It’s September at The Whole Utopianotes Catalog! Behold the golden meadow of grants, fellowships, fully-funded writer & artist residencies, submission calls, open reading periods, jobs, gigs, wet sticks, sharp stones, the noble purple aster & more. There is something here for you. There is more than enough for everyone.

One more thing before the listings: the audiobook of Heaven is a Place on Earth is out now on Spotify and everywhere audiobooks live, and if you've been curious about the thinking behind this newsletter—the utopianotes framework, the obsession with cooperative experiments and alternative economies and things that shouldn’t have been able to exist but did anyway—it's probably the most direct route in. The book is where I worked out, over years of research and digression, a belief that more is possible than imperial logic wants us to think. This newsletter is where I act on that belief, twice a month, by finding and handing over a maximalist heap of things to pave the way to something that felt once out of reach. Anyway, it takes a lot of hours and it is one of the things that keeps the lights on here at The Mutual Aid Society—so if the catalog has ever landed something useful in your hands, or you've just been meaning to, a paid subscription is the most direct way to say so. It also gets you the mid-month Extra edition and a chance to get my help on a project or an application.

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«(NEW)» 2026 VMFA Aaron Siskind Award for Photography
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to sponsor the VMFA Aaron Siskind Award for excellence in contemporary photography. Two artists will each receive an unrestricted prize of $25,000.
Deadline: September 2, 2026

«(NEW)» Photo Urbanism Fellowship
The Design Trust is pleased to announce the launch of the 2026-2027 Photo Urbanism Fellowship and the opening of a call for photographers. Award includes a $10,000 stipend and a solo exhibition
Deadline: September 2, 2026

Winston Salem Artist Support Grant
Provides direct support to individual artists and small unincorporated groups of collaborating artists for professional and artistic development, skill enhancement, or business operations improvement.
Deadline: September 4, 2026

Oregon Book Awards
Annual cash awards for original work published between September 1, 2025 and August 31, 2026 across six categories: Poetry, Fiction, General Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Children’s Literature, and Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature.
Deadline: September 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Jonathan Larson Grant
The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment by the American Theatre Wing in individual musical theatre talent.
Deadline: September 4, 2026

«(NEW)» CTM Radio Lab / In Listening 2027
Open call for experimental sound/audio art works. Two selected works receive EUR 6,000 each.
Deadline: September 6, 2026

«(NEW)» 2027 Erie Canal Artists in Residence
Seeking projects that reflect on the Erie Canal’s past, contemplate its present, and consider its future. All visual mediums welcome. Local and Indigenous artists preferred. Two selected artists will each receive a $10,000 stipend.
Deadline: September 6, 2026

«(NEW)» Jennifer Weiner Fellowship at Blue Stoop
A 3-month fellowship (Feb-May 2027) for woman-identified emerging prose writers in the greater Philadelphia area.
Deadline: September 8, 2026

Princeton University - Two Artist Fellowships: Hodder & PAF
Princeton Arts Fellowships - 2 years, teaching required, open to dance, music, theater artists. Hodder Fellowships - 1 year, no teaching, open to dance, music, theater, and visual artists.
Deadline: September 8, 2026

«(NEW)» Teiger Foundation Hosting Grant
Awards grants of up to $75,000 to support US-based curators or artistic directors presenting a contemporary visual art exhibition or project that originated elsewhere, adapted meaningfully within the context of their own institution and community.
Deadline: September 9, 2026

«(NEW)» AFI DWW+
The AFI DWW+ is a tuition-free year-long directing program, open to all applicants, that supports emerging narrative filmmakers through the production cycle of a short film, providing hands-on instruction led by industry experts.
Deadline: September 9, 2026

Dezi Art Prize
A global juried art grant for emerging and early-career visual artists. Two winners each receive a $1,000 unrestricted grant plus a featured profile.
Deadline: September 10, 2026

Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship 2027-28
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship program offers scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists a chance to pursue ambitious projects for a full academic year at Harvard University.
Deadline: September 10, 2026

PRISMA Art Prize — Rome
Prisma Art Prize opens its 20th edition, continuing its mission as an international platform dedicated to painting and two-dimensional artistic research.
Deadline: September 10, 2026

«(NEW)» Brave New Visions: Creativity As Rebellion
Photographers and video makers from around the world to submit work that engages with the present through original and compelling visual storytelling. $12,000 in total grants awarded to three artists; Presentation at the next PhotoVogue Festival.
Deadline: September 11, 2026

«(NEW)» University of Arts London Storytelling Research Fellows
6 fellows to research how pop culture contributes to social and environmental change.
Deadline: September 11, 2026

«(NEW)» The 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art (Gibbes Museum)
Annual prize for an artist whose work contributes to a new understanding of art in the South; any media. Monetary prize and exhibition.
Deadline: September 14, 2026

«(NEW)» Center for Urban Pedagogy Making Policy Public Fellowship
Graphic designers and illustrators collaborate with community organizations on social justice policy projects.
Deadline: September 14, 2026

Fund for Investigative Journalism
Grants and other support for reporters to produce high-quality, unbiased, nonpartisan investigative stories that have an impact. Currently accepting applications for Regular grants (up to $10,000) and Seed funding (up to $2,500) for preliminary reporting that can lead to full investigations.
Deadline: September 14, 2026

«(NEW)» Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art WritingGulf — Gulf Coast Journal
Gulf Coast invites entries for the 2026 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. Win $3,000 for first place or $1,000 as a runner-up. This year’s judge is critic Andrew Berardini.
Deadline: September 14, 2026

«(NEW)» Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants Cycle 38
This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need, creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Ambroggio Prize
The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Les Paul Foundation Grant
The Les Paul Foundation supports music education, recording, innovation, and medical research related to hearing.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» CAA Publication Grants
The Millard Meiss Fund and Wyeth Foundation for American Art Grant support the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Hamiltonian Teaching Artist Residency
A new Teaching Artist Residency offers practicing visual artists a paid MFA-level teaching post plus fully funded housing and studio space in Washington, DC.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

Dartmouth Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life Fellowship
This fellowship supports a mid-career writer, working in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or whose work engages Black intellectual, cultural, and creative life. Stipend: $3,500/mo for six months.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Writing Fellowships
Approximately $65,000 each for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Community Engagement Artists and Creatives Grant (CA)
The Artists and Creatives Grant provides financial support (between $500 and $2,500) to those making or presenting creative work relating to or encouraging community engagement. Open to artists living or working in California.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

Eppley Foundation for Research Grants
Grants up to $30,000 for research in chemistry, physics, biology, innovative medical fields, and climate change.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

Kluge Fellowships
Library of Congress fellowships providing $5,000 per month for 4-11 months. 12 fellowships awarded annually for scholars across disciplines.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

Dedalus foundation Senior Fellowship in Art History
The Dedalus Foundation invites applications to its Senior Fellowship which supports art historians, critics, and curators pursuing projects related to painting, sculpture and allied arts from the twentieth century.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

Summer 2026 - $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art & Photo
1 x $1,800.00 Grant to Visual Artist. 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to Photographer. 18 x Honorable Mentions.
Deadline: September 17, 2026

«(NEW)» Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York + Transmitter Gallery — TNT Residency
Apply for a 6-month fully funded studio in NYC culminating in a solo exhibition or open studio event. $250 honorarium and professional installation shots included. Priority given to underrepresented artists.
Deadline: September 18, 2026

The Bennett Prize 2026/2027 Award Cycle
For women figurative realist painters. Grand prize winner receives $75,000 and a solo exhibition.
Deadline: September 19, 2026

Miles Morland African Writing Scholarships
Scholarships of £18,000 paid monthly over twelve months for English language writers born in Africa or with both parents born in Africa.
Deadline: September 22, 2026

«(NEW)» PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Annual prize for a book of fiction published during the current year; four finalists receive $5,000 each; readings in Washington, D.C.
Deadline: September 25, 2026

«(NEW)» Meganne George Women Work Short Play Festival
New Perspectives Theatre Company is accepting submissions from playwrights and directors for the Meganne George Women Work Short Play Festival, celebrating work by and about women.
Deadline: September 25, 2026

Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship - NYPL
The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center Fellowship provides scholars and creative writers with a $90,000 stipend, a private office in NYPL, and more.
Deadline: September 25, 2026

«(NEW)» 2026 Foundwork Artist Prize — Foundwork
The honoree will receive a $10,000 grant and studio visits with jurors Stefan Benchoam, François Ghebaly, Manuela Moscoso, Gabi Ngcobo, Esther Schipper. Three shortlisted artists will receive $1,000 grants.
Deadline: September 25, 2026

Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists
Two emerging visual artists in NYC’s five boroughs receive $20,000 each plus professional development, mentorship, and a solo exhibition at the Queens Museum,
Deadline: September 28, 2026

«(NEW)» Tom Stoddard Award for Excellence x GOST Books
Award for established photographers in long-form documentary photography: a photo book produced by GOST Books, GBP 5,000 toward expenses, travel to printing in Verona, and publicity in The Guardian.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» The Keller Prize 2026
An annual international art contest celebrating artists across all mediums. Open to artists 18+ from around the world, The Keller Prize provides a platform for emerging and established artists to gain recognition and exposure.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» American Australian Association Arts Fund Grants & Scholarships
The CULTIVER Visual Arts Scholarship, offered in partnership with CULTIVER, provides USD $10,000 to an American visual artist to undertake at least one month of full-time artistic development in Australia.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship
For emerging and distinguished writers who have published at least one book with a trade or literary press, this fellowship includes: compensation of $46,500 paid over a nine-month period; a nine-month-long letter of appointment, and more.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Generator Fund
Unrestricted grants for artists in Erie and Niagara Counties, New York. Supports artistic projects and professional development.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

SLF Working Class Writers Grant
A $1,000 annual grant for speculative fiction writers who are working class, blue-collar, financially disadvantaged, or homeless and have been historically underrepresented due to financial barriers.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» The Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship 2027
Fourteen AIM Fellows are awarded a nine-month practicum led by a distinguished faculty of experts who cover finance, law, media management, and writing, among other subjects vital to maintaining and growing a successful career as an artist.
Deadline: October 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Data Theatre Pilot Grant
The Data Theatre Collaborative is offering five $5,000 pilot grants to support faculty, community-based researchers, artists, and civic practitioners in developing their own data theatre projects.
Deadline: October 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Paul R. Judy Center Grant
The Paul R. Judy Center Grant at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester provides funding for research and innovative projects. Grants will range from $5000-$10,000.
Deadline: October 1, 2026

Printed Matter Publisher Work Grant
Offers funding to independent presses with a history of artists’ book publishing, acknowledging awardees’ accomplishments in past work and providing the capacity-building funds. In 2026, three unrestricted grants of $10,000 will be awarded to three independent artists’ book publishers.
Deadline: October 9, 2026

«(NEW)» Brooklyn Arts Council Grants
Brooklyn Arts Fund is for arts and cultural projects that contribute to creative experiences for audiences in Brooklyn. BAC Grants strive to support local artists and small arts organizations whose work enhances the cultural climate of our borough, city, state, and nation.
Deadline: October 11, 2026.

«(NEW)» Creative Equations Fund
The Creative Equations Fund (CEF) is BAC’s latest regranting initiative dedicated to supporting Brooklyn’s creatives and cultural ecosystem with a focused investment strategy for creatives dedicated to arts for social justice.  This program supports community-engaged artists, arts organizations, cultural entrepreneurs, and researchers who have dedicated their creativity to solving social problems. Grant awards are up to $10,000 each.
Deadline: October 11, 2026

«(NEW)» Pedantic Arts — Pedantic Arts Residency + The Grant
Creatives and researchers are invited to apply to a 4-week Pittsburgh residency. Applications are also being accepted for The Grant, an opportunity that invites a visual artist, curator, or writer to conduct Pittsburgh-related research.
Deadline: October 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Smithsonian American Art Museum — 2027–2028 Research Fellowships
Residential fellowships at SAAM support full-time, independent research on US art, craft, and visual culture. Appointments are available at graduate, predoctoral, postdoctoral, and senior levels.
Deadline to apply: October 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Simons Foundation — Open Interval: Turbulence
A collaborative program that supports artists, scientists and arts organizations to engage in creative exchange. Awardees receive $30,000 and nine months to explore together.
Deadline: October 21, 2026

«(NEW)» American-Scandinavian Foundation: Fellowships for Americans
The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) offers long term (4-12 months) fellowships of up to $23,000 and short term (1-3 months) fellowships of up to $5,000 to individuals interested in pursuing research or creative-arts projects in the Nordic region.
Deadline: November 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Harry Ransom Center – 2027–2028 Fellowships
The center will award up to 50 funded fellowships to support on-site archival projects across various disciplines at the University of Texas at Austin’s humanities research library and museum.
Deadline: November 6, 2026

International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF)
Multiple grants programs available for women, nonbinary or trans journalists, with funds available for indigenous journalists, newsroom safety, & more.
Deadline: Rolling

Reel Change: Fund for Diversity in Film Scoring
Reel Change supports developing composers who are creating music for film through targeted grants and high-impact mentorship. The fund supports projects currently in production where additional funding and/or mentoring would be beneficial to the quality of the score and to the advancement of the composer’s career. Four to six grants averaging $20,000 are awarded each year.
Deadline: Rolling

Institute for Humane Studies – Expense & Event Support Grants
Grants supporting research, travel, collaborations, and academic events within the liberal tradition.
Deadline: Rolling

Economic Hardship Reporting Project – Reporting Grants
Grants for journalism on poverty, labor, and economic precarity in the U.S.
Deadline: Rolling

IndieSpace Grants
Multiple funding programs for historically excluded artists, small companies, and indie venues, open year-round or at varying times.
Deadline: Varies

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Supports visual and performing artists with urgent funding for unexpected opportunities or expenses.
Deadline: Ongoing

CERF+ Emergency Grants
Emergency relief grants for artists in craft or materials-based disciplines who have experienced a career-threatening emergency.
Deadline: Rolling

Sloan Distribution Grant
The Sloan Distribution Grant is a $50,000 grant awarded by Film Independent to a film that is entering its distribution phase.
Deadline: Rolling

Max’s Kansas City Project - Emergency Grants
Max’s Emergency Relief & Resource Fund is a one-time grant of between $500 and $1000 to assist self-employed artists who are New York State Residents and who have a steady work history, but who are experiencing a temporary financial set back.
Deadline: Ongoing

National Gallery of Iceland Artist Residency
The National Gallery of Iceland offers a funded artist residency. The selected artist will spend one to two months in Reykjavik in 2027.
Deadline: September 3, 2026

«(NEW)» Dora Maar House Fellowship
A residency fellowship for writers at Dora Maar House in France, offering time and space for focused creative work. Ménerbes, France
Deadline: September 6, 2026

2027 Erie Canal Artists in Residence
Seeking projects that reflect on the Erie Canal’s past, contemplate its present, and consider its future. All visual mediums welcome. Local and Indigenous artists preferred. Two selected artists will each receive a $10,000 stipend.
Deadline: September 6, 2026

International Granada Writers in Residence Programme 2026
Granada UNESCO City of Literature and the University of Granada offer an international writers residency programme aimed at fostering connections between Granada writers and the global literary community.
Deadline: September 6, 2026

«(NEW)» Foundation House Artist Residency
A 10-day working residency for six artists of all disciplines in backcountry of Greenwich, CT.
Deadline: September 7, 2026

«(NEW)» Nocefresca Residency
Nocefresca is a residency that brings together artists, designers, writers and creative nomads from around the world. Our objective is for artists to focus on their projects while experiencing the inspiring environment of Sardinia island, Italy, rich in nature, history and culture.
Deadline: September 7, 2026

ON::View Artist Residency
Located in Savannah, Georgia’s Starland District at ARTS Southeast, the fully-funded ON::View Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space, lodging, and $500 stipend for an artist or curator to complete a new project, continue an...
Deadline: September 7, 2026

«(NEW)» New_ Public Entrepreneur in Residence (Pilot)
Pilot virtual residency seeking two focused entrepreneurs beginning mid-October, exploring (1) humans connecting to humans and (2) local and civic information environments.
Deadline: September 9, 2026

«(NEW)» Base Residency
The Base Residency is an immersive, two-week residency experience at Base in Seattle. The program encourages movement-based artists to explore new and risk-taking ideas, expand on existing ones, and/or take time to deepen their artistic practice or creative work. Priority will be given to artists who can commit to making full and extensive use of their time at Base; $2000 stipend.
Deadline: September 10, 2026

