The following resources are organized chronologically and include grants, fellowships, residencies, and other opportunities for artists with deadlines in September, October, November, and December. There are opportunities for visual artists, filmmakers, writers, poets, performers, curators, and more. The resources are arranged chronologically by their submission deadline.
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Last Updated: September 6, 2023
September
AiR Program of Siao-Long Cultural Park, Tainan, Taiwan - Siao-Long Cultural Park is located in the Jiali district, on the northern outskirts of Tainan city.Siao-Long aims to foster international exchange with artists from around the world and thereby create a vibrant community of artists, both local and international, emerging and established. Resident artists will be living in close proximity to local craftsmen artisans and they are encouraged to take the community and the vibrant local culture as inspiration for their artworks. Artists have access to wheelchair accessible, air-conditioned, modern studio spaces, as well as galleries and theatres for exhibitions, workshops and performances.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: September 7, 2023
MacDowell Residency - MacDowell facilitates a balance between focused work and interdisciplinary interaction, among composers, writers, architects, film and video artists, playwrights, interdisciplinary artists, and visual artists. A MacDowell Fellowship, or residency, consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for up to eight weeks. There are no residency fees.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: September 10, 2023
Hedgebrook Writers in Residence - Our Writers in Residence Program supports fully-funded residencies for selected women-identified writers at the retreat each year. Up to 6 writers can be in residence at a time, each housed in a handcrafted cottage. They spend their days in solitude – writing, reading, taking walks in the woods on the property or on nearby Double Bluff beach. In the evenings, “The Gathering” is a social time for residents to connect and share over their freshly prepared meals. Writers must be women, 18 and older, which is inclusive of transgender women and female-identified individuals.Our application and adjudication processes are genre-specific. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, TV/Screenwriters, Playwrights, and Songwriters are all encouraged to apply.
Application fee: $45
Deadline: September 11, 2023
Princeton Arts Fellowship - This fellowship is awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community. A $90,000 a year stipend is provided. The current application cycle is open to applicants in Writing, Theater, and Visual Arts.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: September 12, 2023
LMCC Creative Engagement - Creative Engagement is an arts funding program that provides seed grants to individual artists and nonprofit organizations for projects and activities that offer Manhattan communities diverse artistic experiences. Each year, the program supports over 150 arts projects in Manhattan, including concerts, performances, public art, exhibitions, screenings, festivals, workshops, readings and more. Through this grant program LMCC will award over $500,000 for projects serving communities from Inwood to the Battery taking place between January 1–December 31, 2024.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: September 12, 2023
Dorothy Project Open Reading Period - We are open to submissions for the first two weeks of September, every September. Submissions will open on September 1 and close on September 14. If you’re considering submitting work, the best way to get to know what we might be interested in is to read some of the work we’ve already published. We are currently reading for the Fall 2025 season.
Application fee: None
Deadline: September 14, 2023
Radcliffe Institute Fellowships - Fellowships of $78,000 each, office space at the Radcliffe Institute, and access to the libraries at Harvard University are given annually to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers to allow them to pursue creative projects. Fellows, who are expected to reside in Boston during the fellowship period, which lasts from September through May, also receive $5,000 to cover project expenses.
Application fee: None
Deadline: September 14, 2023
Artadia Awards - The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Application fee: Unknown
Boston Deadline: September 15, 2023
Atlanta Deadline: October 1, 2023
Houston Deadline: November 1, 2023
Fulbright Program - The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. College and university faculty, as well as artists and professionals from a wide range of fields can join over 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections, and greater mutual understanding.
