Artists Survey CERF+ is conducting a survey to find out what studio safety issues are most pressing to artists so that they can develop new videos and resources to add to their existing studio safety materials.
Call for Film, Video The Holly Weird Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA, provides a venue for narrative, documentary, experimental and avant-garde film and video, and is open to independent film of all genres that feature a distinct vision, a unique voice or an avant-garde challenge. Learn more.
Deadline: July 31, 2019
Writer Fellowship The Submerging Writer Fellowship (SWF) from Fear No Lit will offer one writer chapbook publication, prize money, and more. Dedicated to the writers who feel left behind, down on their luck, and far from emerging, the SWF is here to pull one submerging writer out of the water. Learn more.
Deadline: July 31, 2019
Fiction Writers Novella entries are currently being accepted for a prize of $1,000 and publication by Red Hen Press The juror is Doug Lawson. Submit a manuscript of 15,000 to 30,000 words. Learn more.
Deadline: July 31, 2019
Poets, Short Story Writers The Sewanee Review is currently accepting entries for two prizes of $1,000 each and publication for a group of poems and a short story. Carl Phillips will judge in poetry and Roxane Gay will judge in fiction. Learn more.
Deadline: July 31, 2019
Call to Artists 100 Market Gallery in Portsmouth, NH, announces a call for artists. 100 Market Gallery is a commission-free gallery devoted to expanding the public’s awareness of the high caliber of artists and art that reside and thrive within New England. Artists are asked to submit pieces that embody what summertime means to them. All mediums welcome. 100 Market’s fall exhibition runs from September 13 to December 6. Learn more.
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Artist’s Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Fund Fund Grants available in painting, sculpture, printmaking or mixed media to mid-career artists with financial need. Nonprofit organizations wishing to show, commission or purchase work by mature artists living in New England may also apply. Grants range up to $10,000. Applications and artwork must be submitted online. Learn more.
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Composer Award Applications are currently being accepted for the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Composer Award. The awardee will be granted $20,000 to write a new orchestral work to be premiered by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra in Maine during the 2020-2021 season. The inaugural jury is comprised of celebrated composers Nico Muhly and Gabriela Lena Frank, and Grammy Award-winning conductor David Alan Miller. Learn more.
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Call to Western Massachusetts Artists, Poets Entries are currently being accepted to the 2019 Western Massachusetts Visual Arts Biennial, From Seed to Fruition. Open to artists and poets in Western MA. Artists are asked submit two and three-dimensional art in any style, as well as video and performance art to interpret the theme “from seed to fruition”. Jurors include Donna Gates, Salmon Falls Gallery; Jameson Johnson, The Boston Art Review; Robert Wiesenburger, The Clark, Nellie Prior, the Departure Reading Series; Karen Skolfield, poet laureate of Northampton; and Catherine Weiss, Northampton Poetry. Learn more.
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Arcadia Folk Festival Call for Vendors The Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary in Easthampton is seeking vendors with an environmentally friendly twist or nature inspired artwork for the 2nd annual Arcadia Folk Festival on Saturday, September 28, 10am-6:30pm. Handmade, earth friendly, crafts and art. Outdoor rain or shine. TO APPLY: email makersmarket@signaturesounds.com your website and photo of your booth. $120 booth fee includes two festival tickets. Questions, contact Tiffany Hilton.
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Fiction Award The Louisville Literary Arts 6th annual Writer’s Block Prize will be awarded in Fiction. The author, Garth Greenwell is the judge. Learn more.
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Photographers The Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, NJ, is currently accepting entries for their juried photography exhibition. This exhibition features work representing the breadth and the diversity of expression in contemporary photography, and includes a variety of photographic media, from traditional black and white images to color photographs, digital prints and alternative processes. Learn more.
Deadline: August 5, 2019
Porter Square Books Writers in Residence Program In order to make the resources needed to write books more available to the writers and aspiring writers in our community, Porter Square Books will select two writers, one writing for adults and one writing for young readers, to be our Writers in Residence. Learn more.
Deadline: August 31, 2019
Image credit: Freezo ice cream sign, Knoxville, Tennessee, by John Margolies. From the collection of the Library of Congress.
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