Opportunities for Creatives
Prizes, fellowships and open calls for writers and artists, shared in August 2024.
Climate And Labour Film Grant
Deadline: 1st September 2024
Auda-Nepad competition
Deadline: August 30, 2024
Auda-Nepad competition! Call for African’s TEVETS champions (All-Expenses-Paid-Trip to Africa Skills Week 2024 in Accra Ghana)
Deutsche Welle (DW) Multimedia Journalists Programme.
Deadline: August 5, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2024 Deutsche Welle (DW) Multimedia Journalists Programme.
iF SOCIAL IMPACT PRIZE
Deadline: September 13, 2024
The iF SOCIAL IMPACT PRIZE (100,000 in Prize Money)
2025/2026 Getty Foundation Scholar Grants
Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Applications are now open for the 2025/2026 Getty Foundation Scholar Grants. Getty invites scholars and arts professionals to apply for the 2025/2026 Getty Foundation Scholar Grants
Call for submissions
Deadline: 31 December 2024
Palette Poetry Rolling Submissions
Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund
Deadline: 12th September 2024
The 2024 Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund for Sub-Saharan Researches (20,000 Euros in Grant)
Yali Mandela Washington Fellowship Program 2025
Deadline: 31 August 2024
Call for Readers for the Yali Mandela Washington Fellowship Program 2025
Young English Cameroonian Writers Award
Deadline: 27 August 2024
WSA Cameroon: Young English Cameroonian Writers Award
RSL V.S Pritchett Short Story Prize
Deadline: 13 September 2024
BIM: Arts for the 21st Century – Volume 12
Deadline: 31 October 2024
BIM: Arts for the 21st Century – Volume 12
The 2024 African Studies Centre Leiden Africa Thesis Award for Afro-Centric Maters Thesis
Deadline: 31 August 2024
Curators International (ICI) Mentorship Program
Deadline: August 15, 2024
ICI, in partnership with Njabala Foundation and AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions,is offering a 6-month mentorship program for emerging female-identifying curators.
The Caribbean Writer
Deadline: 31 December 2024
The Caribbean Writer: Possibilities – Beyond Traditional, Inside of Courage.
2025-2026 Cullman Center Fellowship
Deadline: 27 September 2024
Writers, journalists and visual artists can apply for the 2025-2026 Cullman Center Fellowship. $85,000 stipend, access to an office with a computer and full access to the library’s physical and electronic resources.
The LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency II
Deadline: 18 August 2024
African writers are welcome to apply for the LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency II. $500 stipend, travel cost worth up to $600, access to the library’s resources, an accommodation and participant must be 21 years above with a valid passport.
The 2024 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award.
Deadline: 9 August 2024
the 2024 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award. The annual competition is organized in partnership with the UK’s Foreign Press Association (FPA).