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«(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