Application fee: None
Deadline: September 15, 2023
Hambidge Residencies - The Hambidge Center is situated on 600 forested acres in the mountains of north Georgia and offers miles of nature trails, meadows, waterfalls, a swimming hole and an abundance of wildflowers. The oldest residency program in the Southeast, Hambidge provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent, whether it’s to work and produce, to think, to experiment or to rejuvenate. Residents’ time is their own; there are no workshops, critiques, nor required activities.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: September 15, 2023
Monson Arts Winter Residencies 2024 - This residency supports emerging and established artists and writers with 2-week and 4-week programs throughout the year. Each cohort of five visual artists and five writers are invited to immerse themselves in small town life at the edge of Maine’s North Woods and focus intensely on their work within a creative and inspiring environment. They receive a private studio, private bedroom in shared housing, all meals, and $1,000 stipend for 4-week programs or $500 for 2-week programs.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: September 15, 2023
Center for the Arts Evergreen’s (CAE’s) Artist-in-Residence Program - Center for the Arts Evergreen’s (CAE’s) Artist-in-Residence Program offers the opportunity for emerging and established artists to foster creativity and community engagement while developing both new works and works-in-progress. CAE welcomes artists working across disciplines and media, including visual artists, sculptors, musicians, writers, filmmakers, and more. All artist mediums are encouraged to apply. Residents will be provided housing, private studio space, and teaching and sales opportunities in Evergreen, Colorado, a vibrant community filled with the arts in the foothills of metro Denver. Twelve-week residencies are offered three times each year. As part of a residency, we ask each artist to develop and facilitate a community program related to their residency plan.
Application fee: $40
Deadline: September 15, 2023
Guggenheim Fellowships - Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. Fellowships are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. Approximately 175 Fellowships are awarded each year.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: September 21, 2023
Culture Push: Black Utopian Fellowship - Our Black Utopian Fellowship is a year-long Fellowship for Black artists, researchers, scientists and inventors, with career development and mentorship through a connection with Black-run institutions. The intent of the Black Utopian Fellowship is to share resources and support social engagement, educational programming, and revitalization of communal hubs. The Fellowship program is open to Black artists and other professionals working in any discipline who wish to expand the boundaries of their practice. For this year's cohort we ask our fellows to propose projects that highlight practices of pleasure. A feeling of enjoyment but when truly realized - one of the most poetic forms of resistance.
Application fee: None
Deadline: September 25, 2023
National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant - This grant provides funds for creation and U.S. touring of new, artist-led, ensemble, devised projects. These grants are awarded to ten projects annually, and ensembles must have nonprofit status.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline for preliminary application: September 27, 2023
Dry Tortugas National Park Artist in Residence Program - This one- month artist residency and $4,000 stipend is open to artists across all disciplines and takes place in a historic lighthouse keepers house on Loggerhead Key, an islet in the Florida Keys.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: September 29, 2023
EFA Project Space 2024-2025 Exhibitions Open Call - EFA is interested in exhibitions, community engagements, and public programming that celebrate personal narratives, memories, traditions, and ceremonies under the theme “Folklore”. The selected candidates will be awarded an honorarium, production budget, materials budget, programming and logistical support to organize a six-week-long exhibition at EFA Project Space.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: September 29, 2023
NYPL Cullman Center Fellowships - Fifteen fellowships are given annually to artists, academics, and creative writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the New York Public Library. The fellows each receive $85,000, an office at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library’s main branch in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, and full access to the library’s collections from September 2024 through May 2025.
Application fee: None
Deadline: September 29, 2023
True/False Film Fest Artist Residency Program - True/False is seeking original large-scale installations, projections, and performance works that have the flexibility to be modified to function in a variety of locations and unconventional venues within the theme “The Human Paradox.” Aimed at emerging and mid-career artists, this five-week virtual residency will culminate in an in-person exhibition of work at the 2024 True/False Film Festival.
Application fee: None
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction - A prize of $12,000 is given annually for a novel published during the current year that asks readers “to engage with or reflect on the complexities of the American South.” The winner will also receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Oxford, Mississippi, for the awards ceremony in April 2024.
Application fee: None
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture Open Call: Transitions & Migration - This residency provides an opportunity for artists, cultural workers, scientists, scholars and researchers to explore and engage with the multifaceted aspects of migration and transformation, encompassing not only human movement but also the interconnectedness of all living beings.
