THE CLEYVIS NATERA SCHOLARSHIP
Northern California Writers’ Retreat
DEADLINE: October 2, 2026
INFO: Thanks to the generosity of our 2026 Author-in-Residence, Cleyvis Natera, award-winning author of Neruda on the Park and The Grand Paloma Resort, we are proud to offer The Cleyvis Natera Scholarship for BIPOC Mothers to one female-identifying fiction writer to one session of our 2027 retreats.
SCHOLARSHIP: All retreat fees covered ($2,997) plus $500 in travel expenses, for a total of $3,497 in aid.
GOAL OF SCHOLARSHIP: To support and foster the creative life of one BIPOC female-identifying writer and parent of an underaged child or children who would be unable to attend the retreat without aid. We believe writers who want to learn more about the publishing industry, connect with other writers, and improve their craft, should have the ability to do so, despite their financial situation. This scholarship will make attendance possible to one writer, and offers a $500 stipend to offset travel expenses.
WHAT IS THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WRITERS’ RETREAT?
17 other writers, 2 Guest Literary Agents, 1 Author-in-Residence, 1 Independent Editor, and YOU.
Join us in Northern California among oak trees and poppies to workshop with fellow writers led by our Editor or one of our Guest Literary Agents. Take part in daily conversations about publishing from the perspective of professionals who will give insights into the industry. Enjoy free time and space to write. Participate in a daily yoga practice and/or write to live piano music.
Northern California Writers’ Retreat brings writers together to create a community of individuals who love to write, read, and support each other–if that’s you, please apply!
ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
The scholarship will be awarded to the writer whose work we feel shows the greatest potential and promise; all genres are encouraged.
There will be one winner and two runners up–the runners up will be offered acceptance into any session of the retreat they choose, though they will not recieve the scholarship. We have additional financial aid available!
TIMELINE:
Response for scholarship: November 3rd, 2026
If you do not receive the scholarship, you may be accepted into the retreat, though application to the scholarship does not guarantee a space at the retreat. If you would like to keep your application on file to be considered for the retreat, you may do so without reapplying–we will be in touch with you after November 3rd to find out your preference. As stated above, we have additional financial aid beyond this scholarship, because of the ongoing generosity of our alumni!
Final decision for retreat acceptance: December 2nd, 2026
norcalwritersretreat.com/scholarship/
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2027 FELLOWSHIP
Amplify Arts |📍Omaha, NE
DEADLINE: October 4, 2026
INFO: Amplify’s Fellowship program champions artists working outside conventional art spaces to investigate the layered civic histories, cultural traditions, and living ecologies that shape our region. Designed to support site-responsive installations, book and publishing projects, films, performances, and other publicly engaged project-based work, the Fellowship provides $10,000 in project support, individualized project mentorship, and feedback in a small cohort-based learning environment.
For the 2027 Fellowship, preference will be given to projects that engage with the theme of Migration by exploring how movement shapes our communities, environments, and collective futures. We welcome project-based work that examines migration not only as the movement of people, but also as the circulation of ideas, languages, labor, waterways, seeds, species, capital, and culture.
We especially encourage projects that invite public participation or engagement. This may take the form of site-responsive installations, performances, workshops, or other shared experiences, as well as the circulation of books, printed matter, films, digital media, archives, or other forms of knowledge. We value projects that create opportunities for people to encounter, contribute to, or engage with ideas in ways that foster dialogue, learning, and reflection outside conventional art spaces.
FELLOWSHIP: The Fellowship is one year beginning in January of 2027 and ending in January of 2028. Fellows are expected to actively participate in all regularly scheduled cohort meetings and contribute to a culture of generosity, curiosity, and shared learning. Prospective applicants should approach this program willing to expand their practice with curiosity and critical feedback from other Fellows and mentors.
Fellows will be paired with mentors from outside the Omaha area early in the program in a matchmaking process that responds to each artist’s questions, methods, and ambitions. Mentors will be selected from a pool of curators, artists, and arts professionals with substantial experience in developing project-based work.
ELIGIBILITY: Any artist, artist collective, or collaborative group maintaining a residence within the Omaha/Council Bluffs Metro Area, including Washington, Douglas, Cass, Sarpy, and Saunders counties in Nebraska, and Pottawattamie, Mills, and Harrison counties in Iowa, is eligible to apply.
Applicants must be at least 19 years old and submit a complete application, including an Artist Statement, Project Description, Project Budget, Work Sample, and Works Cited page to be considered. A formal education is not required to apply.
Collectives and collaborative groups with a significant history of working together are also eligible.
