission Fund.
https://hippocampusmagazine.submittable.com/submit/
Witness at Black Mountain Institute
Witness seeks original fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that is innovative in its approach, broad-ranging in its concerns, and unapologetic in its perspective.
The magazine blends the features of a literary and an issue-oriented magazine to highlight the role of the modern writer as witness to their times.
Submissions Due: Opening sometime in September for their Spring themed issue.
Compensation: $50 per published piece, whether in a print or online issue. All contributors also receive one (1) copy of the issue in which their work appears.
https://witnessmagazine.submittable.com/submit
Cinncinnati Review
Accepting Poetry, Fiction, Fiction Translations, Literary Non-Fiction, Poetry Translations, Drama.
Compensation: $25/ page for prose and $30/page for poetry in the print journal and $25 for miCRo posts or special features.
Submissions Due: Unstated, they take submissions until they reach their cap.
https://www.cincinnatireview.com/submission-guidelines-2021/
BURNAWAY MAGAZINE
Seeks: Southern/Caribbean Artists and Researchers to submit proposals to be included in Burnaway magazine’s 2025 Mood Ring Column.
Anyone anyone from the American South/Caribbean is welcome to apply, but those based in Alabama, Arkansas, the Caribbean, the Carolinas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia are strongly encouraged to apply!
The format of Mood Ring is meant to be free-flowing, adaptable to a variety of artist projects, and specific to the digital realm. Works can be small studies related to a larger developing project, new works that can be adapted for online publication, or pieces of long-form writing about an area of research interest.
Compensation: 750
Submissions Due: Sept 13
https://burnaway.org/daily/2025-mood-ring-open-call/
Uncanny Magazine
Call for Short Story Submissions
Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse speculative fiction and flash fiction (750-10,000 words)from writers from every conceivable background.They want intricate, experimental stories and poems with gorgeous prose, verve, and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs. Uncanny believes there’s still plenty of room in the genre for tales that make you feel.
Compensation: Up to 1000 + Audio Rights
Submissions Due: Sept 2
https://uncannymagazine.moksha.io/publication/uncanny-magazine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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***NEXT 5 LISTINGS BY U.S STATE ***
(Opportunities continue Below)
STATE OF NEW YORK
CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS - Artist in Residence
Each year, Center for Book Arts awards up to six New York-based emerging and mid-career artists with space, time, and financial support to explore the production and exhibition of artists’ books and related work in a year-long residency.
Compensation: 1500 + tuition waiver for up to $6000 in courses offered at CBA during the residency period, and 24-hour access to CBA's printing and binding studios in Manhattan.
Submissions Due: Sept 15
https://centerforbookarts.submittable.com/submit/298928/2025-artist-in-residence
READINGS AND WORKSHOPS GRANTS
The Readings & Workshops program pays fees to writers who participate in public readings or teach creative writing workshops in diverse community settings throughout New York State.
We offer three grant types to help meet the needs of a variety of presenters:
The Mini-Grant for individual readings ($150 to $450 per session) and/or workshops ($200 to $300 per session);
The Readings Series Grant for writers participating in a reading series (up to $1,500 per series);
The Festival Grant for writers participating in readings and/or creative writing workshops that are part of a literary festival (up to $1,500 per festival).
Submission Due: September 30
https://www.pw.org/content/readings_workshops_grants
Graywolf Press (NYC or Twin Cities of Minnesota)
Graywolf Press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.
Seeking: Development Director (Salary)
The Development Director is responsible for designing and leading fundraising from individuals, foundations, and corporations, including major-donor drives, sponsorships, planned giving, and the annual fund; developing a pipeline to identify, cultivate, and solicit donors in several key markets.
Compensation: Starts at 125,000
Submission Due: Sept 20
https://graywolfpress.submittable.com/submit/300682/graywolf-press-development-director
STATE OF VERMONT
VERMONT ARTIST DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
Grants can fund activities that enhance mastery of an artist’s craft or skills or that increase the viability of an artist’s business. Funding may also support aspects of the creation of new work when the activity allows the grantee to accept a rare and important opportunity.
Compensation: Up to 2000
Deadline: September 10
https://www.vermontartscouncil.org/grants/find-a-grant/artists/artist-development/
STATE OF ARIZONA
LITERARY SOCIETY OF THE SOUTHWEST GRANT
The society celebrates contemporary literature and authors and promotes literacy in Arizona.
