Extra! Extra! (April)
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(NEW) Page 73 2025 Playwriting Fellowship and Writers Group
These two development programs are for early-career playwrights. Fellows receive $20,000, plus a $10,000 development budget and a public workshop; Writers Group members receive $3,000.
Deadline: April 28, 2024
(NEW) The Laundromat Project Micro-Grants
The LP Fund seeds and supports the creative ideas or civic actions of artists, cultural practitioners, community organizers, activists, and neighbors whose proposals aim to enrich community life in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. We will provide $1000 grants towards 20 projects.
Deadline: May 1, 2024
(NEW) Lillstreet Art Center
Offers year-long residencies in the departments of ceramics and metalsmithing, and 9-month residencies in textiles, drawing & painting, and printmaking & book arts. There is a $20 application fee.
Deadline: May 1, 2024
(NEW) Tree of Life Grant Program
Tree of Life welcomes applications from artists of recognizable artistic merit, age 60 and over, who are permanent residents of the United States.
Deadline: April 19, 2024
(NEW) SOZO Fellowship Pilot
This 6-month coaching program is designed to equip full time working, mid-career independent artists with sustainability and entrepreneurship training to reach new heights in their livelihood and creative endeavors.
Deadline: April 18, 2024
(NEW) Vanguard Arts Fund
Olney Theatre Center's Vanguard Arts Fund provides developmental support to diverse teams of artists interested in creating theatrical works. A successful proposal for new work will bring together more than one generative artist in an interdisciplinary fashion to explore new and classic stories
Deadline: May 1, 2024
(NEW) 2024 Inge Morath Award
The Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Estate present the annual Inge Morath Award, a $7,500 grant given to a woman or nonbinary photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project.
Deadline: April 30th 2024
(NEW) Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace
Workspace, is a nine-month studio-based program that focuses on the creative process and cohort development of artists. Situated within donated office space each year, participating artists are provided round-the-clock access to semi-private studio spaces.
Deadline: April 23, 2024
(NEW) HBCU Fellowship Program - AWP
The #AWP25 HBCU Fellowships will be offered to two faculty members and four students. The fellowships include: A $4,000 honorarium for faculty; a $250 honorarium for students; Paid travel expenses and lodging for the duration of the conference; Meeting and discussion with Tayari Jones; Article Publication in the Writer’s Chronicle regarding their #AWP25 experience
Deadline: April 30, 2024
(NEW) Fundación Botín Art Grant
The Fundación Botín offers six Art Grants to artists of any nationality with an expected duration of nine months and an endowment of 23,000 euros each, to aid both training and the development of personal and research projects.
Deadline: May 3, 2024
(NEW) Warhol Foundation Artist Writers Grant
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing
Deadline: May 15, 2024
(NEW) The 2024-2025 BIPOC Critics Lab Cohort
Hosted by The Public Theater, The Lab is a mentorship and training program created by Jose Solís as a first-of-its-kind program designed to train and create work by emerging BIPOC theater journalists.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
(NEW) Processing Foundation Fellowship
The Processing Foundation’s 2024 Fellowship Program is themed ‘Sustaining Community: Expansion & Access,’ and seeks to support innovative projects from artists, designers, activists, educators, engineers, researchers, coders, collectives, and many more, who are working at the intersection of creative technology, art, and open-source software. The fellowship includes a $10,000 stipend, dedicated mentorship, skill-building workshops, public programs, and community engagement opportunities.
Deadline: May 2, 2024
(NEW) Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award an exhibition/project grant to NYC artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs. Artists in all genres of visual arts are eligible to receive up to $10,000 in funding.
Deadline: May 6, 2024
(NEW) Vilcek Prize
The Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise support emerging to mid-career immigrant professionals who have demonstrated exceptional achievements early in their careers. Young immigrant visual artists, curators and research scientists are welcome to apply. Nine $50,000 cash awards
Deadline: June 10, 2024
(NEW) Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology
Proposals for new, original, multidisciplinary works in any medium will be accepted for a spring 2025 residency, including but not limited to: architecture, computational art, dance, film, gaming, installation, literature, media art, music, performance art, theater, visual arts, etc. The selected work will be granted a 7-to-10-day-long residency which will include a presentation, student involvement, and public presentation, as well as a $5,000 stipend.
