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Emerging Writers Award

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:26:44 +0000

Foundation for Jewish Culture

Supported through a generous grant from the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers highlights new works by contemporary writers exploring Jewish themes.

The prize is awarded to an American fiction writer for a first or second full-length work that was published in the previous calendar year. Submissions must be made by the publisher.

The award includes a prize of $2,500,and a one-week residency at Ledig House International Writers Colony in New York’s Hudson Valley.

The application deadline is March 1, 2010

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Fellowships for Artists

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:10:55 +0000

There are lots of artist fellowship programs offered across the United States, generally by arts councils. The North Dakota Council on the Arts offers artist fellowships up to $2,500 each year. The 2010 fellowships are offered for Music and Literature (the disciplines change each year).

The Individual Fellowship Program was established to recognize practicing artists residing in North Dakota with a monetary fellowship award. This program is designed to support professional artists with outstanding talent and ability to improve their artistic skills and enhance their career opportunities.

An applicant will be considered “professional” if they are pursuing their original artwork on an ongoing basis within an artistic discipline, and if they are pursuing it as a means of livelihood, either on a partial or total basis.

The application deadline is February 15.

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Grants for Artists

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:08:42 +0000

A Strategic Opportunity Stipend (SOS) of up to $600 is available to Long Island artists and musicians living in Nassau and Suffolk counties. The grant is designed to help individual artists of all disciplines take advantage of unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their work or career development.

Artists of all disciplines, including visual artists, musicians, performers, and authors, may apply for awards ranging from $100 to $600 for opportunities occurring between March 1 – June 30, 2010. The deadline for the next grant cycle is January 27, 2010.
Examples of work the SOS Grants support include:

Travel and accommodations associated with an imminent, concrete opportunity such as a reading, audition, artist’s own exhibition, or workshop;
Materials to make or finish work that is integral to a specific, unique opportunity;
Exceptional chance for advanced study with a significant mentor (outside of a classroom setting and not related to any degree program);
Professional fees and services for a specific opportunity such as lighting, graphic design or carpentry;
Expenses related to care of dependents that would allow an artist to take advantage of a specific opportunity ;
Rental of equipment, instruments, or materials to complete work scheduled for a gallery exhibition, performance, publication, etc.;
Purchase of inexpensive or one-time-use items associated with, and necessary for, an opportunity;
Promotional expenses related directly to a specific opportunity.

Application is open to those who reside full time within Nassau or Suffolk counties, are 18 years of age or older, and are not currently enrolled in a degree program.

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Playwriting Grants

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:20:10 +0000

The VSA arts Playwright Discovery Program invites middle and high school students to take a closer look at the world around them, examine how disability affects their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of playwriting.

Playwrights may write from their own experience or about an experience in the life of another person or fictional character. Scripts can be comedies, dramas, or even musicals—be creative! Young playwrights with and without disabilities are encouraged to submit a script. Entries may be the work of an individual student or a collaboration by a group or class of students.

The winning play will be professionally produced or staged at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The winning playwright receives $2,000 and a trip to Washington, D.C., to see his or her play performed.

The submission deadline is April 15, 2010.

Go to guidelines and application

Screenwriting Grants

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:19:41 +0000

The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, antidiscrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time.

The grants, which run 2009–2013, will be awarded in the spring and fall of each year. The total amount disbursed over these five years will be over $3 million, including a total of $190,000 for Spring 2010 and a total of $225,000 for Fall 2010. The letter of inquiry period for the third SFFS/KRF grant, to be announced, for screenwriting, script development, preproduction, production and postproduction, opens January 6, 2010; the deadline is February 5, 2010.

Go to the guidelines and application

Crazyhorse Fiction Prize

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:52:44 +0000

Crazyhorse offers the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for a single short story and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize for a single poem. The competition is open, the prize awards are currently $2000 for each genre, and the winning poem and piece of prose are published in Crazyhorse.

To enter:

Upload or mail in a manuscript of up to twenty-five pages of fiction or up to three poems (up to 10 pages of poetry).

More than one manuscript may be entered. For each manuscript entered, please include the following reading fee, which includes a one-year/two-issue subscription to Crazyhorse: $16 per manuscript for new entrants, $14 per manuscript if you have entered the Crazyhorse prizes before. For each additional fiction or poetry manuscript entered and entry fee paid, your subscription to Crazyhorse will extend by one year/two issues.

Go to Crazyhorse to review the guidelines and enter

National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Writers

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:32:17 +0000

The National Endowment for the Arts offers fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) or poetry to published creative writers. Fellowships enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.

This program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose available in FY 2010 and fellowships in poetry available in FY 2011. Individuals may apply only once each year.

The next deadline is March 4, 2010.

Go to the National Endowment for the Arts