TIMELINE:
September 8, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Virtual Application Information Session
September 15, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Virtual Application Office Hours
September 17, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Virtual Application Office Hours
October 4, 11:59 pm: Application Closes
October 5 - October 18: Application Review
October 19 - October 23: Applicant Interviews
October 30: Application Status Updates Delivered
amplifyarts.org/events-blog/2027-fellowship
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MESA REFUGE 2027 RESIDENCY
Mesa Refuge |📍Point Reyes Station, CA
DEADLINE: October 4, 2026 at 11:59pm PST
APPLICATION FEE: $35
INFO: Mesa Refuge brings transformative stories, ideas, and knowledge to the world by supporting a diverse community of writers and activists through residencies at our coastal California retreat. We welcome a diverse group of writers—both emerging and established—who define and/or offer solutions to the pressing issues of our time. Particularly, it is our priority to support writers and activists whose ideas are “on the edge”, taking on issues including (but not limited to): nature, environment and climate crisis; economic, racial and gender equity; social justice, incarceration and restorative justice; immigration; health care access; housing; democracy and more.
We accept all genres, however, we prioritize nonfiction books, long-form journalism, documentary film and podcasts. The potential impact and distribution of your project is also important.
We aim to support a diverse community of writers and welcome applicants that represent a broad spectrum of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, immigration status, religion or physical ability. We prioritize applications of first time residents. If you are a Mesa Refuge alum, please inquire about Alum Weeks.
APPLICATION: We are a small nonprofit and our application fee of $35 helps underwrite the cost of application review. As an organization committed to equity, however, we do not want the application fee to be a barrier to apply. To request a fee waiver, please email nkansky@mesarefuge.org
The questions on our application are mostly short-answer. We require one writing sample (no longer than 2,000 words or 10 pages), a current resume, headshot photo (horizontally oriented), brief bio and two references (we do not require letters of recommendation). Applicants will be contacted in early 2027.
Please consult our FAQ page to learn more about applications and our facility.
LOGISTICS: Mesa Refuge is located in Point Reyes Station, CA (about 1.5 hours north of San Francisco). Our residencies are two-weeks long and there is no residency fee. Three writers are in residence at a time, living together in a house that has both private and shared spaces. You will need to provide your own transportation to and from the residency and most meals. Additional residency expenses like travel, transportation and food, are your responsibility.
mesarefuge.submittable.com/submit
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2027 RESIDENCY SEASON
Djerassi Resident Artist Program
DEADLINE: October 9, 2026
INFO: The Djerassi Resident Artist Program has awarded over 2700+ writers, visual/media artists, composers, choreographers, filmmakers and scientists for the past 43-years the gift of time and space with a one-month residency on our 583-acre ranch in Northern California's Santa Cruz Mountains. All at no cost to the artists.
Applications for Djerassi’s 2027 Residency Season are now open. We anticipate being able to accommodate around 40-45 new artists for the 2027 application period.
Our 4—5 week residency dates are as follows:
Cohort 1: February 16-March 16, 2027
Cohort 2: March 30-April 27, 2027
Cohort 3 // Leonardo@Djerassi: June 22-July 27, 2027
Cohort 4: August 17-September 14, 2027
Cohort 5: October 19-November 16, 2027.
Residencies are awarded competitively, at no cost, to national and international artists and scientists in the disciplines of choreography, literature, film, music composition, visual arts, media arts, and science and technology. Those selected are offered living and studio space for one of the five sessions from mid-February through mid-November.
We welcome applications from emerging, mid-career, and established national and international artists.
Choreography
Film
Literature [all disciplines of writing]
Media Arts
Music Composition
Science & Technology
Visual Arts
djerassi.org/apply/2027residency/
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call for SUBMISSIONS: personal narrative
Electric Literature
DEADLINE: October 11, 2026
INFO: Electric Lit is seeking submissions of personal essays.
Submissions must be full drafts of personal essays submitted via Submittable
While there are no restrictions on form or subject matter, submissions should center narrative and consider what it means to essay; in other words, write to interrogate, investigate, adventure, and introspect
Submissions must be between 2,000 and 6,500 words in length
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if a submission is accepted elsewhere
Previously published work will not be considered
Response time is approximately six to eight months
Writers may submit once per submission period, but writers can have active submissions across other EL categories. (This does not apply to year-round submitting members. For more information on member submissions, please refer to the welcome email you received when you signed up as member, or email wynter@electricliterature.com.)