Deadline: May 10, 2024
(NEW) Self Organizations
Mophradat's Self Organizations program offers support for projects where arts practitioners join forces to define a mutual resource or interest that's important for their work and propose ways to share or develop it. The program supports projects across two different categories: informal co-ops and topical assemblies. Arts practitioners groups from all disciplines and stages of their careers are welcome to apply, with priority given to proposals taking place within the Arab world.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
(NEW) AGE Legacy Playwright Grant
The Legacy Playwright Grant invests in artists who have been underrepresented and underserved because of age, race and gender. The program awards individual unrestricted grants of $10,000 each to three BIPOC playwrights over the age of 40 that identify as a person of marginalized gender or gender-diverse.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
(NEW) Headlands Center for the Arts - Chamberlain Award
Chamberlain Award is a fully sponsored artist residency and $10,000 prize to support an artist working in the social practice discipline This award supports artists employing non-traditional media to creatively engage with social concerns of the day.
Deadline: June 3, 2024
(NEW) Queer | Art - Illuminations Grant
Awarded to draw attention to an existing body of work, this annual $10,000 grant is intended to support and shed light on Black trans women visual artists. Four finalists will also each receive $1,250.
Deadline: June 30, 2024
(NEW) Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding OR who incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Each month FCA makes approximately 12-21 grants ranging from $500 to $3,000.
Deadline: Rolling
(NEW) Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance
Applications open for FOUR different artist grants/forms of support for residents of northern Manhattan (Harlem, Inwood, Washington Heights).
Deadline: Various April deadlines, 2024
(NEW) Strokes of Genius Fellowship
Invested in the creativity and cultural production of Black artists and arts professionals, this open application program provides artists, curators, journalists and scholars with funding to develop new creative projects.
Deadline: April 21, 2024
(NEW) The Young Lance Fellowship
The 2024 Young Lance Fellowship is open to emerging writers from underrepresented communities, most typically defined as Black, Indigenous or Person of Color--but you will have an opportunity to express in your application the obstacles you have faced that might be addressed by this award. We welcome applications from writers at all levels, but we will prioritize EMERGING writers who have had limited opportunities to publish or share their work. Fellows have all their registration and housing fees covered (worth about $400) and receive a $400 travel stipend.
Deadline: May 10, 2024
Wolfsonian Creative Fellowship
Wolfsonian creative fellowships invite artists of all kinds—visual artists, designers, performers, writers, filmmakers, and musicians—to immerse themselves in the Wolfsonian collection and draw visual, conceptual or storytelling inspiration from its wide range of historical materials. The program includes a stipend, round-trip travel, and accommodations.
Deadline: April 30, 2024
Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History
The Cokie Roberts Research Fund supports one to three annual fellowships for emerging and established historians, journalists, authors, or graduate students performing research to elevate women’s history using National Archives records.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Harpo Foundation Grants
The Foundation currently makes grants up to $10,000 directly to under-recognized visual artists to support their development.
Deadline: April 29, 2024
Fireline Fellowship
The Fireline Fellowship invites writers, artists, and thought leaders in the humanities to explore issues related to wildfire at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest over a two-and-a-half year period. Fellows will receive a stipend and residency time.
Deadline: May 3, 2024
Sista Creatives Rising The Sistas Uprising Fund
Seven women of color and femme-expressing creatives of color in any medium, based in the US and Canada, will receive a $200 micro-grant by submitting a two-minute video about how funds will help, artwork, and additional details.
Deadline: May 5, 2024
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
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.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Ploughshares Emerging Writers Proze
The Emerging Writer’s Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book. One winner in each of the three genres is awarded publication, $2,000 and review from Aevitas Creative Management.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one 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 grant and a 2–5 week stay at Oak Spring.
Deadline: May 31, 2024
Franklin Furnace Xeno Prize for Artists' Books
The XENO PRIZE for Artists' Books recipient receives $5000 to publish one artist's book on the topic of book banning/burning in an edition of at least 100 copies.
Deadline: July 4, 2024
Poets & Writers Mini-Grants for Readings & Workshops
Small grants across the US for in-person readings, workshops and other literary events. Guidelines and eligibility vary from state to state.
