Deadline: 15 February 2025 The Ministry of Culture announces its Books, Letters, and Reading Grant Program for the year 2025. Books, through the experience of reading, in addition to the pursuit of pleasure and entertainment, enable the reader to delve deeper, searching for the meaning, … [Read more...] about Apply Now for Books, Letters, and Reading Grant Program 2025 (Greece)
Literature Bursary Award – English Language 2025 (Ireland)
Deadline: 13 February 2025 Nominations are open for the Arts Council’s Literature Bursary Award - English Language for the year 2025. Objective The objective of the English Language Literature Bursary Award is to enable professional writers and picture-book artists (working through the … [Read more...] about Literature Bursary Award – English Language 2025 (Ireland)
Apply for Irish Language Literature Bursary Award 2025 (Ireland)
Deadline: 13 February 2025 The Arts Council with its Irish Language Literature Bursary Award seeks to provide writers and picture-book artists with dedicated time and resources to think, research, reflect, create and write. Objective The objective of the Irish Language Literature … [Read more...] about Apply for Irish Language Literature Bursary Award 2025 (Ireland)
Call for Nominations: Zócalo Poetry Prize (US)
Deadline: 24 January 2025 Nominations are now open for the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize to recognize the U.S. writer of a poem that best evokes a connection to place. They are on the lookout for that rare combination of creativity and clarity, excellence and evocation. The prize … [Read more...] about Call for Nominations: Zócalo Poetry Prize (US)
“Time to Write” Creative Writing Competition for Schools (UK)
Deadline: 2 February 2025 The Independent Schools Examinations Board (ISEB) is pleased to announce the applications for the "Time to Write" creative writing competition for schools. Categories Writers in Years 3 and 4: 500 words Writers in Years 5 and 6: 650 words Writers in … [Read more...] about “Time to Write” Creative Writing Competition for Schools (UK)
Apply now for PEN America U.S. Writers Aid Initiative 2025 (US)
Deadline: 10 January 2025 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. PEN America’s U.S. Writers Aid Initiative, part of the PEN America Writers … [Read more...] about Apply now for PEN America U.S. Writers Aid Initiative 2025 (US)
Applications open for NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose (US)
Deadline: 12 March 2025 The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowships program offers grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career … [Read more...] about Applications open for NEA Literature Fellowships: Prose (US)
Artist Support Grant for Individuals (US)
Deadline: 15 January 2025 Applications are now open for Artist Support Grant for Individuals living in the Minnesota counties of Beltrami, Hubbard, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, or Mahnomen. The R2AC Artist Support Grant program, made available with funding from the McKnight Foundation, … [Read more...] about Artist Support Grant for Individuals (US)
Call for Applications: Create Grants Program (Australia)
Deadline: 3 March 2025 The Copyright Agency is pleased to announce applications for its Cultural Fund to support Australian creative writers and visual artists with grants to create new work. Categories Create Grants provide a living allowance for writers and visual artists at key … [Read more...] about Call for Applications: Create Grants Program (Australia)
Mophradat Emerging Creative Writers Program 2025
Deadline: 1 February 2025 The Mophradat is supporting emerging creative writers from the Arab world working in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Published writers currently working on a new text for publication and who need time to focus on its completion can apply to this … [Read more...] about Mophradat Emerging Creative Writers Program 2025