Upon acceptance, we can offer authors $100 for publishing rights, with 90-day exclusivity
For more information on what we’re looking for, please watch our salon on EL’s General Nonfiction Program
electricliterature.submittable.com/submit
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2027 Periplus Fellowship
Periplus Collective
DEADLINE: October 11, 2026 at 11:59 pm ET
INFO: Periplus is a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color. We’re happy you’ve found us. We’re looking for mentees—Periplus Fellows—who are located in the United States, and are at least 18 years old, and whose writing shows great promise. We are seeking to mentor writers who are relatively early in their careers and would especially like to award fellowships to those with limited past access to writing resources and supportive communities. We aim to equalize access so that writers can achieve their goals regardless of their background and affiliations.
In assessing your application, we’ll be most focused on the promise we see in your writing sample. We will also consider how helpful a Periplus Fellowship could be for your craft and career.
ELIGIBILITY: You are NOT ELIGIBLE for a Periplus Fellowship if you are currently enrolled in any degree-granting programs — including high school, college, and other graduate programs. You are also NOT ELIGIBLE if you have published a book or have one under contract with a major U.S. press (this includes any imprints, publishers, or presses with significant editorial, marketing, and/or distribution resources).
To learn more about Periplus, read the FAQ here: bit.ly/periplusfaq. Any questions can be sent to peripluscollective@gmail.com.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMBOQCEQkI4rX6bUeuCtZC8VlLNyd-MTvQQIc2QHa3hU8AbQ/viewform
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The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship
One Story
DEADLINE: October 13, 2026, at 11:59pm ET.
INFO: Each year, together with the Talve-Goodman Family, One Story awards one writer the Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship. Honoring the memory of author and former One Story Managing Editor Adina Talve-Goodman, this educational fellowship offers a year-long mentorship on the craft of fiction writing with One Story magazine. Our hope is to give a writer outside of the fold a significant boost in their career.
THE FELLOW RECEIVES:
Access to One Story online classes.
Admission to One Story’s Writing Circle.
Stipend ($2,000) and free admission to One Story’s week-long summer writers’ conference, which includes craft lectures, an intensive fiction workshop, and panels with literary agents and publishers.
A full manuscript review and consultation with One Story Executive Editor Hannah Tinti (story collection or novel in progress up to 150 pages/35,000 words).
REQUIREMENTS: This fellowship calls for an early-career writer of fiction who has not yet published a book and is not currently nor has ever been enrolled in an advanced degree program (such as an MA or MFA) in Creative Writing, English, or Literature, and has no plans to attend one in the 2027 calendar year. We are seeking writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. This means writing that centers, celebrates, or reclaims being marginalized through the lens of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, class, religion, illness, disability, trauma, migration, displacement, dispossession, or imprisonment. All applicants must be at least 21 years of age as of January 1st, 2027. For complete eligibility details, please visit the FAQ at the bottom of this page.
APPLICATION CHECKLIST:
To apply to this fellowship you will need:
A fiction writing sample (3,000–5,000 words) that best represents your writing and speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference (as defined above). Multiple short stories are permitted if they are under 5,000 words combined and submitted as a single file.
A personal statement (400–750 words)
A statement of purpose (200–350 words)
Two professional or personal references who can speak to your commitment to writing (no recommendation letters required but please provide: name, email, phone)
A current resume detailing any work or educational experience. Please also list any writing classes you have taken, along with writing-related awards, fellowships, publications, and residencies (if any).
All applications will be received via Subfolio. There is NO FEE to apply to this fellowship. Additional guidelines can be found on the Subfolio application.
The winner of the 2027 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship will be publicly announced in January 2027.
one-story.com/learn/fellowship/
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Call for black romance authors
Cowrie Crossings
DEADLINE: October 15, 2026
INFO: Cowrie Crossings is seeking six Black romance authors to join a seven-story holiday romance anthology celebrating Black love, releasing late 2027. Each author contributes one short story (7,500–10,000 words) on a select theme. Queer-inclusive, sweet, hot, and fun, with Black joy at the center.
COMPENSATION: $100 flat fee per story plus contributor copies.
Cowrie Crossings licenses non-exclusive anthology rights with a 24-month exclusivity window, after which contributors are free to republish their story anywhere. The imprint covers the cover design and commissioned character art for each couple. Imprint will provide some social media graphics for marketing. The shared theme and title are revealed to confirmed contributors.
HOW TO APPLY: Email cowriecrossings@gmail.com with a 2,000–3,000 word writing sample that feels close to the book's spirit, and a contributor bio. Open to writers at any career stage.
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2027 Fresh Voices Fellowship
Ephipany Magazine
DEADLINE: October 15, 2026
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: The Fresh Voices Fellowship annually supports one early-career Black, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander or other writer of color who does not have nor is currently pursuing an advanced writing degree. Fellows receive $2000, print publication, a year-long position on our editorial masthead, and a year-long writing mentorship with Epiphany editors. Developing writers who are historically excluded from the publishing industry gain an advanced understanding of the inner functioning of an established magazine and the editorial process while honing their literary craft.