Deadline: Rolling; Now funding projects through June 30, 2024
Shenandoah Fellowship for Emerging Editors
Selected fellows will receive a $1000 honorarium and will curate a selection of published work in a specific genre, working with the Shenandoah staff to guide the work to publication. This opportunity will give fellows the chance to learn about all aspects of a small literary publisher and create connections with peers and potential future employers in the industry and in academia.
Deadline: Rolling
Hopper Prize
The Hopper Prize was established to provide grants of $1000 to $3500, visibility, and career enhancing validation to visual artists across disciplines, and around the world, who demonstrate a serious commitment to their work.
Deadline: May 14, 2024
Soul Fire Farm - Braiding Seeds Fellowship
Braiding Seeds fellows receive a $50,000 stipend; a menu of professional development opportunities including 1:1 mentorship, workshops, farm finance and business plan support; cohort gatherings; and individualized coaching.
Deadline: May 1, 2024
Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grants
$40k grants for nonfiction books-in-progress and under contract
Deadline: April 23, 2024
Academy of American Poets
James Laughlin Award isa prize of $5,000 is given annually for a second book of poetry by a living poet to be published in the next calendar year.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Gottlieb Emergency Grant Program
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.
Deadline: Rolling
Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects
One New York City-based artist working in performance art. $10,000 to fund projects in performance, media, exhibition, and/or publication.
Deadline: April 30, 2024
High Desert Museum
Waterston Desert Writing Prize
A prize of $3,000 is given annually for a work of nonfiction that recognizes “the vital role deserts play worldwide in the ecosystem and the human narrative.”
Deadline: May 1, 2024
(NEW) MarthaMOCA Residency
MarthaMOCA provides one-month residencies for artists of all disciplines. Residents are given use of a fully furnished private live/work space with a studio, bathroom, & kitchen on the ground floor and a lofted bedroom above. The residency comes with a $500 stipend, and a weekly vegetable share. Residents are free to enjoy our 32 acre property with walking paths through the woods, a tranquil pond, lap pool, and garden. Because we are in a rural setting, it is preferable for residents to bring a vehicle. There are no requirements to create or produce work while in residence; we encourage artists to use their time as best suits their own process. The towns of Lambertville, New Hope, and Frenchtown are nearby and supply necessary amenities and entertainment. The closest train station is Hamilton Station via NJ Transit, and the closest airports are Newark and Philadelphia.
Deadline: May 1, 2024
(NEW) Marble House Project Residency
Marble House Project's residency project accommodates approximately eight artists and is specifically curated to bring together a diverse group of creative works to maximize potential for collaboration and dialogue while in residence and beyond. Applications are accepted in all creative fields. There is a $35 application fee.
Deadline: May 6, 2024
(NEW) Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden Performing Arts Salon Saturdays
Snug Harbor's Performing Arts Salon Saturdays (PASS) artist residency and performance program hosts four residencies that support the creation and development of new works in dance, music, theater, and multi-disciplinary performance. Selected artists receive $1,500 residency and performance honorarium
Deadline: April 18, 2024
(NEW) Farm Margaret River Residency
The residency, which comes with a $7,500 grant to cover expenses, is focused on site-specific projects, created during an eight-week period through research and collaboration while living at The Farm. The Farm offers space and time for artists, as individuals or a group, to consider our place in the natural environment, surrounded by the ancient beauty of South West Western Australia.
Deadline: June 2, 2024
(NEW) Art Omi - Critics/Curators-in-Residence
Art Omi seeks experienced art critics/writers (5+ years) for a three-and-a-half-week residency program. Art Omi offers the Critics/Curators-in-Residence a travel grant and a $1,500 honorarium, as well as a private room with a work space and meals.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
(NEW) Hedgebrook Writer in Residence (WiR)
The Writer in Residence (WiR) program supports women-identified writers from all over the world for residencies of two to four weeks at no cost to the writer. We welcome applicants, published or not, who embrace the mission and opportunity to be a member of Hedgebrook's community.
Deadline: June 12, 2024
(NEW) Cascade Canyon Artist in Residence
The Cascade Canyon Artist in Residence program at O'Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, California, provides artists of all disciplines the opportunity to explore, create, and reflect on the creative process. There is a $45 application fee
Deadline: May 1, 2024
(NEW) Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency
The Adirondack Center for Writing offers a free, two-week residency in autumn to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. There is a $30 application fee.