«(NEW)» School of Poetic Scores Residency
We invite five practitioners at the intersection of poetry and performance living in Creative Europe countries* (excluding Germany) to apply to participate in the School of Poetic Scores at Cittipunkt in Berlin. A total stipend of 1800 € (for 60 days); Travel allowance of 400€ for travel distances under 5000 km and 800€ for travel distances from 5000 km; Shared accommodation for two months in Berlin; Shared rehearsal and work spaces will be made available during scheduled times at Cittipunkt; Depending on personal circumstances, each participant may be eligible for one or more mobility, visa, or family topups, and/or accessibility support
Deadline: September 10, 2026

Studio Alta Residencies 2027 - House of Research
10-day residency Apr 19-28, 2027 in Czech Republic. Artist fee CZK 12,000 per project for early-phase artistic research.
Deadline: September 10, 2026

MacDowell Fellowship
MacDowell in Petersborough, New Hampshire, provides time, space, and an inspiring residential environment to artists of exceptional talent. All disciplines.
Deadline: September 10, 2026

«(NEW)» Woodward Guest Residency
Guest residency program at the Woodward Residency in Ridgewood, Queens, open to writers, filmmakers, artists, designers and other creative practitioners.
Deadline: September 13, 2026

«(NEW)» Villa Barr Art Park Artist In Residency 2027
The Villa Barr Art Park Artist Residency in Novi, MI, offers a unique retreat for artists to create and explore. The sculpture park and studios are located in in the countryside outside Detroit, on beautifully landscaped grounds with a pond and mature trees and gardens. The residency provides private studio space, onsite housing for selected visiting artists, and access to wood and metal-working tools. $500 stipend and private studio space, as well as a $500 travel stipend.
Deadline: September 14, 2026

«(NEW)» Art Omi: Artists Residency Program
Through a competitive jury process, residents are invited to attend Art Omi’s residencies at no cost, except travel expenses. This deadline is specifically for visual artists. (See below for other disciplines). Ghent, New York
Deadline: September 14, 2026

«(NEW)» Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency Program
Founded in 1962 by Edward Albee, the Edward F. Albee Foundation has maintained the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center (aka “The Barn”) in Montauk, Long Island, for nearly 60 years. Serving writers and visual artists from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance.
Deadline: September 14, 2026

«(NEW)» Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards and Archibald Cason Edwards Sr Fellowship
Established in 2013 by VCCA Fellow Mary D. Edwards, this fully-funded, two-week fellowship aims to support female-identifying visual artists, with strong preference given to Native Americans.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

Jentel Artist Residency
Located 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming, the Jentel Artist Residency, now in its 25th year, offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment to further their artistic development. ll disciplines welcome.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York + Transmitter Gallery — TNT Residency
Apply for a 6-month fully funded studio in NYC culminating in a solo exhibition or open studio event. $250 honorarium and professional installation shots included. Priority given to underrepresented artists.
Deadline: September 18, 2026

Monson Winter Residency
Monson Arts offers a winter residency for visual artists and writers, providing housing, studio and meals. Monson, ME.
Deadline: September 19, 2026

«(NEW)» Mothership Residency
A residency program for mothers of children ages 0-2, hosted by Stryx. The residency provides dedicated time and space for mother-artists to focus on their creative practice while accommodating the needs of early motherhood.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Akron Soul Train Residency
Akron Soul Train welcomes regional artists from various disciplines, encompassing visual, performing, and written arts, to submit their applications.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» SCG Artist in Residence & Teaching Program 2027
The SCG ART program brings established artists to Placer County for the purpose of teaching and sharing their artistic talents and experience to the greater community. This residency offers a large studio space, funding for projects, and the opportunity to teach workshops in a formal setting, along with the ability to exhibit work in the studio space and offer pieces for sale throughout the duration of the residency.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» RONDO Residency — Spring 2027 Open Call
Rondo Residency is a program based in Mexico City, structured around four essential axes: Production, Theoretical, Art Market, and Public Relations.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Vermont Studio Center — Open Call for Summer and Fall 2027 Sessions
Artists and writers are invited to apply for a Vermont Studio Center residency. Sessions run for two, three, and four weeks, and include resident presentations, open studios, and an acclaimed Visiting Artists & Writers program.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Center for Book Arts - 2027 Workspace Artist Residency
Applications are now open for CBA’s 2027 Workspace Artist Residency! Center for Book Arts is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to furthering and uplifting the art of the book. New York, NY
Deadline: September 30, 2026

WORTHLESSSTUDIOS Photographer in Residence
The program is a one-month-long analog photography residency taking place inside an Airstream trailer converted into a darkroom in New York.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (EMAR)
The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (EMAR) program by Collar Works is designed to provide emerging, underrepresented, and established artists an immersive, supportive, productive, and communal atmosphere for art-making and dialogue. Granville / Washington County, New York
Deadline: October 1, 2026

«(NEW)» New Harmony Project Writers Residency
The 2027 program brings together writers working in theatre, film, and television, embracing the rich conversation that happens when storytellers across disciplines share ideas, questions, and craft. Writers are offered one-on-one consultations with theatrical dramaturgs and film/TV script advisors; participate in workshops with accomplished professionals from all three disciplines, both in person and virtually; and find opportunities to connect with others in an atmosphere of generosity and connection.
Deadline: October 1, 2026

Millay Arts Core Residency
The core residency features a creative cohort of 6-7 multidisciplinary artists, selected through our blind jury process, and includes private bedroom and studio (with bedding/linens), shared living spaces, laundry room, B&W darkroom, and access to...
Deadline: October 1, 2026

In Cahoots Residency
The In Cahoots Residency provides housing and studio space to emerging and professional artists working in a variety of mediums.
Deadline: October 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Trans Music Archive Recording Residency
Two trans artists / bands will be chosen for an eight day recording residency at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn, NY from December 12th through 19th.
Deadline: October 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Glass Box Studio Artist Residency
The Glass Box Studio Artist Residency at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, provides space and time for artists to experiment, explore, and produce individually development or collaborative artwork in any medium.
Deadline: October 1, 2026

Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writing Residency at The Mount
The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writing Residency offers one-week residencies during the month of March to nine emerging poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The Residency is hosted by The Mount, the former home of Edith Wharton, a 1902 Georgian revival mansion in Lenox, Massachusetts. Selected writers will receive a $500 stipend, travel reimbursement up to $250, dedicated workspaces at The Mount, and lodging at a neighboring inn in the Berkshires.
Deadline: October 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Art Omi Residencies
Architecture Residency 2027
Early-to-mid-career architects. May 27-Jun 14, 2027. Hudson Valley 120-acre campus with meals and workspace.
Music Residency 2027
Aug 12-30, 2027. Open to musicians, composers, and sound-makers of all genres. Hudson Valley campus.
Dance Residency 2027
Jul 22-Aug 9, 2027. Collaboration-focused residency, not oriented toward performance product. Hudson Valley, NY
Deadline: October 1, 2026

Camargo Fellowship
Since 1971, the Camargo Foundation has awarded 1,500 residencies to foster connections between research and creation.
Deadline: October 1, 2026

Center for the Arts Evergreen Artist-in-Residence Program
CAE offers 12-week residencies three times per year for emerging and established artists across all disciplines. Evergreen, CO
Deadline: October 2, 2026

«(NEW)» The Morgan Conservatory – Artist-in-Residence Program 2027
Papermaking, book arts, and letterpress printing at the nation’s largest center dedicated to these crafts. The residency offers emerging and established artists dedicated time, studio space, specialized equipment and a creative community.
Deadline: October 5, 2026

«(NEW)» Pedantic Arts — Pedantic Arts Residency + The Grant
Creatives and researchers are invited to apply to a 4-week Pittsburgh residency. Applications are also being accepted for The Grant, an opportunity that invites a visual artist, curator, or writer to conduct Pittsburgh-related research.
Deadline: October 15, 2026

The Cloud House Residency
The Cloud House Residency was established by Dreamsong co-founders to nurture meaningful connections between visiting artists, writers and curators, and the Twin Cities’ vibrant arts community.
Deadline: Rolling

The Basel House of Film Residency
The Basel House of Film offers residencies for artists working in the field of film and television.
Deadline: Rolling

Old Knitting Factory Writers Residency
Residency for writers across genres, open internationally, offering dedicated time and space to develop literary work
Deadline: Rolling

Langum Foundation Retreats
Summer residences for writing on history and literature, located in Port Townsend, Washington within the Langum homestead. The residence holder enjoys a five-week tenure on the first floor of the primary residence and a separate large study on the site.
Deadline: Rolling

Hub Feenix
1–3 month international residencies for visual artists, writers, journalists, musicians, and craftspeople. Inspiring rural setting with live/work environment. Finland.
Deadline: Rolling

Chokechaka Artist Residency
We welcome artists, musicians, curators, scholars, activists, cultural workers and creatives to join our community and support their work in this inspiring mountain setting. Nestled in Peru’s Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Deadline: Rolling

ART14 Residency
Rolling admission residency open to artists and writers of all skill levels. Patton, PA.
Deadline: Rolling

The Clemente’s Discounted Rehearsal Space Program
Offers BIPOC artists and performing arts organizations affordable rehearsal space in NYC at $15/hour.
Deadline: Rolling

Steel Yard Micro-Residencies
The Providence, RI-based program can assist you in growing and strengthening your creative industrial art practice with flexible time commitments of one to three months. One ceramics and one metals micro-resident are hosted at a time.
Deadline: Rolling (Apply 6 - 12 months in advance)

«(NEW)» Dogwood Literary Awards
Three prizes of $1,000 each plus publication for poem, short story, and essay.
Deadline: September 5, 2026

«(NEW)» Academy for Teachers Stories Out of School Flash Fiction Contest
$1,000 plus publication in Epiphany for flash fiction about teachers and school. Protagonist must be a K-12 teacher.
Deadline: September 6, 2026

«(NEW)» Stage 14C Open Call
Stage 14C is ARTS 14C’s new annual performing arts festival — three days when musicians, actors, dancers, comedians, poets, and multidisciplinary artists transform the Jersey City campus into a network of stages.
Deadline: September 8, 2026

«(NEW)» 2026 Nonfiction Hotlist
Accepting submissions for tandout nonfiction works in progress, spanning documentary features, shorts, series, podcasts, and reality. We connect creators with audiences, industry opportunities, and partners who can move a project forward.
Deadline: September 9, 2026

Hiding in Plain Site - International Public Art Short Film Festival
Short film festival in Minneapolis with a premiere on October 25, seeking short works 2 to 20 minutes in film, video art, experimental media, and XR that expand how public art is experienced.
Deadline: September 10, 2026

«(NEW)» Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art WritingGulf — Gulf Coast Journal
Gulf Coast invites entries for the 2026 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. Win $3,000 for first place or $1,000 as a runner-up. This year’s judge is critic Andrew Berardini.
Deadline: September 14, 2026

«(NEW)» safe + sound Radio Open Mic
Audio works under 7 minutes for an immersive sound installation at XMTR Festival in St Leonards on 27 September 2026.
Deadline: September 14, 2026

«(NEW)» The Amp (Asian American Arts Alliance’s magazine)
Looking for a cover artist for their next print issue! Previous editions have featured work by Samia Halaby and Rama Duwaji. This year’s theme, “Beyond Visibility.” A4 offers a modest $500 honorarium for this project.
Deadline: September 14, 2026

«(NEW)» Queering Wood Craft Open Call (Museum for Art in Wood)
Exhibition (April-July 2027) highlighting queer-identified makers working in wood, exploring intersections of contemporary wood practices and queer meanings.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» A Lesbian Appetite Mag - Dykes Who Like Sandwiches Submissions
A Lesbian Appetite Magazine is accepting submissions in all genres for its Dykes Who Like Sandwiches feature.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Awards
$5,000 for English translation of a Nordic language work; also $2,000 for unpublished translations.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» The McNeese Review Boudin Novelette Chap Book Contest
$1,000, 25 author copies, author signing at AWP 2027, and a 3-year subscription.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
First place $1,500 plus publication; 2nd and 3rd place $500 each. Open to all writers.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Willow Springs Magazine Surrealist Poetry Prize
$1,000 plus publication for a surrealist poem. Judge: Michael Hettich.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes
Two prizes of $1,500 each plus publication for poetry collections. Judge: Paisley Rekdal.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Carnegie Mellon Press - Open Reading Call
Carnegie Mellon Press is accepting submissions for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction manuscripts.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

2027 SoloDuo Dance Festival
Call for choreographers
Deadline: September 15, 2026

Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry
Sundog Theatre in New York City is seeking one-act plays for “Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry,” new and original one-act plays about the Staten Island ferry.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Ambroggio Prize
The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

Ex Ophidia Press Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Contest
$2,000, publication, and 10 author copies for a poetry collection. Judge: Leslie Adrienne Miller.
Deadline: September 16, 2026

«(NEW)» Make News, Make Noise
Make News, Make Noise is MiFILM’s premier short film showcase. Season 3, Fight or Flight, amplifies high-tension, boundary-pushing genre cinema from Black, BIPOC, and Disabled writer-directors redefining the space.
Deadline: September 18, 2026

«(NEW)» Solas Awards (Travelers’ Tales)
Annual prize for a travel essay with web publication. Judged by Scott Dominic Carpenter.
Deadline: September 21, 2026

Lightscatter Press Poetry Prize
Annual prize for a poetry collection or hybrid work by an emerging writer; multimodal publication and 30 author copies.
Deadline: September 21, 2026

«(NEW)» Mslexia Novel Competition
Open to unpublished fiction novels of at least 50,000 words in any genre for adult and/or young adult readers.
Deadline: September 21, 2026

«(NEW)» Bridport Novel Award
Open to unpublished fiction novels of at least 50,000 words in any genre for adult and/or young adult readers.
Deadline: September 21, 2026

«(NEW)» Meganne George Women Work Short Play Festival
New Perspectives Theatre Company is accepting submissions from playwrights and directors for the Meganne George Women Work Short Play Festival, celebrating work by and about women.
Deadline: September 25, 2026

«(NEW)» Acre Books
Open call for full-length poetry manuscripts.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

Joyland Publishing
Open call for novellas
September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Harbour Editions - Chapbook Open Reading Period
Harbour Editions is accepting chapbook manuscripts during its open reading period.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» AAP Magazine Open Call: STREET
Street-themed photography issue welcoming all approaches and styles (B&W, color, monochrome); submit a cohesive body of work or portfolio.
Deadline: September 29, 2026

«(NEW)» Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry
Annual prize for a single poem evoking the U.S. South; reading at the Oxford Conference for the Book.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction
Annual prize for a novel with publication by Dzanc Books. Entry fee: $25.
Deadline: September 30, 2026

Sixth Finch Fall Issue Submissions
Sixth Finch is accepting submissions for its fall issue through October 6, 2026.
Deadline: October 6, 2026

«(NEW)» Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning Call for Performing Artists
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning seeks women-identifying artists specializing in spoken word, poetry, storytelling, dance, and music to perform in Strength Courage & Wisdom, our annual event celebrating Women’s History Month 2027. Stipend: $250.
Deadline: October 8, 2026

NAVIGATIONS Journal
NAVIGATIONS journal is accepting rolling submissions for Issue Two. The journal was born of letter-poems between pals and poets and is interested in exclamatory experiments, traveling broadcasts, and multi-authored work. (Literary Arts)
Deadline: Rolling

Unbordered Magazine
A new magazine by and for the American emigrant. All genres.
Deadline: Rolling

«(NEW)» Graywolf Books
Development Coordinator
Minneapolis, MN
Deadline: September 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Fine Arts Work Center
Fellowship Director
Provincetown, MA
Deadline: September 7, 2026

«(NEW)» California Native Plant Society
Communications Coordinator
Sacramento, CA

«(NEW)» New Hampshire Public Radio
Managing Editor, Outside/In
Managing Editor, Civics 101
New Hampshire
Deadline: September 7, 2026

«(NEW)» Cave Canem
Director of Programs
NYC

«(NEW)» Center for an Urban Future
Managing Editor
NYC

«(NEW)» Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
Programs Assistant
Portland, OR / Mostly Remote

«(NEW)» Portland Youth Philharmonic
Office Administrator
Portland, OR

«(NEW)» Field Studies
Creative Production Manager
NYC

«(NEW)» Gochman Family Collection
Program & Gallery Manager
Katonah, NY

«(NEW)» Black Farmer Fund
Communications Associate
NYC

«(NEW)» New Yorkers for Parks
Daffodil Distribution Coordinator (Seasonal, PT)
NYC

«(NEW)» PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance
Sr. Producer
Chatham, NY

«(NEW)» Paula Barr Foundation
Writer and Studio Assistant
NYC

«(NEW)» Brooklyn Arts Council
Teaching Artists (Temp, PT)
Brooklyn, NY

«(NEW)» Historic England
Architectural Investigator
London, UK

«(NEW)» Access Now
Grant Writer
New York, NY; Berlin; Brussels; San José, Costa Rica

«(NEW)» Lux Magazine
Editorial Designer
Remote

«(NEW)» Cornell Lab of Ornithology — Center for Conservation Media
Managing Science Editor
Ithaca, NY

«(NEW)» New York Focus
News Editor
NYC

«(NEW)» The Apollo Theater
Website Manager
NYC

«(NEW)» Totei
Editorial Assistant
NYC

«(NEW)» Prof G Media (podcast)
Social Media Producer (PT)
Remote

«(NEW)» Verdant
Maintenance Gardener
Brooklyn, NY

«(NEW)» Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Website Content Strategist
NYC

«(NEW)» BRIC
Associate Director, Operations
Brooklyn, NY

«(NEW)» American Folklife Center
Folklife Specialist
Washington, DC

«(NEW)» Partners Coffee
Graphic Designer
Brooklyn, NY

«(NEW)» Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality
Director of Editorial Strategy
Washington, DC

«(NEW)» Static Media
Freelance Writer
Remote

«(NEW)» City of San José Office of Cultural Affairs
Sr. Arts Program Coordinator
San José, CA

«(NEW)» MIT Press
Acquisitions Editor
Cambridge, MA

«(NEW)» Joshua Tree Foundation for Arts & Ecology
Administrative Operations Manager
Joshua Tree, CA

«(NEW)» Harvard University Press
Assistant Editor
Cambridge, MA

«(NEW)» MS NOW (MSNBC)
Coordinating Producer

«(NEW)» NYU Ethics and Journalism Initiative
Editorial & Operations Specialist
NYC

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It’s mid-August at The Whole Utopianotes Catalog! Everyone into the pool of grants, fellowships, fully-funded writer & artist residencies, submission calls, open reading periods, jobs, gigs, water wings, donut floaties, foam noodles & more. There is something here for you. There is more than enough for everyone.

