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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

BetUS Sports Writing Contest for $5,000

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:12:21 +0000

If you love sports and think you would be a great sportswriter, then BetUS.com has the contest for you. They want you to send them your best football piece and you can win a guest spot on BetUS.com Radio, get published online, and even win a $5,000 sports writing contract!

Here’s their breakdown of the contest:

Each month of the regular NFL season, three weekly winners will receive a $100 Free Play in their BetUS account and get published in our Locker Room. At the end of each month, a monthly winner will receive a $250 Free Play in their BetUS account, get published in the Locker Room and receive an invitation to FACE-OFF against our handicapping experts on BetUS.com Radio! At the end of the regular NFL season, the best writer to have contributed a minimum of five football pieces will win the $5,000 Sports Writing Contract!

Go to their website for more information