Submissions Open: September 1
Compensation: 1000
https://literarysoc.com/page-1075299
ROLLOVER OPPORTUNITIES FROM LAST MONTH
(Scholarships + Exhibition Opportunities + Africa & UK Based Opportunities Continued Below)
SUNDRESS PUBLICATIONS
Writing Fellowship for LGBTQIA2S+ Community
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: TODAY September 1st***
https://www.sundresspublications.com/submit
Writing Fellowship for Black & Indigenous Writers
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:TODAY September 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
Midnight + Indigo (Supporting Black Woman Writers)
Seeking speculative works + essays
Submissions Due: TODAY September 1st
Compensation: 0.07cents per word
https://www.midnightandindigo.com/write-for-us/
The Speculative Literature Foundation
The Working Class Writers Grant
Submission Due: Sept 30
Compensation: 1000
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
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/
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/
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: October 1
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
Applications Due: Dec 13
https://dramatistsguildfoundation.submittable.com/submit
Writing Scholarships (Online)
Curtis Brown Creative
Breakthrough Scholarship for Fantasy Writers with Low Income
This scholarship will award one talented speculative writer with limited financial means a place on our new nine-week online Writing Fantasy course.
Submission Due: September 22
Compensation: British Fantasy Award-winner Lucy Holland (also writing as Lucy Hounsom) will guide you through the essential elements of the genre – from using and subverting traditional tropes to worldbuilding and creating a diverse cast of characters with genuine depth and intrigue – crucial for sustaining your story over the course of a novel or series.
Curtis Brown Creative
Breakthrough YA & Children's Fiction Scholarship for Writers of Colour
This scholarship will award one talented writer of colour with limited financial means a place on our three-month Writing YA & Children's Fiction course.
Submission Due: October 6
Compensation: This scholarship will provide the full course fee for a talented writer of colour with limited financial means to study on our three-month online Writing YA & Children's Fiction course led by award-winning author Catherine Johnson.
Snap Collective seeks visual artists: publish your art book with no investment
SNAP Collective is an innovative and dynamic art book publishing house based in Copenhagen specialized in producing high-quality publications featuring emerging and established artists.
Compensation: Royalties + Free Book Copies
https://app.snap-collective.com/#/sfw/mray
NEXT 2 ARE UNPAID PUBLICATION OR EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
(Opportunities for African and U.K Based Writers Continue Below)
TENT, DIGITAL/GLOBAL
An open call on the theme of ‘apparitions’, traces, specters, visitants, vestiges, reoccurrences, memories, and re-visions. We are looking for text and visual material creative and critical writings, photography, artworks, poetry, projects, documents, research] that call upon the theme of ‘apparitions’ conceptually and/or aesthetically. Selected submissions will be collected into a print publication.
Compensation: Copy of publication, networking, and mentoring.
https://tent.press/open-call-apparitions
SomoS Arts, Berlin
Casting a Spell Exhibition
Suitable for writers exploring mixed media *
SomoS Arts, in collaboration with curator Arianna Forte, invites submissions for our exhibition "Casting a Spell in Computational Regimes: Ritual Practices for a Trans-Feminist Counter-Apocalypse."
They seek digital esoteric rituals challenging digital capitalism and gender inequalities. Explore the intersection of magic, technology, and esotericism.
Submission Due: Sept 15
Compensation: Exhibition opportunity at Somos Arts
https://somos-arts.org/call-for-projects-casting-a-spell/
Opportunity for Africa Born Writers
The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry
Awarded annually to an African poet who has not yet published a collection of poetry. The winner receives USD $1000 and book publication through the University of Nebraska Press and Amalion in Senegal.
An “African writer” is taken to mean someone who was born in Africa, who is a national or resident of an African country, or whose parents are African.
Submissions Open: September 15th
The Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship
African Writer ( Born in Africa or w/ Africa Born parents)
Fiction + Non-Fiction
Submission Due: 20th September
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
Curtis Brown Creative
*Must be LONDON BASED, or close enough to attend in person*
Breakthrough Scholarship for TV Screenwriters with Low Income
One talented screenwriter with limited financial means will receive a fully paid place on this course, led by celebrated screenwriter and producer Marston Bloom.
Submissions Due: Oct 20
Compensation: This 3 Month screenwriting scholarship will enable a talented writer with limited financial means to join our Writing TV Drama
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.
Compensation: £500
https://thewhitepube.co.uk/grants/
Until November friends!
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