For free subscribers, you get the first 25 Fellowships, Grants & Prizes for every issue + bi-weekly spotlights on special opportunities like 5 Unrestricted Grants This Month or 5 Residencies You’ve Probably Never Heard Of. The rest is for paid subscribers only: Artist and Writer Residencies, Calls for Submission & Open Reading Periods, Jobs & more. Sign up and don’t ever miss an opportunity. Paid subscribers get:

• Two (2) massive opportunity lists each month (early- and mid-month)

• Access to exclusive chats & tutorials

• One 30-minute complimentary consultation (for annual subscriptions)

«(NEW)» Midwest Culture Bearers Award
Honors and amplifies the work of 18 mid-career and established Midwestern cultural practitioners each year with substantial unrestricted grants.
Deadline: August 18, 2026

James Renwick Alliance for Craft – Chrysalis Award
An emerging artist in ceramics will receive a $5,000 unrestricted award, a one-year JRACraft membership, and the opportunity to present their work at a JRACraft event.
Deadline: August 23, 2026

«(NEW)» Poetry & Polar Science
PRAx, Spring Creek Project and Terrain.org invite poets to create original poems in response to a selection of polar science papers from Oregon State University researchers. We welcome work that is curious, imaginative, surprising and attentive. Poems may engage with the science directly or indirectly. They may be personal, lyrical, narrative, experimental, contemplative or playful. Selected poems will be published in a series in Terrain.org and poets will receive $100 from Spring Creek Project for each selected piece. Selected poets may also be invited to participate in a public reading at PRAx. PRAx will provide lodging on the night of the event, a travel stipend of up to $1,000, and dinner with polar researchers following the event.
Deadline: August 26, 2026

Bronx Cultural Visions Fund
The Bronx Cultural Visions Fund seeks to support the development of new ideas and the production of new work in the performing arts.
Deadline: August 27, 2026

«(NEW)» AMPLIFY Mural Competition - Spruill Gallery
The Spruill Gallery in Dunwoody, Georgia is accepting nationwide submissions for its annual AMPLIFY mural competition for a $10,000 prize.
Deadline: August 28, 2026

CALI Futures Grant
CALI Futures supports artists and cultural workers across California who are contributing to alternative efforts focused on income, ownership, and care outside of conventional nonprofit and for-profit arts systems.
Deadline: August 28, 2026

«(NEW)» F.Y. Eye Nonprofit Co-Lab
5-month creative accelerator co-creating public service campaigns across NYC. Supports nonprofits alongside social impact artists and designers.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Only Poems Bob Hicok Poetry Fellowship
$1,000, publication, $1,000 in workshop credits, one-on-one with Bob Hicok, blog invitation, and lifetime membership.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize
$10,000 prize and publication for a short story collection or novel.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» UpTide
Applicants must serve full-time as the Executive Director, President, or CEO of a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in good standing dedicated to addressing the growing disconnection and disaffiliation at the root of many societal challenges. We welcome a broad range of organizations. $5,000 grant + a chance for $25,000.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Helpmann Academy Fellowships
Helpmann Academy offers fellowships of $7,500 across multiple creative disciplines to support early-career artists.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Pratt Center Community Planning & Research Accelerator
Funding and technical assistance for NYC organizations advancing social justice. Up to 4 organizations receive $15,000 grants.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship
The Society of Architectural Historians offers the H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship for photo projects of any genre.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Woodward/Newman Award
The Woodward/Newman Award is presented to the best unpublished play of the year with a cash prize of $3,000 and a full production as part of Constellation Stage & Screen’s Mainstage season.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

2026 Liu Shiming Artist Grants
Created to support visual artists in the first decade of their careers, the program provides funding for ongoing or new projects that explore the relationship between traditional, cultural, or historical influences and contemporary artistic practice. Each year, up to five artists will be selected to receive a $5,000 grant.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Purpose Earth Grant
Grants of $2,000 to $10,000 for environmental protection, community, and cultural collaboration projects.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Film & Video Poetry Symposium
International symposium and screening platform for poetry-driven moving-image work combining film, video, and poetry.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Culture Forward — The Svane Family Foundation
A three-year, $5M initiative supporting arts and culture projects that draw audiences to Downtown San Francisco. Open to local and national artists and organizations. Experimentation is welcome.
Deadline: September 1, 2026

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Grant Program
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts offers four types of grants: Curatorial Research Fellowships, Exhibition Support, Multi-year Program Grants, and Project Grants for Small-Scale Organizations.
Deadline: September 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Arts in Community Grant
South Arts grants up to $10,000 for arts organizations to receive support for community engagement projects in Southern communities.
Deadline: September 1, 2026

Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Grants
Grants up to $50,000 for charitable, religious, artistic, educational, or scientific projects.
Deadline: September 1, 2026

Furthermore Grant in Publishing
Furthermore supports publication of nonfiction books that concern the arts, history, and the natural and built environment. (Writing, Nonfiction)
Deadline: September 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Winston Salem Artist Support Grant
Provides direct support to individual artists and small unincorporated groups of collaborating artists for professional and artistic development, skill enhancement, or business operations improvement.
Deadline: September 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Oregon Book Awards
Annual awards for original work published between September 1, 2025 and August 31, 2026 across six categories: Poetry, Fiction, General Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Children’s Literature, and Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature.
Deadline: September 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Jonathan Larson Grant
The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment by the American Theatre Wing in individual musical theatre talent.
Deadline: September 4, 2026

«(NEW)» CTM Radio Lab / In Listening 2027
Open call for experimental sound/audio art works. Two selected works receive EUR 6,000 each.
Deadline: September 6, 2026

«(NEW)» 2027 Erie Canal Artists in Residence
Seeking projects that reflect on the Erie Canal’s past, contemplate its present, and consider its future. All visual mediums welcome. Local and Indigenous artists preferred. Two selected artists will each receive a $10,000 stipend.
Deadline: September 6, 2026

«(NEW)» Jennifer Weiner Fellowship at Blue Stoop
A 3-month fellowship (Feb-May 2027) for woman-identified emerging prose writers in the greater Philadelphia area.
Deadline: September 8, 2026

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A lot of grants require exhaustive detail regarding what the money will become (line items, timelines, deliverables). Some are reimbursement-only, so the artist incurs costs up front. So there’s something countercultural about the unrestricted grant, which requires your vision, merit, and integrity, but no performance of certainity in terms of exactly how things are going to pan out. These grants arrive in the form of a check. They say, in effect, we trust your judgment. That trust shows up more often than you’d think, if you know where to look.

Here are five more from this month’s list.

Midwest Culture Bearers Award — Eighteen mid-career and established Midwestern cultural practitioners receive substantial unrestricted grants each year — a regional prize built on the premise that the Midwest doesn’t need to be a farm system for the coasts to be worth funding.
Deadline: August 18, 2026

Liu Shiming Artist Grants — Up to five artists in the first decade of their careers receive $5,000 each, no project proposal required, just work exploring the relationship between tradition and contemporary practice.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

James Renwick Alliance for Craft – Chrysalis Award — $5,000, unrestricted, for an emerging ceramic artist, plus a year of membership and a chance to present at a JRACraft event.
Deadline: August 23, 2026

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation — Writing Fellowships of approximately $65,000 each are given annually to mid-career poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on the basis of “exceptional creative ability.”
Deadline: September 15, 2026

2026 Foundwork Artist Prize — The top honoree receives a $10,000 grant and studio visits with a jury that includes curators from major international institutions; three shortlisted artists receive $1,000 each. No proposal required.
Deadline: September 25, 2026

There are more like these tucked into the full August list, and the next installment of Extra! Extra! Paid subscribers get the complete twice-monthly roundup.

It’s August at The Whole Utopianotes Catalog! Lay back in a field of grants, fellowships, fully-funded writer & artist residencies, submission calls, open reading periods, jobs, gigs, chirping crickets, monarch butterflies, & watch out for ticks. There is something here for you. There is more than enough for everyone.

Today’s utopianote: Recently I’ve been thinking about the Bronx rebuilding movement, a visionary cooperative effort originating in the 1970s where the people of the Boogie Down reconstructed, by hand, their own neighborhoods which had suffered from civic neglect, redlining, and other kinds of racist policies: grassroots tenant associations grew into block associations grew into mutual aid networks, even with all forms of state power stacked against it. But the movement was so successful, at such a massive scale, over so many decades, it became, for me, the most important lens to re-orient what we’re talking about when we talk about “American utopian history” in Heaven is a Place on Earth. It wasn’t called utopianism, but it produced some of the most hard-won cooperative infrastructure in the country, and it did so in spite of the fact that, according to the laws of capital and conquest, it wasn’t supposed to be able to happen, but did. The series is here and here. Follow along. And otherwise, behold! Listings below.

The first 25 Fellowships, Grants & Prizes are FREE this issue. The rest is for paid subscribers only: Artist and Writer Residencies, Calls for Submission & Open Reading Periods, Jobs & more. Sign up and don’t ever miss an opportunity. Paid subscribers get:

• Two (2) massive opportunity lists each month (early- and mid-month)

• Access to exclusive chats & tutorials

• One 30-minute complimentary consultation (for annual subscriptions)

«(NEW)» Idle Hands Incubation Award
The Idle Hands Incubation Award supports artists working across music, film, digital arts, hybrid, and all performing arts. $10,000 award.
Deadline: August 4, 2026

Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants Cycle 25
This national emergency grant program provides one-time grants of up to $3,000 to professional dancers facing dire financial emergencies.
Deadline: August 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Fondazione Prada Film Fund
Fondazione Prada offers production grants for film projects. Min 15,000€ - Max 80,000€ per film in development; Min 30,000€ - Max 250,000€ per film in production; Min 15,000€ - Max 100,000€ per film in post-production
Deadline: August 6, 2026

Oregon Literary Fellowships
$4,000 fellowships for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, including Women Writers and Writers of Color fellowships.
Deadline: August 7, 2026

Dia Art Foundation Spiritual Pedagogies Fellowship 2026-27
Dia Art Foundation is offering a 9-month fellowship (Oct 2026 - June 2027) exploring the relationship between artistic practice, pedagogy, and spirituality.
Deadline: August 9, 2026

EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Fellowship
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio Immersion Fellowship runs Jan 26 - April 30, 2027 and is open to NYC-based artists from EFA. $2,000 stipend plus workshops.
Deadline: August 9, 2026

«(NEW)» New Dramatists Seven-Year Residency
New Dramatists offers a seven-year residency program for playwrights. Residents receive artistic support, a community of peer playwrights, and resources to develop their work over an extended period.
Deadline: August 10, 2026

Wave Hill AnkhLave Garden Project Fellowship
Wave Hill is accepting applications from NYC-based BIPOC artists working across media for the 9th Annual AnkhLave Garden Project Fellowship.
Deadline: August 10, 2026

«(NEW)» Solidarity Stories Microgrant
The Marigold Effect is offering up to twenty-six Solidarity Stories Microgrants, $1,000 each, to support local businesses, photographers, photojournalists, and filmmakers in DC, MD, and VA.
Deadline: August 12, 2026

SPJ Foundation Grant
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for projects that strengthen journalism and protect the public’s right to know.
Deadline: August 13, 2026

«(NEW)» Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts 2027 Infinite Expansion Grants
Up to $50,000 grants for projects by artists presented by arts nonprofits in LA County.
Deadline: August 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Flux Factory: A New Future Residency Exchange
NYC-based artists and curators to participate in a new residency initiative to strengthen collaboration and build relationships between the US and 9 post-Soviet countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Deadline: August 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Brink Emerging Writer Fellowship
Virtual fellowship for early-career writers. Offers editorial support, guidance, and mentorship to previously unpublished writers in hybrid and cross-genre writing.
Deadline: August 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Head On Photo Awards 2026
Offers an $80,000 prize pool. Open to photographers of every level and judged completely anonymously on merit alone
Deadline: August 16, 2026

Folk Arts Apprenticeship
The Folk Arts Apprenticeship enables qualified individuals to study with traditional mentors of Utah’s ethnic, Native, rural, and occupational communities who demonstrate a commitment to passing on cultural knowledge.
Deadline: August 17, 2026

NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship
Through fiscal sponsorship, NYFA extends its 501(c)(3) nonprofit status to selected projects, allowing them to raise funds and apply for opportunities that require a fiscal sponsor.
Deadline: August 17, 2026

Literary Arts Fund Innovation Project Grant
The Literary Arts Fund, a collaborative initiative of the Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Poetry Foundation, and an anonymous foundation, is opening a new grant opportunity for literary arts organizations.
Deadline: August 17, 2026

«(NEW)» Midwest Culture Bearers Award
Honors and amplifies the work of 18 mid-career and established Midwestern cultural practitioners each year with substantial unrestricted grants.
Deadline: August 18, 2026

James Renwick Alliance for Craft – Chrysalis Award
An emerging artist in ceramics will receive a $5,000 unrestricted award, a one-year JRACraft membership, and the opportunity to present their work at a JRACraft event.
Deadline: August 23, 2026

Bronx Cultural Visions Fund
The Bronx Cultural Visions Fund seeks to support the development of new ideas and the production of new work in the performing arts.
Deadline: August 27, 2026

«(NEW)» CALI Futures Grant
CALI Futures supports artists and cultural workers across California who are contributing to alternative efforts focused on income, ownership, and care outside of conventional nonprofit and for-profit arts systems.
Deadline: August 28, 2026

«(NEW)» Only Poems Bob Hicok Poetry Fellowship
$1,000, publication, $1,000 in workshop credits, one-on-one with Bob Hicok, blog invitation, and lifetime membership.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize
$10,000 and publication for a short story collection or novel.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» UpTide
Applicants must serve full-time as the Executive Director, President, or CEO of a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in good standing dedicated to addressing the growing disconnection and disaffiliation at the root of many societal challenges. We welcome a broad range of organizations. $5,000 grant + a chance for $25,000.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Helpmann Academy Fellowships
Helpmann Academy offers fellowships of $7,500 across multiple creative disciplines to support early-career artists.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Pratt Center Community Planning & Research Accelerator
Funding and technical assistance for NYC organizations advancing social justice. Up to 4 organizations receive $15,000 grants.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship
The Society of Architectural Historians offers the H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship for photo projects of any genre.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Woodward/Newman Award
The Woodward/Newman Award is presented to the best unpublished play of the year with a cash prize of $3,000 and a full production as part of Constellation Stage & Screen’s Mainstage season.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

2026 Liu Shiming Artist Grants
Created to support visual artists in the first decade of their careers, the program provides funding for ongoing or new projects that explore the relationship between traditional, cultural, or historical influences and contemporary artistic practice. Each year, up to five artists will be selected to receive a $5,000 grant.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Purpose Earth Grant
Grants of $2,000 to $10,000 for environmental protection, community, and cultural collaboration projects.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Film & Video Poetry Symposium
International symposium and screening platform for poetry-driven moving-image work combining film, video, and poetry.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Culture Forward — The Svane Family Foundation
A three-year, $5M initiative supporting arts and culture projects that draw audiences to Downtown San Francisco. Open to local and national artists and organizations. Experimentation is welcome.
Deadline: September 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Grant Program
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts offers four types of grants: Curatorial Research Fellowships, Exhibition Support, Multi-year Program Grants, and Project Grants for Small-Scale Organizations.
Deadline: September 1, 2026

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This is the Internships & Academic Fellowships dispatch, a special feature of The Whole Utopianotes Catalog.

