Extra! Extra! (June)
Vol. 3; Issue 5.5
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
