Don't Know What To Apply For As A Writer? Here's Your Summer 2023 List!
Residencies, calls for pitches, fellowships and more.
Welcome to another MWL update! It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these lists, but it’s always good to check in with yourself as a new season starts and reassess your creative and writing goals! So here’s a list of opportunities for you to check out.
Calls for Pitches
Narrative Initiative
"Looking for deep dives into organizing efforts or arts/cultural initiatives, interviews, and essays, including photo essay.” They want pitches on “Care is the Antidote to Violence, Surviving Supremacy, Democracy tbd”.
The Public Square
“Academics who want to try writing for a public audience—I’m looking to get some pieces into my summer pipeline at @ThePublicSquare! Pitch me a 1200-word piece about how an aspect of your research shines a light on a contemporary question: caroline@zocalopublicsquare.org”
TimeOut New York
“Trend pieces, NYC centric features covering arts, lifestyle, theater, food and drink and more. Depending on effort can pay up to $500 a piece”
Food and Wine
“We are looking for pitches. 1st person (sale) roundups / 1st person reviews, preferred. List of formats below & email (dmodlin@dotdashmdp.com) in bio.”
The Dial
“The Dial is a new online magazine of culture, politics, and ideas with a focus on locally sourced writing from around the world. We welcome pitches for original reporting, pieces of criticism, and works of literature or translation. Most of our features will run about 2,000 words.”
Opportunities, Grants, and Workshops
Authors Publish
“Authors Publish is seeking a creative nonfiction instructor to teach courses for The Writers’ Workshop at Authors Publish…. As an instructor, you will be expected to create your course material. This requires a high level of expertise in the area you are teaching. You will retain rights to the course materials.” | Pay is $5k for four weeks.
Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship
“The Yamamoto Fellowship recognizes that writers of color have knowledge and experiences that differ from dominant Eurocentric ones, and that their perspectives can give art produced by marginalized communities the depth of attention and consideration it deserves. The Yamamoto Fellowship encourages arts writers of color to continue writing about art from their own cultural and political perspectives in order to enrich and broaden arts writing as a practice and profession. By supporting and highlighting these voices, the fellowship seeks to broaden public discourse around art and strengthen its ties to diverse communities. | Due May 7, 2023
MIT Emerging Journalist Fellowship
“This fellowship is an intense and rigorous training for early-career journalists. You’ll spend at least half of your time searching for story ideas, pitching to your editor, reporting out your ideas, and writing and revising drafts. You’ll aim to publish three stories a month, some of which you will have pitched and others that your editor assigns to you.
We’ll work with you to find a beat that you’re excited about or encourage you to try out a few different beats if you’re not sure. Our core beats include artificial intelligence, climate change, computing, cybersecurity, biotechnology, and tech policy. You may choose to cover one of these or another area that aligns more with your interests.” | Due by May 15, 2023
Isaac Rauch Fellowship
“We are providing a stipend of $10,000 to the incoming Isaac Rauch Fellow to support their project proposal. Stories can be an accountability-based series, a magazine-level feature story, or even a short documentary on topics including housing, culture, immigration policy issues, public safety, and more. The only requirement is the idea must be fresh and uncover new information. We are not looking for deep dives into topics that have been widely covered.” | Due May 19, 2023
Emergency Grants for Coverage of Threats to Democracy in the U.S.
“Journalists can apply for grants of up to $10,000 to cover the expenses of investigations… The Fund will hold a webinar on how to apply for these grants on June 1 at 11:30 a.m. eastern. Click here to register.” | Due by January 1, 2024
Ploughshares Emerging Writer Contest
“We award publication, $2,000, review from Aevitas Creative Management, and a 1-year subscription for one winner in each of the three genres. Submit to the Emerging Writer's Contest through our submission manager. You must be logged in to access our submission manager.” | Due May 15, 2023
GRIST Short Story Contest
“Submissions for our 2023/2024 contest are now open. We’re looking for stories of 3,000 to 5,000 words that envision the next 180 years of climate progress — roughly seven generations – imagining intersectional worlds of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope. “ | Due June 13, 2023
Residencies
The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
“This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2 - 5 week stay at Oak Spring. While at OSGF, the Fellow will be able to meet with staff, explore our 700-acre landscape and our efforts in sustainable land management, and visit our rare book library that holds over 19,000 objects, including many examples of botanical art.” | Due May 31, 2023
Jentel Artist Residency
“The Jentel Artist Residency Program offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment in which to further their creative development. Here artists and writers experience unfettered time to allow for thoughtful reflection and meditation on the creative process in a setting that preserves the agricultural and historical integrity of the land.“ | Due September 15, 2023
Joshua Tree Artists in Residency Program
“Artists in residence are housed at Black Rock in the northwest corner of the park. This area has a ranger station, a campground and access to many beautiful trails. Sitting at the base of the San Bernardino mountain range, its higher altitude makes this area one of the best for Joshua Trees and somewhat cooler than other parts of the park. Although conditions at this location are often relatively temperate, artists should be prepared for more extreme conditions during the course of their stay, including high winds, low relative humidity and temperatures that can range from 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the day to as low as 30 degrees at night.| | Due May 31