Each month, you’ll find listings to arts and writing internships for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postgrad academic fellowships. Follow the links below for further details about the position and application instructions. Recent …

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There is a version of the artist residency that exists mostly in the American imagination, i.e. white clapboard farmhouse, a month of walks in the woods, a bell that rings for dinner, something like that. It is a real thing, and a good thing, but it is not the only shape this can take. There’s live/work farms taking international applications on a rolling basis, urban makers’ spaces with equipment to share, couples who’ve dedicated part of their home to visiting filmmakers, flexible fellowships at steel yards, participating public libraries, and so many others. The utopianote, as ever, is not one thing. It multiplies.

Here are five you have probably never heard of.

Arts&Rec Adrianna Newell Fellowship
A live/work studio residency in Stamford, NY (Western Catskills) for October 2026 with possible extension into November for a queer lens-based artist working in media forms of photography and moving images on projects that engage queer POVs and relationships to land, rurality, and regional spaces. Fellows have use of a 1000sf studio and attached apartment, stipend for materials and a per diem (totaling $1500) and are introduced to the local artists and creative community.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

The Residency at Casa Gracia
Three visual artists are invited for stays of up to three months, and two writers for stays of up to six months, with access to a beautiful, newly-renovated studio with soaring ceilings and tons of natural light. Writers enjoy a private floor of the residence that includes their bedroom and study.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

CASA PIP Residency for Filmmakers
A residency in Portugal, founded and run by filmmakers. Filmmakers, screenwriters, or authors interested in adapting literature into film, emerging or established, please apply. No professional film experience necessary.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

Lisa Brown & Daniel Handler Writer Residency 2026-27
A writer residency brought to you by McSweeney’s and the San Francisco Public Library, named for Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler.
Deadline: August 10, 2026

Steel Yard Micro-Residencies
The Providence, RI-based program can assist you in growing and strengthening your creative industrial art practice with flexible time commitments of one to three months. One ceramics and one metals micro-resident are hosted at a time.
Deadline: Rolling (Apply 6 - 12 months in advance)

The full July list has two dozen more listings like these — residencies that are free of charge, some providing stipends, room, board, travel, studio space or all of the above. Paid subscribers get the whole roundup twice a month, which includes not just artist and writer residencies, but grants, fellowships, open calls for submission, jobs and more. Everyone else gets the top of the iceberg.

It’s mid-July at The Whole Utopianotes Catalog! Giddyup with grants, fellowships, fully-funded writer & artist residencies, submission calls, open reading periods, jobs, gigs, happy horsies, loving llamas, bleating ewes & more. There is something here for you. There is more than enough for everyone.

Today’s utopianote: I’ve been out in the meadow this month making videos about the Shakers, and their founder Ann Lee — a visionary textile worker of the English working poor who went on to found one of the longest-lasting communal experiments in American history. In 1780, the earliest Shakers of upstate New York experienced a membership spike when what we now know was smoke from Quebec wildfires darkened the sky and people thought the world was ending. Today, the air is hazy with the same fumes. What does it mean to build a community premised on egalitarianism, pacifism, no private property and a practice of collective ecstatic devotion to the divine, in response to the end-times? These are the questions I find myself asking, and attempting to answer, on camera with varying degrees of coherence. Follow along! But first, your listings.

The first 25 Fellowships, Grants & Prizes are FREE this issue. The rest is for paid subscribers only: Artist and Writer Residencies, Calls for Submission & Open Reading Periods, Jobs & more. Sign up and don’t ever miss an opportunity. Paid subscribers get:

• Two (2) massive opportunity lists each month (early- and mid-month)

• Access to exclusive chats & tutorials

• One 30-minute complimentary consultation (for annual subscriptions)

Leijia Hanrahan Scholarship for Communist Women Smokers
The Leijia Hanrahan Scholarship for Communist Women Smokers provides students with the opportunity to attend six months of courses for free at Poetry Field School.
Deadline: July 17, 2026

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 9th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. (Fine Arts)
Deadline: July 17, 2026

On the Brinck Prize
Places Journal awards the Brinck Prize for innovative writing on the built environment, landscape, and public space. $7,500 honorarium to research and write a major work of public scholarship for publication in Places Journal.
Deadline: July 17, 2026

«(NEW)» Town Hall Scholar in Residence 2026
Town Hall Seattle selects local artists, performers, journalists, researchers, and specialists for a 4-month paid residency (August-December 2026).
Deadline: July 19, 2026

VH Award
The VH Award supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia. Audiovisual screen-based artworks including video art, motion graphics, animation, games, films, or newly explored areas. Proposed works must be suitable for a single-channel video presentation. (Media Arts, Digital Art, Film)
Deadline: July 21, 2026

«(NEW)» Architectural League 2026 Independent Projects Grants
Partnership with NYSCA providing $10,000 grants for New York State-based individuals and teams for design exploration and research.
Deadline: July 22, 2026

«(NEW)» TMT Institute for Theater Makers
The Target Margin Theater Institute is a cohort of artists who seek to radically disrupt and re-examine their existing practice without any expected result. Each Fellow brings their own questions and ideas, which TMT supports with space,
material resources and a $2,000 stipend.
Deadline: July 22, 2026

Gerbode Foundation - Special Awards in the Arts
The Gerbode Foundation’s Special Awards in the Arts program advances new work across dance, theater, and music composition with unrestricted cash grants.
Deadline: July 30, 2026

University of Pittsburgh Press Drue Heinz Literature Prize
$25,000 prize plus publication for a short fiction collection. Must have published a prior book or 3+ stories/novellas.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab Fall 2026 Playground Series
They anticipate accepting four or five new members to the Writer’s Lab who will participate in generative sessions constituted of playwrights, directors, and actors. Playwrights can use each session to explore eight to 10 pages of writing on its feet, to get a sense of the embodied shape of the writing.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

AXS Film Fund
This initiative supports documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators from diverse backgrounds who navigate the challenges of living with a disability. We welcome applications from collaborative teams. 3-5 creators receive grants of up to $10,000 each. Funding is for works at any stage of production.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

MUUS Collection Research Fellowship
Created in 2026, the MUUS Collection Research Fellowship comprises a $20,000 grant awarded to a curator or academic.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

Center For Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowship
The Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writer Fellowship offers grants, editorial mentorship, and other opportunities to early-career New York City-based practitioners who are at a critical moment in their development as fiction writers.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

The Grateful American Book Prize
Prize for outstanding historical fiction, non-fiction, and biographies for readers ages 11-15. The Prize seeks to promote engagement with American history among young readers. The winner will receive a $13,000 award, a lifetime membership to The New York Historical, and a medallion designed by artist Clarice Smith.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Accent Sisters Work-Study Fellowship
Accent Sisters offers a part-time work-study fellowship (3 days/week, Aug 20 - Dec 20) providing hands-on experience in a bookstore and hybrid event space with exhibitions, book launches, film screenings, and public programming.
Deadline: August 1, 2026

The Betty Bowen Award
Administered by the Seattle Art Museum, the annual Betty Bowen Award honors a Northwest artist for their original, exceptional, and compelling work. The winner is awarded an unrestricted cash prize of $20,000, and a selection of their works is shown at the Seattle Art Museum.
Deadline: August 1, 2026

l l l Artist Fund
The l l l Artist Fund awards a $1,000 to a recent MFA graduate in Visual Art.
Deadline: August 1, 2026

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. (Writing)
Granum Foundation Translation Prize
Supports the completion of a work translated into English by a U.S.-based writer.
Deadline: August 1, 2026

Hidden Compass Pathfinder Prize
An $18,000 travel and production grant to fund an expedition and short documentary film project, along with articles for Hidden Compass magazine. (Film)
Deadline: August 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Puppet Festival NYC 2026-28 Artist Incubator
The Incubator Program will support an artist of any level in the creation and presentation of a new work while creating new and exciting opportunities for audience engagement. Our goal is to support the creation of a full-length show (30-50 minutes), and to offer guidance on marketing, touring, and production. The artist will receive a $1,000 development fee for the first year of development.
Deadline: August 2, 2026

«(NEW)» Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant
Provides up to $5,000 to fund art for social change projects by women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia.
Deadline: August 3, 2026

«(NEW)» SC Indie Film Grants
Production grants for narrative short film projects by South Carolina filmmakers, ranging from $25,000 to $45,000 to cover full production including post-production.
Deadline: August 3, 2026

BigCi Environmental Awards 2026
Environmental art awards open to visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, filmmaking, and curating.
Deadline: August 2, 2026

«(NEW)» The Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship
Over the course of nine months, Fellows will be given the opportunity to work one-on-one with their Mentor to develop their craft; explore publication and performance opportunities; and reflect on the professional and community-based dimensions of a writing life. In addition to working with their Mentors, Fellows will: have access to all Poetry Project events (free workshops, free readings, free publications), receive an award of $3,000, and more.
Deadline: August 3, 2026

«(NEW)» Café Royal Cultural Foundation Visual Grant
Café Royal Cultural Foundation will award an exhibition/project grant to New York City artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs.
Deadline: August 3, 2026

«(NEW)» Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant
Provides up to $5,000 to fund art for social change projects by women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia.
Deadline: August 3, 2026

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The American indie and small press landscape is vast, various, and looking for new voices. The map is constantly evolving. New publishers emerge every day. Indies operate on a different logic than the Big 5, including that many of them accept unagented submissions, through contests or open reading periods. There are dozens currently seeking full-length work across all genres. Here’s five that are reading right now:

Wendy’s Subway - 2026 Book Prize
Wendy’s Subway is accepting full-length manuscripts for the 2026 Book Prize. Selected manuscripts are published as part of the Passage Series, which features emerging writers and artists working in innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre forms.
Deadline: July 24, 2026

University of Pittsburgh Press - Drue Heinz Literature Prize
$25,000 prize plus publication for a short fiction collection. Must have published a prior book or 3+ stories/novellas.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

YesYes Books - Fiction Reading Period
Seeking short story collections (150-250 pages) and novellas (60-120 page). Collaborative manuscripts are eligible for submission. 40 author copies, $1000 advance toward royalties, 15%-25% royalty package and $500 toward tour expenses
Deadline: August 1, 2026

Betty - Open Reading Period for Prose Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be full-length books of prose (novels, memoirs, narrative nonfiction, collections of stories or essays, hybrid prose) in English by self-identified women, including trans women, nonbinary and intersex authors, and authors whose gender identity is fluid or nonconforming.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Sundress Publications - Poetry Manuscript Submissions
Open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts of forty-eight to eighty (48-80) single-spaced pages. We especially welcome authors from marginalized and underrepresented communities. Selected manuscripts will be offered a standard publication contract, which includes 25 copies of the published book.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Check out more in the July 2026 Opportunities issue, along with lit journals reading for shorter work, chapbook open calls, and the fellowships and residencies that could support the development of a book project. Paid subscribers get all of it, twice a month.

It’s July at The Whole Utopianotes Catalog! Splash around in this baptismal font of grants, fellowships, fully-funded writer & artist residencies, submission calls, open reading periods, jobs, gigs, high angels, illicit communion, drunk confessors & more. There is something here for you. There is more than enough for everyone.

If a utopianote is “an ongoing, participatory record of things that, according to the laws of capital and conquest, shouldn’t have been able to happen or exist, but did anyway” — what is your utopianote? Here is my recent attempt at one possible answer to that question, though there are many more answers yet. Follow along, join the conversation and add your own.

The first 25 Fellowships, Grants & Prizes are FREE this issue. The rest is for paid subscribers only: Artists and Writer Residencies, Calls for Submission & Open Reading Periods, Jobs & more. Sign up and don’t ever miss an opportunity. Paid subscribers get:

• Two (2) massive opportunity lists each month (early- and mid-month)

• Access to exclusive chats & tutorials

• One 30-minute complimentary consultation (for annual subscriptions)

Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE for Artists Books
The Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE awards $5,000 to publish an artist book on the topic of book banning/burning in an edition of at least 100 copies. (Literary Arts)
Deadline: July 4, 2026

Sight/Geist Film & Performance Open Call
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation offers stipends of $300-$750 for NYC-based film and performance artists.
Deadline: July 5, 2026

«(NEW)» 2026-2027 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
The 2026-2027 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, an international talent development program that supports non-professional screenwriters. Nicholl fellows receive direct fellowship support, ongoing mentoring from Academy members, and networking opportunities from the Academy, as well as participate in pitch workshops, media training sessions, meet-and-greets and more.
Deadline: July 6, 2026

«(NEW)» FSG Writers Fellowship
The FSG Writers Fellowship is an annual program designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing, including $15,000 in funding, editorial guidance, and support from the FSG editorial team.
Deadline: July 6, 2026

2027 NYSCA Support for Artists
New York State artists may apply for funding, via a sponsoring organization, to create or develop new work. Applications are accepted in the following artistic areas: Choreographer Commissions, Composer Compositions, Film, Media and New Technology, Folk and Traditional Arts, Interdisciplinary, Literature, Theater Commissions and Visual Arts. Each award will be $10,000.
Deadline: July 8, 2026

«(NEW)» CIRCLE Fiction Orbit – 3rd Edition
An intensive one-week retreat dedicated to up to 6 carefully selected fiction feature film projects developed by teams of women and gender-expansive filmmakers working on their second to fourth feature.
Deadline: July 10, 2026

Oregon Film - Tell Your Story Grant
The Creative Opportunity Program is offering two $15,000 grants to Oregon-based creators. The Grant is designed to support a non-project specific virtual residency, allowing filmmakers to develop, explore, and/or shoot the stories they want to tell, in any format they choose. All filmmakers are welcome to apply, especially those from historically underserved communities.
Deadline: July 10, 2026

WeWomen Play Festival
Accepting submissions for the WeWomen Play Festival, showcasing works by women and non-binary playwrights.
Deadline: July 10, 2026

«(NEW)» Phil Killian Directing Fellowship
A six-month professional development fellowship for mid-career to established theatre directors at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Deadline: July 12, 2026

«(NEW)» ARTWorks Fellowship: 2026–2027
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) invites New York City-based visual artists to apply for its Artist Fellowship Training Seminar Series (ARTWorks), a six-month Fellowship that focuses on career sustainability and amplifies the work of em...
Deadline: July 13, 2026

A4 Arts Fund
This fund provides unrestricted general operating support to AAPI arts and cultural organizations with annual operating budgets under $500,000.
Deadline: July 13, 2026

«(NEW)» Epson International Pano Awards
Photography panorama competition with a $50,000 total prize pool.
Deadline: July 13, 2026

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants Cycle 37
This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need, creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.
Deadline: July 14, 2026

«(NEW)» Artist Grant Awards
Artist Grant awards an unrestricted $1200 USD grant to one visual artist three times each year. Visual artists aged 18+ worldwide. Media accepted: Painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, mixed media, installation, and new/alternative visual art forms.
Deadline: July 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Salt Lick Grant Incubator
The Salt Lick Incubator is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting emerging musicians in building sustainable careers. We offer project grants ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 to artists to support projects such as producing a song or album, creating a music video, developing social media assets, pressing vinyl, touring, or enhancing branding and marketing strategies.
Deadline: July 15, 2026

The Civilians 2027 R&D Group
The Civilians’ R&D Group brings together theater artists from various disciplines (writers, directors, composers, performers) interested in investigative theater. (Theater)
Deadline: July 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Leijia Hanrahan Scholarship for Communist Women Smokers
The Leijia Hanrahan Scholarship for Communist Women Smokers provides students with the opportunity to attend six months of courses at Poetry Field School free of cost.
Deadline: July 17, 2026

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 9th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. (Fine Arts)
Deadline: July 17, 2026

On the Brinck Prize
Places Journal awards the Brinck Prize for innovative writing on the built environment, landscape, and public space. $7,500 honorarium to research and write a major work of public scholarship for publication in Places Journal, and present a related public lecture at the SA+P at University of New Mexico.
Deadline: July 17, 2026

«(NEW)» Town Hall Scholar in Residence 2026
Town Hall Seattle selects local artists, performers, journalists, researchers, and specialists for a 4-month paid residency (August-December 2026).
Deadline: July 19, 2026

VH Award
The VH Award supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia. (Media Arts, Digital Art, Film)
Deadline: July 21, 2026

«(NEW)» Gerbode Foundation - Special Awards in the Arts
The Gerbode Foundation’s Special Awards in the Arts program advances new work across dance, theater, and music composition with unrestricted cash grants.
Deadline: July 30, 2026

«(NEW)» University of Pittsburgh Press Drue Heinz Literature Prize
$25,000 prize plus publication for a short fiction collection. Must have published a prior book or 3+ stories/novellas.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab Fall 2026 Playground Series
Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab is accepting applications for new members to participate in their fall 2026 Playground Series. They anticipate accepting four or five new members to the Writer’s Lab who will participate in generative sessions constituted of playwrights, directors, and actors. Playwrights can use each session to explore eight to 10 pages of writing on its feet, to get a sense of the embodied shape of the writing.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

AXS Film Fund
This initiative supports documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators from diverse backgrounds who navigate the challenges of living with a disability. While we encourage submissions from projects where a disabled creator holds a key leadership role, we welcome applications from all collaborative teams. 3-5 creators receive grants of up to $10,000 each. Funding is for works at any stage of production.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

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It’s mid-June at The Whole Utopianotes Catalog! Enter this never-never land of grants, fellowships, fully-funded writer & artist residencies, submissions calls, open reading periods, jobs, fairy godmothers, sexy sirens, talking cats & more. There is something here for you. There is more than enough for everyone.