Deadline: May 19, 2024
(NEW) Orein
The Monastery Arts Residency brings artists and writers to live and create under summer skies at Mount Saviour Monastery near Elmira, NY. Here the simplicity and single-heartedness of the monastic life meets the creative, seeking energy of the artistic life.
Deadline: April 19, 2024
(NEW) Pen Parentis Fellowship
The Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents is a terrific annual opportunity for a writer with at least one very young child to really focus on their creative career.
Deadline: April 17, 2024
(NEW) JentelArts Residency
The Jentel Artist Residency Program offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment in which to further their creative development. Here artists and writers experience unfettered time to allow for thoughtful reflection and meditation on the creative process in a setting that preserves the agricultural and historical integrity of the land, located in Banner, Wyoming
Deadline: September 15, 2024
(NEW) Performing Arts Technology Lab
The Doris Duke Foundation's Performing Arts Technologies Lab is both a grant and a support system designed to expand access to and nurture new methods for creating, sharing and experiencing the performing arts. The program seeks innovative ideas from individuals, partnerships, and organizations, in jazz, contemporary dance, and theater that make use of new digital tools and production methods.
Deadline: May 6, 2024
The Studios of Key West
The Studios of Key West, the premier arts organization at the Southernmost Point of the United States, offers a residency program for emerging and established artists and writers from around the world. Residencies are available to visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Farm, Flock and Fiber Artist in Resident Program
Located in the foothills of Maine’s western mountains, A Wrinkle In Thyme Farm invites female-identifying fiber artists to build their portfolio while connecting with the sheep that make the medium possible. A typical week at the women-owned farm will consist of 20 hours of solo studio time, 15 hours of paid farm work (via monthly stipend), and a day to learn and collaborate with artist Marty Elkin. Residents also have the opportunity to sell their art at the local farmer’s market every Saturday between May and October.
Deadline: Rolling
PLAYA
PLAYA’s residencies are open to the global community of scientists and artists whose work promotes dialogue and positive change in the environment and the world. We encourage naturalists, biologists, musicians, designers, sustainability leaders, social practitioners, musicians, visual artists, writers, and performing artists to apply.
Deadline: May 30, 2024
Wachtmeister Award & Residency for Music Composition
The 2025 Wachtmeister Award is open to established composers and/or sound artists using acoustic sources. Eligible applicants will have worked professionally as a composer for at least the past 15 years with substantial national or international achievement in their field.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Wassaic Project Winter Residency
Artists receive 24-hour access to an adaptable, semi-private studio space in a historic grain elevator in Upstate New York, accommodations, and more. Fellowships with honorariums and no residency fees are available.
Deadline: May 6, 2024
(NEW) She Built NYC
The City of New York seeks artists interested in creating public monuments that honors women’s history. She Built NYC will honor Katherine Walker in Staten Island, Billie Holiday in Queens, Elizabeth Jennings Graham in Manhattan, and Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trias in the Bronx. The project budgets will range from $250K up to $750K and must include all project costs, including but not limited to the following: artist’s fees, design services, community engagement, site preparation, engineering, fabrication, travel, transportation of the work to the site, insurance, permits, installation, documentation of the artwork, and contingency.
Deadline: December 31, 2024
(NEW) Purely Liminal Magazine
Open genre
Deadline: April 20, 2024
(NEW) Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Deadline: April 30, 2024
(NEW) Palindrome Journal
Deadline: April 30, 2024
(NEW) Sierra Nevada Review
Deadline: May 1, 2024
(NEW) Split/Lip Press Chapbook Contest
Prose chapbooks
Deadline: May 31, 2024
(NEW) Anarchist Fictions Journal
Deadline: May 10, 2024
(NEW) The Machine Mag
Deadline: May 31, 2024
(NEW) Chicanx/Latinx Voices: Revisiting and Rewriting the Heartland
Forthcoming anthology from MN Historical Society Press, edited by Dr. Jessica Lopez Lyman and Vanessa Ramos.