Application fee: Unkown
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Siena Art Institute Summer Residency - The Siena Art Institute’s Summer Residency Program awards accomplished professional artists & writers the opportunity to stay for a month in the beautiful historic city of Siena, in the heart of Tuscany, Italy. The month-long Summer Residency Program grants resident artists a studio space at the Siena Art Institute & a private 1-bedroom apartment in the historic city center of Siena, as well as flight compensation for getting to and from Italy. Summer Residents are granted uninterrupted time to pursue their own independent projects, as well as the opportunity to explore the area of Siena, and interact with the local community.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: September 30, 2023
October
Center for Contemporary Printmaking Residency Program - The Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP) Residency Program offers Artists-in-Residence the unique opportunity to live and work inside the recently remodeled Helen Frankenthaler Printmaking Cottage. Within this space artists can produce a body of work in a supportive atmosphere that fosters creative growth and development, for traditional as well as innovative printmaking techniques. The intention of the residency is to offer artists one to two weeks of uninterrupted, 24/7 time and privacy in a well-equipped studio with onsite living accommodations.
Application fee: $35
Deadline: October 1, 2023
2024 Eyebeam Fellowship Open Call - We are amid a global tech emergency; the act of discovery and creation by artists is more necessary than ever. In this digital-first fellowship cycle beginning February 15, 2024, through August 15, 2024, we call on artists to bring their innate mental, spiritual, and physical aspects of what it means to be human into play with technology to affirm humanity’s role as creators, not spectators, of our collective techno-future.We invite proposals considering how to avert anti-human technologies and re-assume control to build a more humane future.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 1, 2023
Millay Core Residency - Our historic fully-subsidized residency, includes a creative cohort of 6-7 other multidisciplinary creators, selected through our blind jury process. Includes private bedrooms and studios (with bedding/linens), shared living spaces, laundry room, workstation, B&W darkroom and use of our Alumni and Nancy Graves Memorial libraries. Groceries are also provided along with communal dinners (prepared by our in-house chef).
Application fee: $45
Deadline: October 1, 2023
South by Southwest FIlm Festival - SXSW provides the game-changing buzz every filmmaker dreams about for the premiere of their feature film, short, episodic or XR project. The SXSW Film Festival is the only place in the world bringing together creative people from so many different industries, making the SXSW Film Festival an unparalleled experience at the forefront of discovery, creativity, and innovation.
Application fee: Varies
Final Submission Deadline: October 3, 2023
Mophradat Grant for Artists’ Practice - In order to develop an art practice — an ongoing process of production based on conceptual and formal investigation — artists need time, stimulating input, access to technical skills, conversations with peers, and exchange with audiences. To facilitate these evolving processes, Mophradat is introducing this revised version of what was the Grants for Artists program to include two components: first, providing artists with flexible financial support that can be used towards their livelihood, and/or for ongoing research, and/or the realization of a particular proposal. Second, connecting the participating artists with their peers (of the selection committee) with whom they will engage in a structured dialogue over three sessions throughout the grant period.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: October 1, 2023
Monument Lab Re:Generation Initiative - Monument Lab’s Re:Generation supports teams of two or more individuals working together to create a new or expand an existing public-facing project. Each selected Re:Generation team will receive a total of $100,000 in unrestricted funding towards their commemorative campaign or project.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: October 2, 2023
Penland Core Fellowship Program - The Penland Core Fellowship Program is a two-year work-study fellowship for early career artists looking to expand technical skills and material fluency while working to support the day-to-day operations of a craft school. Artists of all backgrounds who want to advance their educational goals and explore their capacity to contribute to a thriving creative community are encouraged to apply. The goal of the program is to shape the future of contemporary craft by creating opportunity, connection, and immersive education for early career artists who bring a range of perspectives and goals to the school.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: October 12, 2023
Art Omi Residencies - Art Omi: Architecture, Art Omi: Artists, and Art Omi: Writers are currently open for applications. Through a competitive jury process, residents are invited to attend at no cost to themselves except travel. Abundant, catered meals and comfortable, beautiful lodgings are provided in a scenic location in Columbia County, New York.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: October 15, 2023
Allan Bérubé Prize - The Allan Bérubé Prize recognizes outstanding work in public or community-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history completed in 2022 or 2023. Activists, students, faculty, authors, readers, editors, or publishers can nominate. Self- nominations are encouraged. Submission materials (documents, web links, photographs, etc.) are open and should reflect the full scope of the project.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: October 15, 2023
Loewe Foundation Craft Prize - The seventh edition of the international award celebrating excellence in craftsmanship, The Loewe Foundation seeks to recognize uniquely talented artisans whose artistic vision and will to innovate set new standards for the future of craft. The prize for the winning entry is 50,000 euros. The shortlisted and winning works will be featured in an exhibition and accompanying catalogue in Paris in spring 2024.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: October 25, 2023
Tribeca Film Festival - The Tribeca Film Festival is a prominent film festival held in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, showcasing a diverse selection of independent films. Since its inaugural year in 2002, it has become a recognized outlet for independent filmmakers in all genres to release their work to a broad audience.