This week I was thinking about the meaning of utopianotes, a term I coined in my second book — utopianotes (n.): an ongoing, participatory record of things that, according to the laws of capital and conquest, shouldn’t have been able to happen or exist, but did anyway, if only for a moment. The catalog exists in the same spirit — here is more than you ever thought was possible, a voluminous, imperfect, ephemeral, and unexpected discount bin of real possibilities and pathways, with no promises but for the fact that, as the great Beth Pickens says, your art will save your life.

ALL Fellowships, Grants & Prizes are FREE this issue. The rest is for paid subscribers only: Artists and Writer Residencies, Calls for Submission & Open Reading Periods, Jobs & more. Sign up and don’t ever miss an opportunity. Paid subscribers get:

• Two (2) massive opportunity lists each month (early- and mid-month)

• Access to exclusive chats & tutorials

• One 30-minute complimentary consultation (for annual subscriptions

«(NEW)» Film at Lincoln Center Academy Programs
The FLC Artists Academy offers up to 10 emerging filmmakers and craftspeople a three-day workshop intensive: A three-day workshop intensive taking place in-person during NYFF64; Panel discussions and case studies with filmmakers, craftspeople, and industry leaders; Peer-to-peer roundtable discussions with FLC Artists Academy alumni; Support in both career development and expanding the participants’ creative network; A festival badge to attend NYFF64 press and industry screenings; Invitations to select industry events during the festival
Deadline: June 18, 2026

«(NEW)» Walker Youngbird Foundation Emerging Native Arts Grant
The Walker Youngbird Foundation offers $15,000, mentorship, and a showcase for early-career Native artists.
Deadline: June 18, 2026

Spring 2026 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo
Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer.
Deadline: June 18, 2026

«(NEW)» Art Fluent Evolution Grant
Art Fluent offers a $1,000 unrestricted grant for an individual fine artist.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

Griffin Trust Poetry Prize & Canadian First Book Prize
The Griffin Trust Poetry Prize gives $130,000 CAD for a poetry collection in English. International call. Finalists each receive $10,000 CAD. The Canadian First Book Prize offers $10,000 CAD for a debut poetry collection by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, plus a 6-week Civitella Ranieri fellowship.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

AFAC Music Grant
AFAC’s Music grant supports music production, performances, collaborations, album recordings, music-related podcasts, and festivals. The Music grant program provides annual grants of up to USD 25,000 for individuals and teams, and up to USD 35,000 for collectives and institutions.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

Cooper Prize
The prize is open internationally, to published or unpublished playwrights. The winning playwright will receive a $20,000 AUD prize and their work will be considered for a full commission for production. All finalists receive a professionally directed public reading of their submitted scene with professional actors.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

«(NEW)» The Vanguard Award/Accelerator for Innovative Arts Leaders
A $100,000 awards for up to 10 leaders exploring ways to strengthen arts institutions, and a year-long accelerator (in partnership with MIT).
Deadline: June 22, 2026

Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects
Unrestricted project-based grants of $2,500 awarded to 65 artists working in all disciplines across Washington State, including Literary Arts such as Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Zines. (Multidisciplinary)
Deadline: June 22, 2026

«(NEW)» Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Award
The awardee will present an in-person lecture at The Korea Society before a broad audience. The lecture will be live-streamed and recorded. The awardee will be provided with a $2,500 honorarium, roundtrip travel to NYC, and lodging.
Deadline: June 22, 2026

«(NEW)» All About Photo: Win a Solo Exhibition
Featured solo exhibition — presented for an entire month across All About Photo’s Home Page, Competition Gallery, and Exhibition Director; Exclusive interview — share your story and insights with a global audience; Permanent online presence — your exhibition remains accessible indefinitely with a dedicated portfolio page featuring 20 images; Social media exposure — promotion via Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter; Dedicated newsletter announcement & more.
Deadline: June 23, 2026

«(NEW)» 2027 BlueCat Screenplay Competition (Features and Shorts)
Since 1998, the BlueCat Screenplay Competition has been dedicated to discovering and developing writers.
Deadline: June 23, 2026

Ian Potter Emerging Artist Grants
The Emerging Artist Grants program is an international open call for grants of up to $15,000 to assist talented emerging and early-career artists in taking up professional development opportunities. (All Disciplines)
Deadline: June 23, 2026

«(NEW)» The Prince Fellowship
The goal of the Prince Fellowship is to support the development of gifted emerging creative theatrical producers. The Fellowship is committed to sustaining the finest traditions of producing by exposing new talent to the producing process in a manner that supports creative involvement. Although the environment in which theatre is produced continues to change, many of the underlying challenges and principles remain and must be understood and adapted if the art form is to thrive. (Theater)
Deadline: June 25, 2026

NEH - Media Projects
Supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities,
Deadline: June 25, 2026

«(NEW)» CRECE Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards
This fashion competition is dedicated to celebrating designers, artists, and neighbors creating outfits that show how care for people, communities, and the planet can be gorgeous, inventive, and stylish. Fashion designers at any level—self-taught, emerging, or established — can submit one wearable outfit demo’ing sustainability.
Deadline: June 26, 2026

«(NEW)» Professional Alliance for Curators in Community (PACC) Fellowship
The Professional Alliance for Curators in Community (PACC) strengthens the professional trajectory of early-career curators who face barriers to advancement. Through a cohort-based model of ten Fellows combining structured learning and intentional community building, the 2026–27 PACC Program program consists of eight to ten full days of in-person professional development, in addition to four to five virtual half-day sessions as detailed below (ten to twelve days total).
Deadline: June 26, 2026

«(NEW)» Van Alen Open Access
Van Alen invites emerging designers and creatives of all disciplines to delve into the currently accessible portions of our archive and consider its material through the lens of open and fair access. Five projects will be selected for an exhibition. Each project will receive an all-inclusive $3,000 honorarium.
Deadline: June 28, 2026

Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship
The program is designed for researchers, artists, and practitioners whose work advances thoughtful, practical, and imaginative approaches to how technology is designed, governed, and experienced in public life, and provides a one-year unrestricted award of up to $60,000 to support research, creative practice, or community-engaged work.
Deadline: June 28, 2026

«(NEW)» 2025-2027 Zhao-Chen Family AAPI Voices Fund at Kartemquin Films
Funding will be competitive and project applicants must: Highlight stories centering Asians/Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders; Be working on a high-impact story that reflects the varied experiences of AAPI communities based in the US; Be working on a short documentary project (no features or series will be accepted at this time); and Be prepared to enter into a co-production agreement with KTQ. Projects by filmmakers who have meaningful connections to the communities on which their project focuses; and Stories that are struggling to secure funding or may not be clearly “commercially viable”
Deadline: June 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Arena Support for Independent Research in AI Evaluation
Up to $50,000 per project for tenure-track faculty conducting independent research in AI evaluation.

«(NEW)» imprint: a QTBIPOC dance writing fellowship
imprint is an annual dance writing fellowship program designed for US-based QTBIPOC dance writers and will support three emerging dance writers through writing and publishing mentorship and professional development. Participating writers will be compensated $500 for 40 hours of work/study over the course of a year. During their fellowship, participating writers will attend 12 monthly cohort meetings, which will include readings, discussions, co-writing sessions, writing feedback sessions, and guest speakers. Fellows will also attend at least five performances and receive mentorship to write reviews/reflections on each performance attended. Deadline: June 30, 2026

The Roy W. Dean Awards
Multiple grants for independent films that make a unique contribution to society, offering a $3,500 first place award. (Film)
Deadline: June 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Young Climate Prize
The Young Climate Prize is a mentorship and award initiative that supports global leaders under the age of 25 who are living and working on the front lines of the climate crisis. Mentorship, training, trip to NYC.
Deadline: June 30, 2026

Women Photograph + Leica Grant
Three $10,000 grants will be awarded to support photography projects — either new or in-progress — from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity.
Deadline: June 30, 2026

2025–26 Living Traditions: Folk Art and Beyond Grant
This program celebrates and invests in the cultural practices and creative expressions that connect communities across the Creative West region.
Deadline: June 30, 2026

Sofia Coppola Emerging Filmmaker Prize
The Sofia Coppola Emerging Filmmaker Prize awards $20,000 to support an emerging filmmaker in developing their work. (Film)
Deadline: June 30, 2026

«(NEW)» 2027 Poetry Coalition Fellowships
The Poetry Coalition Fellowships offer a $20,000 stipend plus a health insurance stipend for fellows to develop and lead public poetry programs in their communities.
Deadline: July 1, 2026

«(NEW)» The Story Prize
$20,000 award for a story or novella collection published in the US. Two runners-up receive $5,000 each.
Deadline: July 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Short Fiction Contest
$1,750 prize plus publication in Pree and NY Carib News, BCLF podcast feature, Akashic Books consideration, $100 gift card, and Center for Fiction membership.
Deadline: July 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Amy MacRae Award for Memoir
CAD$1,000 prize for unpublished memoirs of up to 2,000 words. Open to writers worldwide.
Deadline: July 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Innovation in Religion and Spirituality Seed Grants
SSRC seed grants up to $10,000 providing 6-month research support for innovative projects in religion and spirituality.
Deadline: July 1, 2026

«(NEW)» NJ Workforce Accelerator Career Training Program
The NJ Workforce Accelerator, coming Fall 2026 to Summer 2027, is a free career training program for those interested in working in film, TV, and media production.
Deadline: July 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Richard J. Margolis Award
$10,000 cash award plus a one-month residency at Blue Mountain Center for a promising new journalist or essayist working on social justice themes.
Deadline: July 1, 2026

Scriptapalooza Fellowships
Accepting screenplays and pilots for a fellowship that includes an online Robert McKee Story Seminar, a six-month mentorship with a producer, access to over 90 producers, and written feedback on your script. (Film)
Deadline: July 1, 2026

Ellis-Beauregard Foundation – Visual Arts Award
$50,000 award plus exhibition opportunity in Maine. (Visual arts)
Deadline: July 1, 2026

«(NEW)» NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships
Fellowships ranging from $3,000 to $32,000 through an anonymous competitive process for New Jersey artists.
Deadline: July 2, 2026

2026 Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
Grant for Black trans women visual artists, presented by QUEER|ART.
Deadline: July 2, 2026

Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE for Artists Books
The Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE awards $5,000 to publish an artist book on the topic of book banning/burning in an edition of at least 100 copies. (Literary Arts)
Deadline: July 4, 2026

Sight/Geist Film & Performance Open Call
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation offers stipends of $300-$750 for NYC-based film and performance artists.
Deadline: July 5, 2026

«(NEW)» FSG Writers Fellowship
The FSG Writers Fellowship is an annual program designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing, including $15,000 in funding, editorial guidance, and support from the FSG editorial team.
Deadline: July 6, 2026

«(NEW)» 2027 NYSCA Support for Artists
New York State artists may apply for funding, via a sponsoring organization, to create or develop new work. Applications are accepted in the following artistic areas: Choreographer Commissions, Composer Compositions, Film, Media and New Technology, Folk and Traditional Arts, Interdisciplinary, Literature, Theater Commissions and Visual Arts. Each award will be $10,000.
Deadline: July 8, 2026

«(NEW)» CIRCLE Fiction Orbit – 3rd Edition
An intensive one-week retreat dedicated to up to 6 carefully selected fiction feature film projects developed by teams of women and gender-expansive filmmakers working on their second to fourth feature.
Deadline: July 10, 2026

«(NEW)» Oregon Film - Tell Your Story Grant
The Creative Opportunity Program is offering two $15,000 grants to Oregon-based creators. The Grant is designed to support a non-project specific virtual residency, allowing filmmakers to develop, explore, and/or shoot the stories they want to tell, in any format they choose. All filmmakers are welcome to apply, especially those from historically underserved communities.
Deadline: July 10, 2026

«(NEW)» WeWomen Play Festival
Accepting submissions for the WeWomen Play Festival, showcasing works by women and non-binary playwrights.
Deadline: July 10, 2026

«(NEW)» A4 Arts Fund
This fund provides unrestricted general operating support to AAPI arts and cultural organizations with annual operating budgets under $500,000.
Deadline: July 13, 2026

«(NEW)» Epson International Pano Awards
Photography panorama competition with a $50,000 total prize pool.
Deadline: July 13, 2026

«(NEW)» Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants Cycle 37
This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need, creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.
Deadline: July 14, 2026

«(NEW)» Salt Lick Grant Incubator
The Salt Lick Incubator is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting emerging musicians in building sustainable careers. We offer project grants ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 to artists to support projects such as producing a song or album, creating a music video, developing social media assets, pressing vinyl, touring, or enhancing branding and marketing strategies.
Deadline: July 15, 2026

«(NEW)» The Civilians 2027 R&D Group
The Civilians’ R&D Group brings together theater artists from various disciplines (writers, directors, composers, performers) interested in investigative theater. (Theater)
Deadline: July 15, 2026

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 9th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. (Fine Arts)
Deadline: July 17, 2026

On the Brinck Prize
Places Journal awards the Brinck Prize for innovative writing on the built environment, landscape, and public space. $7,500 honorarium to research and write a major work of public scholarship for publication in Places Journal, and present a related public lecture at the SA+P at University of New Mexico.
Deadline: July 17, 2026

«(NEW)» VH Award
The VH Award supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia. (Media Arts, Digital Art, Film)
Deadline: July 21, 2026

«(NEW)» Gerbode Foundation - Special Awards in the Arts
The Gerbode Foundation’s Special Awards in the Arts program advances new work across dance, theater, and music composition with unrestricted cash grants.
Deadline: July 30, 2026

AXS Film Fund
This initiative supports documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators from diverse backgrounds who navigate the challenges of living with a disability. While we encourage submissions from projects where a disabled creator holds a key leadership role, we welcome applications from all collaborative teams. 3-5 creators receive grants of up to $10,000 each. Funding is for works at any stage of production.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

«(NEW)» MUUS Collection Research Fellowship
Created in 2026, the MUUS Collection Research Fellowship comprises a $20,000 grant awarded to a curator or academic.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

Center For Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowship
The Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writer Fellowship offers grants, editorial mentorship, and other opportunities to early-career New York City-based practitioners who are at a critical moment in their development as fiction writers.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

The Grateful American Book Prize
Prize for outstanding historical fiction, non-fiction, and biographies for readers ages 11-15. The Prize seeks to promote engagement with American history among young readers. The winner will receive a $13,000 award, a lifetime membership to The New York Historical, and a medallion designed by artist Clarice Smith.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