Deadline: June 1, 2024
(NEW) Veliz Books
Call for manuscripts
Deadline: May 5, 2024
(NEW) Foglifter Journal
Deadline: May 1, 2024
(NEW) Breach
Nonfiction pitches
Deadline: Not Listed
YES! Magazine
Deadline: June 23
No, Dear Magazine
Deadline: Various
(NEW) Pushkin
Audio Producer, History
LA or NYC
Deadline: April 22, 2024
(NEW) Graywolf Press
Development and Events assistant
Deadline: April 26th, 2024
(NEW) Open Books
Part-time Book Coordinator
Chicago
(NEW) Chicken & Egg Pictures
Development Assistant
Brooklyn, NY
(NEW) Transit Books
Publishing Assistant
Berkeley
(NEW) I wanna be with you everywhere (IWBWYE)
Part-time Arts Administrator
Remote
Deadline: April 19, 2024
(NEW) Poet’s House
Library Director
NYC
(NEW) Columbia University
Director of GSAS Writing Studio
Deadline Date: May 3, 2024
(NEW) Milkweed
Editorial and Marketing Fellowship
Remote
Deadline: May 13, 2023
(NEW) Yale Peabody Museum
Interpretation Manager
New Haven, CT
(NEW) LaMaMa Performing Arts Program / Trinity College
Program Coordinator
NYC
(NEW) State Affairs
Deputy Editor
Miami
(NEW) Talking Feds Podcast
Associate Producer
Deadline: April 21, 2024
(NEW) Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Photographer/Content Coordinator (Seasonal)
Brooklyn
(NEW) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Sr. Coordinator, Education Initiatives; Exhibition Curator
LA
(NEW) Literary Arts
Senior Director of Development & Community Engagement
Development Coordinator
Development Manager
Portland, OR
Shaker Museum
Development Manager
Hudson Valley
FabScrap
P/t Sorter
P/t Reciever
Brooklyn & Philly
Connect Savannah
Executive Editor
Savannah, GA
Center for Brooklyn History
Manager of Education
Brooklyn
Batsheva
Part-time Sales Assistance
NYC
Submit your resume to careers@batsheva.com
Project for Public Space
Placemaking Project Associate
Brooklyn, NY
Center for Fiction
Development Assistant
Brooklyn
NYPL
Research Associate (Curriculum Development)
Various other positions
NYC
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Quantitative Researcher & Data Analyst
Durham, NC
The MTA
Assistant Project Manager, Special Archives
NYC
Wikimedia Foundation
Communications Manager
Remote
New York Botanical Garden
Associate Director of Digital Learning
Bronx
Small Press Traffic
Executive Director
Bay Area, Remote
Recess Art
Associate Director of Advancement
NYC
Columbia University School of the Arts
Lecturer in the Discipline of Writing
NPR
Multiple open roles
DC
Greenlight Books
Bookseller / Receiver
Brooklyn
Philosophical Research Society
Membership Manager
Bookstore Clerk
LA
P&T Knitwear
Bookseller/Podcast Studio Specialist
NYC
UBC School of Creative Writing
Lecturer in Writing for Video Games
We Testify
Development Manager
Remote
HubCity Books
Contract Poetry Editor
Remote
OFFERINGS
Mini Photo Sessions in Catskills / Delaware County
Book mini photo sessions with world class photographer, Kelsey Justice, anywhere in Delaware County April 21st and 22nd. You can book HERE. $200 for 30 minutes • 40+ final images
Creative Writing Workshops with Ariel Gore | Literary Kitchen
Summer and fall classes filling up with Ariel Gore at Literary Kitchen — act fast! Summer Experimental Memoir; August Personal Essay Intensive; Fall Manuscript Workshop; Winter Break Intensive
Dreamwork, oracle card readings & intuitive guidance | Naomi Sangreal
Books are open!
Once-Monthly Acting Class - All Skill Levels | Stamford, NY - TBD
A once-monthly acting class for adults at all skill levels, with Kristin McCalley. Through hands-on scene work, individual and group exercises, this class will teach newcomers the basics of acting or allow studied actors a safe and consistent space to further develop and practice their craft. The curriculum is designed to foster an environment where participants can explore, experiment and play. Participants will be asked to commit to class only on a month-to-month basis. Time/place TBD. If you’re interested in joining, fill out this form
NEW RELEASES
Laura’s Desires by Laura Henriksen (Nightboat)
Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Home by Alex Alberto (Quilted Press)
Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts by Claire Donato (Archway Editions)
Little Hidden Doors: A Guided Journal for Deep Dreamers by Naomi Sangreal (Sterling Ethos)