Extra! Extra! (May)
Vol. 3; Issue 4.5
It’s mid-May at The Whole Utopianotes Catalog! Everyone into the underground spring of grants, fellowships, fully-funded writer & artist residencies, submissions calls, open reading periods, jobs, reverse osmosis, rare minerals, gravity-fed basins & more. There is something here for you. There is more than enough for everyone.
The Whole Utopianotes Catalog is published by the author Adrian Shirk.
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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