«(NEW)» 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. (Writing)
Deadline: August 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Granum Foundation Translation Prize
Supports the completion of a work translated into English by a U.S.-based writer. (Writing)
Deadline: August 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Hidden Compass Pathfinder Prize
An $18,000 travel and production grant to fund an expedition and short documentary film project, along with articles for Hidden Compass magazine. (Film)
Deadline: August 1, 2026

«(NEW)» BBA 360 Award
BBA Gallery invites visual artists and photographers worldwide to apply for BBA 360 2026, an international online exhibition opportunity designed to showcase emerging and established creative talent.
Deadline: August 3, 2026

«(NEW)» Literary Arts Fund Innovation Project Grant
The Literary Arts Fund, a collaborative initiative of the Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Poetry Foundation, and an anonymous foundation, is opening a new grant opportunity for o... (Literary Arts)
Deadline: August 17, 2026

James Renwick Alliance for Craft – Chrysalis Award
An emerging artist in ceramics will receive a $5,000 unrestricted award, a one-year JRACraft membership, and the opportunity to present their work at a JRACraft event.
Deadline: August 23, 2026

2026 Liu Shiming Artist Grants
Created to support visual artists in the first decade of their careers, the program provides funding for ongoing or new projects that explore the relationship between traditional, cultural, or historical influences and contemporary artistic practice. Each year, up to five artists will be selected to receive a $5,000 grant.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Purpose Earth Grant
Grants of $2,000 to $10,000 for environmental protection, community, and cultural collaboration projects.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

Film & Video Poetry Symposium
International symposium and screening platform for poetry-driven moving-image work combining film, video, and poetry.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Grants
Grants up to $50,000 for charitable, religious, artistic, educational, or scientific projects.
Deadline: September 1, 2026

Furthermore Grant in Publishing
Furthermore supports publication of nonfiction books that concern the arts, history, and the natural and built environment. (Writing, Nonfiction)
Deadline: September 1, 2026

«(NEW)» PRISMA Art Prize — Rome
Prisma Art Prize opens its 20th edition, continuing its mission as an international platform dedicated to painting and two-dimensional artistic research.
Deadline: September 10, 2026

«(NEW)» Brave New Visions: Creativity As Rebellion
Brave New Visions: Creativity as Rebellion is PhotoVogue’s Global Open Call inviting photographers and video makers from around the world to submit work that engages with the present through original and compelling visual storytelling.
Deadline: September 11, 2026

«(NEW)» Kluge Fellowships
Library of Congress fellowships providing $5,000 per month for 4-11 months. 12 fellowships awarded annually for scholars across disciplines.
Deadline: September 15, 2026

«(NEW)» The Bennett Prize 5
Women figurative realist painters can enter to win $75,000 and a traveling solo exhibition. (Visual Arts)
Deadline: September 19, 2026

International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF)
Multiple grants programs available for women, nonbinary or trans journalists, with funds available for indigenous journalists, newsroom safety, & more.
Deadline: Rolling

«(NEW)» Reel Change: Fund for Diversity in Film Scoring
Reel Change supports developing composers who are creating music for film through targeted grants and high-impact mentorship. The fund supports projects currently in production where additional funding and/or mentoring would be beneficial to the quality of the score and to the advancement of the composer’s career. Four to six grants averaging $20,000 are awarded each year.
Deadline: Rolling

Institute for Humane Studies – Expense & Event Support Grants
Grants supporting research, travel, collaborations, and academic events within the liberal tradition.
Deadline: Rolling

Economic Hardship Reporting Project – Reporting Grants
Grants for journalism on poverty, labor, and economic precarity in the U.S.
Deadline: Rolling

IndieSpace Grants
Multiple funding programs for historically excluded artists, small companies, and indie venues, open year-round or at varying times.
Deadline: Varies

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Supports visual and performing artists with urgent funding for unexpected opportunities or expenses.
Deadline: Ongoing

CERF+ Emergency Grants
Emergency relief grants for artists in craft or materials-based disciplines who have experienced a career-threatening emergency.
Deadline: Rolling

Sloan Distribution Grant
The Sloan Distribution Grant is a $50,000 grant awarded by Film Independent to a film that is entering its distribution phase.
Deadline: Rolling

Max’s Kansas City Project - Emergency Grants
Max’s Emergency Relief & Resource Fund is a one-time grant of between $500 and $1000 to assist self-employed artists who are New York State Residents and who have a steady work history, but who are experiencing a temporary financial set back.
Deadline: Ongoing

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«(NEW)» BOOOOOOOM 2026 Art & Photo Book Award
Selecting 6 projects to turn into books—each by a different artist, illustrator, or photographer—at zero cost to the individual. On top of that, we will also be choosing 2 additional projects to be turned into smaller perfect bound zines. Print runs will be 100 copies for each selected book and 25 copies for each selected zine.
Deadline: June 5, 2026

«(NEW)» Lower East Side Ecology Center Garden Art Exhibition
LESEC offers a $1,750 stipend for artists to create work in a community garden as a living gallery.
Deadline: June 5, 2026

Alan Andres Picture Book Writer Fellowship
Provides an emerging writer of a picture book for children with financial support and editorial assistance needed to complete one work for children ages 0 to 10. (Writing)
Deadline: June 5, 2026

«(NEW)» BOAPS Summer 2026
BOAPS offers $10,000 CAD grants to visual artists worldwide, providing exhibitions, publication, promotion, and sales opportunities.
Deadline: June 9, 2026

«(NEW)» MoMA Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg Fellowship
The Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg Fellowship in the Archives, Library, and Research Collections (ALRC) Department at The Museum of Modern Art will provide a unique opportunity to learn about modern and contemporary art, important training in the fields of archives, library, and information science; research; and Museum administration. Stipend: $54,000.
Deadline: June 10, 2026

New City Critics Fellowship 2026-2027
New City Critics aims to expand who writes about cities and shapes our public imagination. A partnership between Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York, the fellowship supports the development of critics from underrepresented backgrounds through guest lectures and workshops, research guidance, networking, and the production of new writing. Fellows will be awarded a stipend of $7,500 for participation in the 9-month fellowship.
Deadline: June 11, 2026

Muses & Melanin Fellowship for BIPOC Creative Writers
A fully funded 7-month hybrid cohort-based professional development program for creative writers of color who aspire to become professional authors. (Writing)
Deadline: June 12, 2026

«(NEW)» Kate Medina Fellowship in Literary Narrative Nonfiction
The New York Public Library offers the Kate Medina Fellowship in Literary Narrative Nonfiction, providing a $30,000 stipend to support a writer working on a literary narrative nonfiction project. (Literary Arts, Writing)
Deadline: June 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Field of Future Fellowship - Bard Graduate Center
For the Spring 2027 fellowship, the Fields of the Future fellow will research aspects of Sylvester Manor’s extensive and diverse collection of decorative art objects—ceramics, silver, textiles, and more—that reflect the Manor’s complex place in the wider Atlantic world. The stipend rate is $3,500 per month
Deadline: June 15, 2026

«(NEW)» NEXT! Mentorship Program 2026/28
Pioneers Go East Collective offers a two-year mentorship for emerging interdisciplinary artists in dance/movement/performance/video, with a $3,000 stipend.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

«(NEW)» 2027 PEN America Grants
PEN Grant for Translation of Italian Literature
$5,000 grant for translation of fiction or nonfiction from Italian to English.
Deadline: June 15, 2026
PEN America PEN/Bare Life Review Grants
Two $5,000 grants for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction works-in-progress by immigrant and refugee writers.
Deadline: June 15, 2026
PEN America PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
Ten grants of $4,000 for literary translation projects.
Deadline: June 15, 2026
PEN America PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History
Two $15,000 grants for nonfiction oral history literary projects.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

«(NEW)» ACF Artists Creative Fund 2026 - $10K Prize
This initiative provides funding, visibility, and professional development to artists and creatives living in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Through this fund, 20 project-specific awards of $10,000 each will be invested in a diverse group of artists.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

James Laughlin Award
The winning poet receives a prize of $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. The prize includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

«(NEW)» The Meridian Award
The Meridian Award is an independent international award granting a $1,000 unrestricted cash prize to one contemporary artist working in any medium.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

PEN America U.S. 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.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award
$25,000 The award is given to current or former academic faculty members of any US college who have inspired their former students to “create an organization which has demonstrably conferred a benefit on the community at large.”
Deadline: June 16, 2026

Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award
An $8,000 cash grant to a New York State-based playwright or screenwriter who self-identifies as LGBTQ+, including those who live within the five boroughs of New York City. (Writing)
Deadline: June 16, 2026

«(NEW)» Walker Youngbird Foundation Emerging Native Arts Grant
The Walker Youngbird Foundation offers $15,000, mentorship, and a showcase for early-career Native artists.
Deadline: June 18, 2026

Spring 2026 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo
Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer.
Deadline: June 18, 2026

«(NEW)» Art Fluent Evolution Grant
Art Fluent offers a $1,000 unrestricted grant for an individual fine artist.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

«(NEW)» Griffin Trust Poetry Prize & Canadian First Book Prize
The Griffin Trust Poetry Prize gives $130,000 CAD for a poetry collection in English. International call. Finalists each receive $10,000 CAD. The Canadian First Book Prize offers $10,000 CAD for a debut poetry collection by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, plus a 6-week Civitella Ranieri fellowship.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

«(NEW)» AFAC Music Grant
AFAC’s Music grant supports music production, performances, collaborations, album recordings, music-related podcasts, and festivals. The Music grant program provides annual grants of up to USD 25,000 for individuals and teams, and up to USD 35,000 for collectives and institutions.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

Cooper Prize
The prize is open internationally, to published or unpublished playwrights. The winning playwright will receive a $20,000 AUD prize and their work will be considered for a full commission for production. All finalists receive a professionally directed public reading of their submitted scene with professional actors.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

«(NEW)» The Vanguard Award/Accelerator for Innovative Arts Leaders
A $100,000 awards for up to 10 leaders exploring ways to strengthen arts institutions, and a year-long accelerator (in partnership with MIT).
Deadline: June 22, 2026

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«(NEW)» Geffen Playhouse Writers Room Residency
Six selected playwrights/writing teams will attend in-person meetings at the Geffen as they generate the first draft of a new play or musical. Playwrights receive feedback from their cohort in a forum facilitated by the Geffen’s Literary Manager & Dramaturg. Each playwright will have the opportunity to further develop their completed draft in a culminating reading produced by the Geffen. $6000 stipend.
Deadline: May 22, 2026

«(NEW)» Four Stories Fellowship
The inaugural Four Stories Fellowship is a 10-week paid fellowship for storytellers ages 16–25 to create short films centered on the civic and social issues their communities live with every day.
Deadline: May 24, 2026

Create Council on the Arts Grants
Create Council on the Arts offers $1,000 grants for artists, writers and orgnizations in a variety of disciplines across the Catskill/Hudson Valley region.
Deadline: May 25, 2026

Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Awards
Prestigious award from a consortium of colleges recognizing a first book in each if the following genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Deadline: May 25, 2026

Moonshot Initiative Pilot Accelerator
A competitive virtual accelerator program for TV writers. 6-8 fellows receive three weeks of industry training before having the opportunity to pitch to major studios, production companies, representatives, and producers.
Deadline: May 29, 2026

Light of Day Award - New Theatre Script Submissions
The New Theatre in Dublin seeks full-length scripts from emerging and mid-career playwrights. The playwright will receive free dramaturgical support from TNT to further develop their script as well as free development space in which to write.
Deadline: May 29, 2026

«(NEW)» Restless Books Kellman Prize for Immigrant Literature
$10,000 prize with publication and residency at Millay Arts.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Fence Books 2028 Ottoline Book Prize
Open call for poetry manuscripts by any person who identifies as a woman and/or female, including trans women as well as people of variable gender who were Assigned Female at Birth. $5,000 will be paid upon publication, in fall/winter 2028. The poet is given a two-week residency at the T.S. Eliot House in Gloucester, MA.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Los Angeles Academy of Music Production Scholarships
Four full-tuition scholarships to a one year high-level music academy focused on the development of artists, songwriters, and producers with world class mentors.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowships
Two fellowships available for early-career authors in Prose and Mindich Jewish Fiction, each with a $54,000 stipend.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

Bridge Book Award
Cash prize for a work of fiction and creative nonfiction by a US citizen or permanent resident, that covers the costs of translation into Italian.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Project YZ: $10K AAPI Artist Residency Program
Obie-award winner Yangtze Repertory Theatre, invites applications for Project YZ, the company’s year-long AAPI Artist Residency program. Each resident artist will receive a grant of $10,000, of which $5,000 to be an unrestricted financial award, and $5,000 to be used towards project expenses, including professional development.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

Sonntag Grant for Photography | Photobook Open Call
The Sonntag Grant for Photography, in collaboration with Replika Publishing, invites FLINTA (female, lesbian, inter, non-binary, trans, agender) artists to apply. One artist is selected to work directly with Replika Publishing to produce a new photobook, with 50 copies going to the artist and travel costs to Berlin for a launch event.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

Amoeba Productions - Call for Plays/Scripts
We are currently seeking playwrights, directors, producers, and creative teams to submit work for our Winter 2027 and Spring 2027 production slots. We are looking for shows that have not been produced/staged in NYC yet.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

Buried Creek Collective’s Climate Education for Writers Program
Buried Creek Collective’s free Climate Education for Writers Program teaches participants about Philadelphia’s changing environment through hands-on experiences, meetings with experts, and instruction on waterways, land use, ecology, and infrastructure.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
Fellowships for practitioners across disciplines serious about developing new and meaningful work related to gardens and landscapes. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians, whose work develops new and meaningful work related to gardens and landscapes. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2 - 5 week stay at Oak Spring. (Multidisciplinary)
Deadline: May 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Oak Spring Garden Fellowship for Distinction in Fine Crafts and Design
Fellowship for an early-career craftsperson or designer whose work demonstrates exceptional skill, artistic vision, and meaningful engagement with the natural world. We welcome applicants working in a range of materials-based practices. The selected Fellow will receive a $10,000 grant and a 2–5 week residency at Oak Spring Garden Foundation in northern Virginia.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

Jonathan & Barbara Silver Foundation – Grant for Writing on Sculpture
Grant supporting emerging and established writers and scholars focused on sculpture.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Host Publications Joe W. Bratcher Prize
$8,000 prize with publication and 25 author copies for a poetry collection.
Deadline: June 1, 2026

«(NEW)» American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize
$3,000 prize and an all-expenses-paid writing retreat at a beautiful, remote cabin on idyllic land that neighbors the Halifax Ranch, just outside of Austin in Kyle, Texas.
Deadline: June 1, 2026

The Bard Fiction Prize
The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to a promising emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application. In addition to a $30,000 cash award, the winner receives an appointment as writer in residence at Bard College for one semester.
Deadline: June 1, 2026

Venturous Capital Grant
The goal of our Venturous Capital Grants program is to support writers of bold, experimental, and/or large-scale new plays by giving theaters the ability to say “yes” instead of “no” to writer-driven projects that are unusually heavy lifts, i.e., that are perceived as especially challenging, or otherwise difficult to produce.
Deadline: June 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Working Assumptions Project Grants
Working Assumptions supports visual storytelling that explores family and caregiving through photography and first-person narratives.
Deadline: June 1, 2026

Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition
$5,000 prize, interview in Writer’s Digest, paid trip to conference, and pitch opportunity.
Deadline: June 1, 2026

Grants for Sustainable Textile Innovation
NYFIC awards grants that advance environmentally sustainable innovations using fibers and materials grown, processed, or made in New York State across four key areas: Fiber Cultivation and Processing, Next-Generation Biomaterials and Manufacturing, Textile Supply Chain and Infrastructure Development, and Sustainable Fashion and Interior Design Industry Uses. Project awards up to $10,000
Deadline: June 1, 2026

Oral History Project Grant – Hagley Library
Grants up to $5,000 plus free archiving and indexing. (History, oral history)
Deadline: June 1, 2026

Artadia Awards: San Francisco Bay Area
Three Awardees to receive unrestricted funds of $15,000, as well as access to the Artadia Network. Awardees are determined based on the sole discretion of the jury.
Deadline: June 1, 2026

Alan Andres Picture Book Writer Fellowship
Provides an emerging writer of a picture book for children with financial support and editorial assistance needed to complete one work for children ages 0 to 10. (Writing)
Deadline: June 5, 2026