Application fee: Varies
Early Deadline: October 26, 2023
Queens Museum Open Call: QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists - This fellowship will grant two visual artists $20,000 each, individual studio space, professional development consultations, and close mentorship from Museum staff members working toward the artists’ projects. Fellows will have individual studio space from January 2024 through January 2025, as well as a solo-exhibition in 2025.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: October 29, 2023
Moab Arts Reuse Residency - The Moab Arts Reuse Residency (MARR) program's mission is to challenge the perception of waste culture by providing a unique platform for artists at the intersection of art, community, and waste systems. The Moab area is highly impacted by the tourism industry, and, as a result, waste management. By facilitating artists' direct engagement with the waste stream, MARR encourages resident artists to consider their studio practice through the lens of sustainability and to thoughtfully re-assess their processes of material sourcing and waste disposal. Through a 4-week residency, the program offers artists studio space, project and community facilitation, a stipend, and access to materials at local waste disposal and recycling sites. As a component of each residency, artists spend time providing opportunities for learning, dialogue, and enrichment within the community.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: October 30, 2023
Artists Magazine Over 60 Competition - The Artists Magazine Over 60 Art Competition honors work from outstanding artists of every level. Enter to win cash prizes and publication in a special issue of Artists Magazine.
Application fee: $40
Deadline: October 31, 2023
apexart Open Call - apexart's Open Calls are opportunities for artists, curators, and other professionals to turn their curatorial idea into an apexart exhibition, combined with inviting apexart’s international community to collectively determine our programming through an online jury process. Winning proposals become part of apexart’s next exhibition season and receive funding and staff support. apexart is not a granting organization-all exhibitions are part of apexart’s programming. Every October we accept proposals for exhibitions in our NYC space.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 31, 2023
November
Rome Prize - Half-term and full-term fellowships of $16,000 and $30,000 respectively will be given annually to artists, academics, and creative writers, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, to support the development of a project. In addition to their stipend, the fellows will each be provided with meals, a private workspace, a bedroom with a private bathroom, and the opportunity to form part of the Academy’s residential community on the Janiculum Hill in Rome alongside other affiliated fellows and visiting artists and scholars. All applicants, except those applying for the National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowships, must be United States citizens at the time of their application.
Application fee: $40
Deadline: November 1, 2023
Cave Canem Foundation Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize - A prize of $1,000, publication by O, Miami Books, and 10 author copies is given annually for a poetry chapbook by a Black poet. The winner will also receive a residency in the Writer’s Room at the Betsy Hotel in Miami and give a featured reading at the O, Miami Poetry Festival in April 2024. Tara Betts will judge.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 5, 2023
Nightboat Poetry Prize - Any poet writing in English, including international Anglophone writers. Previous book publication is not a consideration for eligibility. Poems published in print or on-line periodicals, anthologies, or chapbooks may be included, but the manuscript itself must be unpublished. Original work only; translations are not ineligible for the prize.
Application fee: $28
Deadline: November 15, 2023
Yale Series of Younger Poets - A prize of $1,000, publication by Yale University Press, and a writing fellowship at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut, is given annually for a poetry collection by a poet who has not published a full-length book of poetry and who resides in the United States.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: November 15, 2023
December
PlySpace Residency Program - PlySpace is an immersive Artist-in-Residence program of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council, based in the Emily Kimbrough Historic District in downtown Muncie, Indiana.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: December 31, 2023