«(NEW)» New City Critics Fellowship 2026-2027
New City Critics aims to expand who writes about cities and shapes our public imagination. A partnership between Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York, the fellowship supports the development of critics from underrepresented backgrounds through guest lectures and workshops, research guidance, networking, and the production of new writing on a dedicated platform on Urban Omnibus. Fellows will be awarded a stipend of $7,500 for participation in the 9-month fellowship.
Deadline: June 11, 2026

«(NEW)» Muses & Melanin Fellowship for BIPOC Creative Writers
A fully funded 7-month hybrid cohort-based professional development program for creative writers of color who aspire to become professional authors. (Writing)
Deadline: June 12, 2026

«(NEW)» James Laughlin Award
The winning poet receives a prize of $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately twelve hundred Academy of American Poets members.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. The prize includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to approximately twenty five hundred Academy of American Poets members.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

The Meridian Award
The Meridian Award is an independent international award granting a $1,000 unrestricted cash prize to one contemporary artist working in any medium.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

PEN America U.S. 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.
Deadline: June 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award
$25,000 The award is given to current or former academic faculty members of any US college who have inspired their former students to “create an organization which has demonstrably conferred a benefit on the community at large.”
Deadline: June 16, 2026

Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award
An $8,000 cash grant to a New York State-based playwright or screenwriter who self-identifies as LGBTQ+, including those who live within the five boroughs of New York City. (Writing)
Deadline: June 16, 2026

«(NEW)» AFAC Music Grant
AFAC’s Music grant supports music production, performances, collaborations, album recordings, music-related podcasts, and festivals. The Music grant program provides annual grants of up to USD 25,000 for individuals and teams, and up to USD 35,000 for collectives and institutions.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

Cooper Prize
The prize is open internationally, to published or unpublished playwrights. The winning playwright will receive a $20,000 AUD prize and their work will be considered for a full commission for production. All finalists receive a professionally directed public reading of their submitted scene with professional actors.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

Evolution Grant
Art Fluent’s grant cycle is now open to individual artists through an international open call. The Evolution Grant will provide unrestricted funding to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art.
Deadline: June 19, 2026

«(NEW)» Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects
Unrestricted project-based grants of $2,500 awarded to 65 artists working in all disciplines across Washington State, including Literary Arts such as Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Zines. (Multidisciplinary)
Deadline: June 22, 2026

«(NEW)» Ian Potter Emerging Artist Grants
The Emerging Artist Grants program is an international open call for grants of up to $15,000 to assist talented emerging and early-career artists in taking up professional development opportunities.
Deadline: June 23, 2026

«(NEW)» NEH - Media Projects
Supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities,
Deadline: June 25, 2026

«(NEW)» Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship
The program is designed for researchers, artists, and practitioners whose work advances thoughtful, practical, and imaginative approaches to how technology is designed, governed, and experienced in public life, and provides a one-year unrestricted award of up to $60,000 to support research, creative practice, or community-engaged work.
Deadline: June 28, 2026

«(NEW)» Women Photograph + Leica Grant
Three $10,000 grants will be awarded to support photography projects — either new or in-progress — from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity.
Deadline: June 30, 2026

«(NEW)» 2025–26 Living Traditions: Folk Art and Beyond Grant
This program celebrates and invests in the cultural practices and creative expressions that connect communities across the Creative West region.
Deadline: June 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Sofia Coppola Emerging Filmmaker Prize
The Sofia Coppola Emerging Filmmaker Prize awards $20,000 to support an emerging filmmaker in developing their work. (Film)
Deadline: June 30, 2026

Ellis-Beauregard Foundation – Visual Arts Award
$50,000 award plus exhibition opportunity in Maine. (Visual arts)
Deadline: July 1, 2026

«(NEW)» 2026 Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
Grant for Black trans women visual artists, presented by QUEER|ART.
Deadline: July 2, 2026

Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE for Artists Books
The Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE awards $5,000 to publish an artist book on the topic of book banning/burning in an edition of at least 100 copies. (Literary Arts)
Deadline: July 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 9th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. (Fine Arts)
Deadline: July 17, 2026

«(NEW)» On the Brinck Prize
Places Journal awards the Brinck Prize for innovative writing on the built environment, landscape, and public space. The winner of the On the Brinck | Places Prize will receive an honorarium of $7,500 to research and write a major work of public scholarship for publication in Places Journal, and present a related public lecture at the SA+P at University of New Mexico. The prize is open to institutionally affiliated as well as independent scholars and journalists.
Deadline: July 17, 2026

«(NEW)» Center For Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowship
The Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writer Fellowship offers grants, editorial mentorship, and other opportunities to early-career New York City-based practitioners who are at a critical moment in their development as fiction writers.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

«(NEW)» The Grateful American Book Prize
Prize for outstanding historical fiction, non-fiction, and biographies for readers ages 11-15. The Prize seeks to promote engagement with American history among young readers. The winner will receive a $13,000 award, a lifetime membership to The New York Historical, and a medallion designed by artist Clarice Smith.
Deadline: July 31, 2026

Film & Video Poetry Symposium
International symposium and screening platform for poetry-driven moving-image work combining film, video, and poetry.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF)
Multiple grants programs available for women, nonbinary or trans journalists, with funds available for indigenous journalists, newsroom safety, & more.
Deadline: Rolling

Institute for Humane Studies – Expense & Event Support Grants
Grants supporting research, travel, collaborations, and academic events within the liberal tradition.
Deadline: Rolling

Economic Hardship Reporting Project – Reporting Grants
Grants for journalism on poverty, labor, and economic precarity in the U.S.
Deadline: Rolling

IndieSpace Grants
Multiple funding programs for historically excluded artists, small companies, and indie venues, open year-round or at varying times.
Deadline: Varies

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Supports visual and performing artists with urgent funding for unexpected opportunities or expenses.
Deadline: Ongoing

CERF+ Emergency Grants
Emergency relief grants for artists in craft or materials-based disciplines who have experienced a career-threatening emergency.
Deadline: Rolling

Sloan Distribution Grant
The Sloan Distribution Grant is a $50,000 grant awarded by Film Independent to a film that is entering its distribution phase.
Deadline: Rolling

Max’s Kansas City Project - Emergency Grants
Max’s Emergency Relief & Resource Fund is a one-time grant of between $500 and $1000 to assist self-employed artists who are New York State Residents and who have a steady work history, but who are experiencing a temporary financial set back.
Deadline: Ongoing

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You’ll also get:

• Two (2) massive opportunity lists each month (early- and mid-month)

• One 30-minute complimentary consultation

• Access to the full archive

• «Coming soon» Searchable database + application helper

«(NEW)» Firelight Media’s Documentary Lab Application
Designed for filmmakers of color working on their first or second feature documentary, this 12-month fellowship provides professional development, customized mentorship, and a $25K project budget.
Deadline: May 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Curatorial Program for Research - Hello New York
CPR Hello New York is a free professional development and networking program for resident and non-resident artists, running June 15-27. (Curatorial)
Deadline: May 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Café Royal Grants Cultural Foundation Grant
Grants in literature, music, performance, and visual arts. Up to $10,000.
Deadline: May 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Documentary Producing Lab
The Documentary Story Lab only accepts projects in the final stages of production or early post-production. The Lab is for directors, although director/producers can apply. The Documentary Producing Lab accepts projects in active development, production or post-production.
Deadline: May 4, 2026

NYSCA Reserve Fund Grants (via NYFA)
Grants of up to $50,000 to help New York State nonprofit arts organizations who’ve received NYSCA funding in the past to establish or expand financial reserve funds.
Deadline: May 5, 2026

Vilcek Foundation — Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Culinary Arts
$50,000 prizes for immigrant professionals in Culinary Arts (Media & Storytelling; Food & Beverage).
Deadline: May 5, 2026

Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa Artist Fellowship offers three years of funding, housing, and studio space to create meaningful work in Tulsa, with the aim of bringing artists from all over US.
Deadline: May 7, 2026

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Grants ranging from $15,000–$50,000 supporting emerging and established writers producing articles, books, or short-form writing about contemporary visual art for general or specialized audiences.
Deadline: May 7, 2026

«(NEW)» Clara Johnson Award
An award for a specific work of prose or a body of work of fiction or nonfiction prose published within 2025. (Writing)
Deadline: May 8, 2026

«(NEW)» Prisma Art Prize
Prisma Art Prize is an international art competition dedicated to promoting emerging painters and visual artists. $2000.
Deadline: May 10, 2026

«(NEW)» Michigan Central Art and Newlab Detroit Creative Residency
Fellowship and residency at the intersection of art, technology, and health. 4 fellows will each receive $30,000. (All Disciplines).
Deadline: May 10, 2026

«(NEW)» Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
One-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies for artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography. (Multidisciplinary)
Deadline: May 12, 2026

The Hopper Prize Spring 2026
Unrestricted cash grants of $4,500 and $1,000 to visual artists around the globe.
Deadline: May 12, 2026

«(NEW)» National Book Foundation National Book Awards
4 prizes of $10,000 for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and young people’s literature, plus $10,000 for translated work.
Deadline: May 13, 2026

«(NEW)» Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award
$5,000 for a second poetry collection, plus a weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach.
Deadline: May 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
$25,000 for a poetry collection, plus a 10-day residency at Glen Hollow cottage in Naples, NY.
Deadline: May 15, 2026

CENTRO Rooted & Relational Archives Fellow
Fellowship for early-career archivists for the 2026-2027 academic year. $20,000 stipend.
Deadline: May 15, 2026

«(NEW)» ISLAA Fellowship 2026
The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in Manhattan is offering research fellowships. The fellowship program supports MA and PhD students enrolled in graduate programs in the United States. Providing resources and a $2,500 stipend to advance innovative research, this fellowship offers direct, in-person access to ISLAA's extensive archival collections and more than 1,000 artist files. (Arts)
Deadline: May 15, 2026

Collective Intelligence Project Research Fellows
3 fellows researching AI, public values, and democratic governance. Part-time, 6 months, remote, with $9,000 stipend.
Deadline: May 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Crooks Corner Book Prize
A $5,000 prize for the best debut novel set in the American South. The submitted book must be the author’s first published novel for adult readers. (Writing)
Deadline: May 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Montreal International Poetry Prize
Awarding $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of forty or fewer lines. The shortlist is published in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology. (Writing)
Deadline: May 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Leeway Foundation Transformation Awards
$15,000 each for women, trans, and gender-nonconforming poets, fiction, and creative nonfiction writers in the Philadelphia area creating art for social change for 5+ years.
Deadline: May 15, 2026

Migration in Changing Climates
Migration in Changing Climates is an interdisciplinary fellowship that invites applicants to propose projects that engage migration as an ecological, cultural, ethical, and imaginative force reshaping where and how life can move. (Any Discipline)
Deadline: May 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award
A prize of $25,000 and a two- to three-day residency at Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, is given annually for a book of fiction or nonfiction published in the previous two years that centers on the creative process of an artist.
Deadline: May 15, 2026

Urban History Association Awards
Annually, the Urban History Association recognizes excellence in urban history scholarship through a series of writing and publishing awards. Prizes range from $500–$1,000, and honor books and articles within specific topic areas.
Deadline: May 15, 2026

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• Two (2) massive opportunity lists each month (early- and mid-month)

• One 30-minute complimentary consultation

• Access to the full archive

• «Coming soon» Searchable database + application helper

«(NEW)» The Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction
International short fiction prize with first prize of €2,000, a week’s residency at Civitella Ranieri Foundation, agent consultation, and manuscript assessment.
Deadline: April 19, 2026

«(NEW)» GHOSTMACHINE Gallery - Annual Open Call 2026
Curated by MoMA Curatorial Associate Dominika Tylcz. Winners get a two- or three-person show in Chinatown, NYC this summer. (Visual Arts)
Deadline: April 19, 2026

Tree of Life Artist Grant Program
Grant program for U.S. visual artists age 60+ with demonstrable financial need to support the creation of new work across media including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, film, and performance.
Deadline: April 20, 2026

«(NEW)» BMI Composer Lab
The BMI Composer Lab offers a window into the artistry of storytelling through music. This one-of-a-kind opportunity focuses on nurturing and inspiring the next generation of composers by providing essential tools, knowledge, and connections to thrive in the competitive field of music for visual media.(Music)
Deadline: April 24, 2026

«(NEW)» Arts on the Block
Arts on the Block is a grassroots initiative designed to provide small grants of up to $1,500 specifically for artist fees for arts activities at Bronx block parties and single block festivals. (Community Art, Performance, Music)
Deadline: April 24, 2026

Page 73 - 2027 Prize for Playwriting
Provides a year of comprehensive support to one early-career playwright who has not received a professional production in New York City. The Playwriting Fellow receives an unrestricted award of $20,000 and a development budget, managed by Page 73 and the Fellow over the course of the Fellowship year, up to an additional $10,000.
Deadline: April 26, 2026

«(NEW)» The Impact Award for Native American Art
Harpo Foundation offers a $25,000 fellowship to amplify the contributions of under-recognized Native American contemporary visual artists.
Deadline: April 27, 2026

«(NEW)» 3pts Artists & Makers Impact Fund
The 3pts Artists & Makers Impact Fund is a $3,500 award supporting U.S.-based, mid-career artists and makers who create tangible objects or goods and are actively building sustainable creative businesses. (Visual Art,Ceramics,Crafts,Design,Fiber Arts, Sculpture, Printmaking)
Deadline: April 27, 2026

«(NEW)» Bob Dylan Center Songwriter Fellowship
The Fellowship was created to refine songwriting skills while forging meaningful connections with music industry creative executives through the resources of the Bob Dylan Center. Each Fellowship encompasses a $25,000 project stipend, roundtrip airfare, and travel accommodations to Tulsa, and recording time in Tulsa’s historic The Church Studio, the famous studio of Leon Russell. (Music)
Deadline: April 27, 2026

Perelman Performing Arts Center – The Democracy Cycle 2026
Artists creating new work in theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance can apply for this commissioning program, which provides $60,000 in support to each awarded project.
Deadline: April 28, 2026 (5pm ET)

«(NEW)» The Democracy Cycle
The Democracy Cycle at Perelman Performing Arts Center commissions new live performing arts works in theater, dance, music, opera, and multidisciplinary practices (Performing Arts)
Deadline: April 28, 2026

«(NEW)» David Bellos Translation Prize
Literary agency Janklow & Nesbit UK has launched the David Bellos Translation Prize for translations of fiction into English and championing global literary voices. The winning translator will receive £2,000 in prize money. With the support of the author, the translated project will be submitted to publishers in the UK and US by a Janklow & Nesbit UK agent. (Translation, Literary)
Deadline: April 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship
The Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship is designed for post-doctoral candidates and junior scholars whose research advances the study of Afro-Latinx communities in the United States. (Research, Any Discipline)
Deadline: April 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowships
A 12-month career-launching program providing emerging writers with a $50,000 stipend, professional development opportunities, and teaching creative writing experience. (Writing)
Deadline: April 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Apophatic Art Practice and Research Exhibition & Publication
This project invites artists, art(istic) researchers, art scholars, and art educators to create a multimodal, curated publication and exhibition capturing silences, hesitations, and ineffable moments through various artistic media, narratives, and encounters with the unsayable.
Deadline: April 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Recess - Critical Writing Open Call 2026
Critical Writing at Recess supports exchange between artists and writers. Participants receive a $4,000 stipend for writing, collaborative work, and cohort sessions. (Literary Arts)
Deadline: April 30, 2026

«(NEW)» 2026 Inge Morath Award
Grant given to a woman or nonbinary photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. $7,500 project grant.
Deadline: April 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress
Whiting Nonfiction Grants offer $40,000 to ten writers completing a deeply researched and imaginatively composed book-length work of nonfiction for a general adult readership. (Literary Arts)
Deadline: April 30, 2026

South Arts Creative Practice Grants
Supports professional development opportunities and milestone activities in an artist’s career that will likely lead to substantial career growth. (Multidisciplinary)
Deadline: April 30, 2026

The Cave Canem Prize
Supports the work of Black poets to overcome the obstacle of publishing their first book of poems. Winner receives $10,000; publication through one of our partner presses; 15 copies of the book; and a featured reading.
Deadline: April 30, 2026

CT Arts Foundation Spring 2026 Grant for Connecticut-Based Painters
This $75,000 competitive award will provide unrestricted financial support to individual artists from Connecticut to advance their practice, support professional development, and sustain creative work.
Deadline: April 30, 2026

The Open Fund — Artist Grants (Wisconsin)
Funding opportunity supporting artists through grant awards; details available on program website.
Deadline: April 30, 2026

Vilcek Foundation Grants
$5,000–$20,000 grants for nonprofits supporting immigrants in arts and sciences. (Arts, sciences, education)
Deadline: April 30, 2026

O’Shaughnessy Fellowships & Grants
$100,000 one-year fellowships and $10,000 grants for interdisciplinary innovators. (Research, creative practice)
Deadline: April 30, 2026

«(NEW)» Halstead Grant
The health of the jewelry industry depends on the continuous flow of new talent and design creativity. The grand prize consists of $7,500 in start-up capital and $1,000 in merchandise as well as recognition in the industry.
Deadline: May 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Bard Graduate Center Fields of the Future Fellowships
Fellowship for distinguished scholar to study the site’s decorative arts collections, culminating in a research presentation as part of a June 2027 convening. Stipend of $3,500/month.
Deadline: May 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Jacques Pépin Foundation Principal Grant ProgramThe Jacques Pépin Foundation Principal Grant Program provides one-time unrestricted grants of up to $10,000 to help strengthen and expand eligible culinary training programs across the United States. (Culinary Arts, Arts Administration)
Deadline: May 1, 2026

Franklin Furnace – Jacki Apple Award
$10,000 grant supporting New York-based performance artists. (Performance art)
Deadline: May 1, 2026

«(NEW)» The Purpose Prize from AARP
The Purpose Prize from AARP honors extraordinary older Americans who put their purpose into action to support AARP’s mission of empowering people to choose how they live as they age. Winners receive $75,000 and a year of organizational support from AARP to grow the impact of their nonprofits. (Leadership)
Deadline: May 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Create and Connect Micro Grant
The Laundromat Project offers Create and Connect micro grants of $1,500 for artists. (Arts)
Deadline: May 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize
Annual prize for writing on a theme TBD. First place £3,000, second and third place £1,000 each. (Writing)
Deadline: May 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Artists with Disabilities Access Program (ADAP)
Grants are awarded to individual artists at both the emerging artist level ($500) and professional artist level (up to $2,500), with no cash match required, based in Ohio. Applicants may receive only one ADAP award per year. Artists with Disabilities Access Program grantees generally receive their full request.
Deadline: May 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Waterston Desert Writing Prize
The winner is awarded a $3,000 cash prize, residency at PLAYA in Summer Lake, Oregon, and is recognized at a reading and awards celebration at the High Desert Museum.
Deadline: May 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film
The Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film recognizes exemplary documentary films that tell compelling stories about American history. A prize of $200,000 is awarded to one winner, a secondary prize of $50,000 to one runner-up, and $25,000 to each of four finalists.
Deadline: May 3, 2026

«(NEW)» Small World Music Incubator
A five-month professional development program for newcomer, immigrant, and underrepresented community artists building careers in the Toronto Area. (Music)
Deadline: May 3, 2026

«(NEW)» Café Royal Grants Cultural Foundation Grant
Grants in literature, music, performance, and visual arts.
Deadline: May 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Documentary Producing Lab
The Documentary Story Lab only accepts projects in the final stages of production or early post-production. The Lab is for directors, although director/producers can apply. The Documentary Producing Lab accepts projects in active development, production or post-production. Applicants who are also directing the project they are submitting are ineligible.
Deadline: May 4, 2026

«(NEW)» Curatorial Program for Research - Hello New York
CPR Hello New York is a free professional development and networking program for resident and non-resident artists, running June 15-27. (Curatorial)
Deadline: May 4, 2026

«(NEW)» NYSCA Reserve Fund Grants (via NYFA)
Grants of up to $50,000 to help New York State nonprofit arts organizations establish or expand financial reserve funds.
Deadline: May 5, 2026

Vilcek Foundation — Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Culinary Arts
$50,000 prizes for immigrant professionals in Culinary Arts (Media & Storytelling; Food & Beverage).
Deadline: May 5, 2026

«(NEW)» Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa Artist Fellowship offers three years of funding, housing, and studio space to create meaningful work in Tulsa, with the aim of bringing artists from all over US.
Deadline: May 7, 2026

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Grants ranging from $15,000–$50,000 supporting emerging and established writers producing articles, books, or short-form writing about contemporary visual art for general or specialized audiences.
Deadline: May 7, 2026

«(NEW)» Prisma Art Prize
Prisma Art Prize is an international art competition dedicated to promoting emerging painters and visual artists.
Deadline: May 10, 2026

«(NEW)» The Hopper Prize Spring 2026
We provide unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $4,500 and $1,000 to artists around the globe.
Deadline: May 12, 2026

«(NEW)» Migration in Changing Climates
Migration in Changing Climates is an interdisciplinary fellowship that invites applicants to propose projects that engage migration as an ecological, cultural, ethical, and imaginative force reshaping where and how life can move. (Any Discipline)
Deadline: May 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award
A prize of $25,000 and a two- to three-day residency at Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, is given annually for a book of fiction or nonfiction published in the previous two years that centers on the creative process of an artist ... (Literary Arts)
Deadline: May 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Urban History Association Awards
Annually, the Urban History Association recognizes excellence in urban history scholarship through a series of writing and publishing awards. Prizes range from $500–$1,000, and honor books and articles within specific topic areas.
Deadline: May 15, 2026

Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History
Annual $4,000 prize recognizing innovative publicly available digital history or new media projects launched within the last two years.
Deadline: May 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Pillars Bylines
Pillars Bylines supports early-career freelance Muslim journalists focused on culture with the funding, community, and professional development needed to do this work. (Journalism,Writing)
Deadline: May 15, 2026

«(NEW)» Abbey Mural Prize
The Abbey Mural Prize supports the creation and restoration of public murals in the United States. Grants are awarded to create or restore public murals, especially those that promote accessibility and serve local audiences, and typically range from $10,000 to $40,000.
Deadline: May 18, 2026

«(NEW)» Fall Movement 2026 / Spring Movement 2027 - Open Call
Center for Performance Research (CPR) solicits applications for two distinct shared programs curated by an independent panel of artists through an open call. (Performing Arts)
Deadline: May 18, 2026

NPN Creation & Development Fund
Commissioning support program for new performance-based artistic works that advance racial and cultural justice. Provides multi-level financial support through commissioning funds and direct subsidies.
Deadline: May 18, 2026

The JGS Fellowship for Photography
Five fellowships of $8,000 each for New York State photography artists living and working outside NYC, supporting work in traditional or experimental photography and related light-based practices.
Deadline: May 19, 2026

Center for Craft – 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship
Four $5,000 awards will be offered to fellows conducting research on underrepresented craft histories. The fellowship will culminate with a featured article on Hyperallergic and a virtual program hosted by the Center for Craft.
Deadline: May 20, 2026

«(NEW)» VIA Art Fund Artistic Production Grant
VIA’s Artistic Production Grants fund the production of newly commissioned works of visual art exhibited beyond museum walls, in the public realm, or in non-traditional exhibition environments. These grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify VIA’s three core values of Artistic Production, Thought Leadership, and Public Engagement. Grant amounts range from $25,000 to $100,000.
Deadline: May 21, 2026

«(NEW)» Light of Day Award - New Theatre Script Submissions
The New Theatre in Dublin seeks full-length scripts from emerging and mid-career playwrights. Selected writers will receive critical analysis feedback from our panel of dramaturgs and fellow artists. Audience members will be encouraged to give anonymous feedback through tailored written feedback forms. Should your play go forward for production in The New Theatre, the playwright will receive free dramaturgical support from TNT to further develop their script as well as free development space in which to write. (Performing Arts)
Deadline: May 29, 2026

«(NEW)» Amoeba Productions - Call for Plays/Scripts
We are currently seeking playwrights, directors, producers, and creative teams to submit work for our Winter 2027 and Spring 2027 production slots. We are looking for shows that have not been produced/staged in NYC yet.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Buried Creek Collective’s Climate Education for Writers Program
Buried Creek Collective’s free Climate Education for Writers Program teaches participants about Philadelphia’s changing environment through hands-on experiences, meetings with experts, and instruction on waterways, land use, ecology, and infrastructure.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2 - 5 week stay at Oak Spring.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

Jonathan & Barbara Silver Foundation – Grant for Writing on Sculpture
Grant supporting emerging and established writers and scholars focused on sculpture.
Deadline: May 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Grants for Sustainable Textile Innovation
The New York Fashion Innovation Center (NYFIC) funds New York-based businesses, organizations, and individuals working to advance and scale sustainable textile development for fashion and interiors. NYFIC awards grants that advance environmentally sustainable innovations using fibers and materials grown, processed, or made in New York State across four key areas: Fiber Cultivation and Processing, Next-Generation Biomaterials and Manufacturing, Textile Supply Chain and Infrastructure Development, and Sustainable Fashion and Interior Design Industry Uses. Maximum award per project is $10,000
Deadline: June 1, 2026

Oral History Project Grant – Hagley Library
Grants up to $5,000 plus free archiving and indexing. (History, oral history)
Deadline: June 1, 2026

Ellis-Beauregard Foundation – Visual Arts Award
$50,000 award plus exhibition opportunity in Maine. (Visual arts)
Deadline: July 1, 2026

«(NEW)» Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE for Artists Books
The Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE awards $5,000 to publish an artist book on the topic of book banning/burning in an edition of at least 100 copies. (Literary Arts)
Deadline: July 4, 2026

«(NEW)» The Grateful American Book Prize
Prize for outstanding historical fiction, non-fiction, and biographies for readers ages 11-15. The Prize seeks to promote engagement with American history among young readers. The winner will receive a $13,000 award, a lifetime membership to The New York Historical, and a medallion designed by artist Clarice Smith. Two Honorable Mention recipients will receive $500, each, and the medallion. (Writing)
Deadline: July 31, 2026

Film & Video Poetry Symposium
International symposium and screening platform for poetry-driven moving-image work combining film, video, and poetry.
Deadline: August 31, 2026

«(NEW)» International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF)
Multiple grants programs available for women, nonbinary or trans journalists, with funds available for indigenous journalists, newsroom safety, & more.
Deadline: Rolling

Institute for Humane Studies – Expense & Event Support Grants
Grants supporting research, travel, collaborations, and academic events within the liberal tradition.
Deadline: Rolling

Economic Hardship Reporting Project – Reporting Grants
Grants for journalism on poverty, labor, and economic precarity in the U.S.
Deadline: Rolling

IndieSpace Grants
Multiple funding programs for historically excluded artists, small companies, and indie venues, open year-round or at varying times.
Deadline: Varies

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Supports visual and performing artists with urgent funding for unexpected opportunities or expenses.
Deadline: Ongoing

CERF+ Emergency Grants
Emergency relief grants for artists in craft or materials-based disciplines who have experienced a career-threatening emergency.
Deadline: Rolling

Sloan Distribution Grant
The Sloan Distribution Grant is a $50,000 grant awarded by Film Independent to a film that is entering its distribution phase.
Deadline: Rolling

Max’s Kansas City Project - Emergency Grants
Max’s Emergency Relief & Resource Fund is a one-time grant of between $500 and $1000 to assist self-employed artists who are New York State Residents and who have a steady work history, but who are experiencing a temporary financial set back.
Deadline: Ongoing

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• Two (2) massive opportunity lists each month (early- and mid-month)

• One 30-minute complimentary consultation

• Access to the full archive

• «Coming soon» Searchable database + application helper

«(NEW)» Colorado Authors Hall of Fame Scholarships
Offers scholarships to aspiring unpublished Colorado authors including funding and an extensive 12-month mentoring program. (Writing)
Deadline: March 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Eleanor Taylor Bland Grant
An annual grant for an emerging writer of color to support crime fiction writing and career development activities. (Writing)
Deadline: March 31, 2026

A Public Space — Writing Fellowships
Three six-month fellowships of $1,000 each for emerging poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers without a published book. Fellows work with editors to prepare a piece for publication, receive access to A Public Space master classes, and meet publishing professionals.
Deadline: March 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Eleanor Taylor Bland Grant
An annual grant for an emerging writer of color to support crime fiction writing and career development activities. (Writing)
Deadline: March 31, 2026

Banipal Trust for Arab Literature — Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
Annual prize of £3,000 (approx. $4,038) for a poetry collection or book of fiction translated from Arabic into English; £1,000 runner-up prize. Eligible works must have been published in English during the previous year.
Deadline: March 31, 2026

Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Prize
Five annual prizes of $10,000 each for excerpts from poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction manuscripts-in-progress written by booksellers currently employed at a bookstore or comic shop in the U.S.
Deadline: March 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award
Prize of $5,000, publication by New York Quarterly Books, and 25 author copies for a collection of narrative poetry. Winner also invited to give a reading in Paterson, NJ.
Deadline: March 31, 2026

Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Annual $25,000 prize for a book of fiction published in the previous year that reflects themes central to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, including equity, freedom, non-violence, and ecological awareness.
Deadline: March 31, 2026

Safe Haven Fellowship
Supports scholars at risk who are unable to carry out their work due to conflict or war. (Multidisciplinary)
Deadline: March 31, 2026

Ephemere Photobook Grant 2026
Send your physical dummy to this Tokyo-based photography platform for the chance to have it published as a fully funded monograph, designed and produced in Japan. The winner will also receive round-trip airfare to Tokyo for the official book launch.
Deadline: March 31, 2026

Kickstarter – Long Story Short (2026)
Annual open call for short film projects launching on Kickstarter. (Film, animation, documentary)
Deadline: March 31, 2026

The 2026 Silvers Grants for Work in Progress
Up to $10,000 to support long-form writing in the fields of literary criticism, arts writing, political analysis, and/or social reportage.
Deadline: March 31, 2026

Wilmers Integrity Prize
$50,000 prize recognizing transformative leadership and social impact; finalists receive $5,000. (Cross-disciplinary)
Deadline: March 31, 2026

Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award
International Women’s Media Foundation presents a global award for women and gender-nonconforming photojournalists; $20,000 cash prize.
Deadline: March 31, 2026

MET Publication Grants (Leonard A. Lauder Research Center)
Grants supporting book-length and peer-reviewed publications in modern art and visual culture.
Deadline: March 31, 2026

«(NEW)» Artadia Awards: New York City
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists.
Deadline: April 1, 2026

Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art (2026–27)
Grants of $2,000–$10,000 supporting major performance art works in New York City.
Deadline: April 1, 2026

Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
Competition for self-published books with a Grand Prize of $10,000, an interview in Writer’s Digest, paid trip to Writer’s Digest Annual Conference, and publication exposure. (Writing)
Deadline: April 1, 2026

Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System Grants
Grants up to $100,000 for early-career scholars using causal research methods. (Social sciences)
Deadline: April 1, 2026

Creative Capital Awards
Creative Capital provides individual artists with unrestricted project grants between $15,000 and $50,000 to create new works in the visual arts, performing arts, film, and literature.
Deadline: April 2, 2026

«(NEW)» Arab Fund for Arts and Culture - Performing Arts Grant
Supports the production and distribution of classical, folk, and contemporary forms of theater and dance performances for all age groups. The grant also supports public and site-specific interventions, performance art, and festivals, as well as training and workshops. The Performing Arts grant program provides annual grants of up to USD 25,000 for individuals and teams, and up to USD 35,000 for collectives and institutions.
Deadline: April 2, 2026

«(NEW)» Mu Tang Clan Playwrights Incubator
Four early-career playwrights will be selected for MTC Vol 3. The weekly three-hour sessions will be held at Theater Mu in Saint Paul, MN, from July to October 2026. Provides: $1,000 unrestricted stipend, 1-1 dramaturgy session(s), time each week to receive feedback and guidance on new pages, and more.
Deadline: April 3, 2026

APF Visionary Grants
Ten grants of up to $20,000 supporting psychology-based social impact projects. (Psychology, social research)
Deadline: April 3, 2026

«(NEW)» Free 1-on-1 NYFA Career Advice Sessions for Single Mother Visual Artists
Free one-on-one career advice sessions offered by NYFA for visual artists who are single mothers, made possible through support from an anonymous donor.
Deadline: April 7, 2026

Anonymous Was A Woman – Environmental Art Grants
Grants up to $20,000 supporting environmental art by women and nonbinary artists in NYS; over $470,000 distributed. (Environmental art)
Deadline: April 7, 2026

«(NEW)» Dancing Futures Residency — Pepatián & BAAD!
Residency for three NYC-based early-career dance artists of color and/or emerging Bronx-based dance artists. Includes mentorship, peer feedback, a $4,000 honorarium, and a public work-in-progress showing.
Deadline: April 8, 2026

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