Applicants must not have an advanced degree (MA, MFA, PhD) in creative writing, English, or a related field, and must not be enrolled at the time of application in any degree-granting program. A BA in Creative Writing or English is acceptable, as is a Masters or PhD in an unrelated field. Applicants must not have published or be contracted to publish a full-length book (excluding self-publication). An early-career writer may be any age, and we are especially interested in writers who have not received prestigious awards, fellowships, or publications. Fellows must be based in or be living in the United States during the twelve-month fellowship, and must be at least 18 years of age. Submissions must be written primarily in English. Preference will be given to New York City-based applicants, as in-person interaction will enhance the fellowship experience.
Fellows can expect to commit 5-8 hours per week reading and reviewing submissions, attending editorial meetings, and working with a mentor on their own writing. Additional commitments may include attending in-person and virtual events, performing at readings, editing work in advance of publication, conducting interviews for the magazine, or writing reviews for the magazine.
PRIZE:
One writer, in prose or poetry, will receive:
A $2000 stipend
A twelve-month editorial fellowship at Epiphany, which entails the opportunity to participate in the editorial and publication process of a small non-profit literary magazine, and to build close relationships with the editorial team
Publication in a print issue of Epiphany
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Work Sample: Please include a 5 page sample of work you feel most represents you, your interests, and your literary style. If you’re sending a novel excerpt, please include a short synopsis of the novel and an explanation of where, in the story, the excerpt falls. This sample need not be unpublished. For poetry, each new poem should begin on a new page. Prose should be double-spaced.
Cover Letter: Please tell us a bit about yourself as an artist, your relationship to the mainstream literary/publishing world, and what you are hoping to gain by working in a literary magazine environment for a year.
All writing, including cover letter, must be entirely the product of the listed author. No writing that is plagiarized or created with the use of AI will be accepted.
All applicants will receive 40% off the first year of a digital subscription to Epiphany. The code to access this subscription will be found in the receipt email for each submission.
epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
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2027 Wedding Cake House Residencies
The Dirt Palace |📍Providence, RI
DEADLINE: October 15, 2026
INFO: The Wedding Cake House offers short term, project based residencies with a focus on mid-career artists.
Election day 2026 is Nov 3rd and pretty much everything is at stake and also what it will take to change course goes miles beyond the horizon of electoral politics. Yes the arts sector has been decimated, but also everything has been decimated: Happy Birthday USA! For this residency season we are encouraging artists to apply whose starting point is “yes, this is an absolutely a low point in America, particularly in the arts, and everyone is exhausted, but I’m figuring out a way to attempt to create in this time, that is responsive to this moment.” Maybe you are opening new metaphoric portals, or maybe you have an idea to literally run through a house slamming doors. Who knows, but your project is “in it” with all of the chronic chaos that 2026 has to offer. This does not mean that what you’re working on has to be “social practice” or “political art”, but we’re hoping to have a season of working with artists who are managing being in this moment in interesting ways. “Interesting” might often be a polite way of saying fucked up, but a little bit beautiful.
Are you eyeballs deep in a project that strategizes new economic models? Writing poems about the emotional stress of “losing” in any variety of ways? Doing data visualization about profit distributions of data mining? Collaborating with a scientist to humanize our understanding of the effects of global warming? Viciously satirizing wellness industry profiteering and health care dysfunction? Come hang out and work in a Victorian Mansion run by feminists before feminists are all loaded onto a barge going nowhere. Do we have answers: no. Do we have everything that you’ll need to be fully supported wrestling in the existential chasm: probably also no, but you’ll be housed and depending on what residency model you opt for maybe even fed. There are no fees for the residency or to apply, so all you have to lose is the time that you take to explain yourself, and our hope is that maybe that explaining will be helpful anyway in some way. Non-artists collaborating with artists are welcome to be part of a duo.
This coming season we are taking applications for the full suit of our residency offerings. We are no longer limiting applications geographically to artists who live in New England, however preference will be given to artists from New England and Rhode Island in particular. We are not accepting International applications this year and are generally more interested in working with artists from 2nd cities than Metropolitan art-hubs..
All applicants are asked to read the Wedding Cake House Residency Info page in its entirety before applying to a residency at the Wedding Cake House. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to hit us up at weddingcakehouseresidencies@gmail.com
NOTIFICATION: Applicants notified the week of Dec 1st
interlacefund.submittable.com/submit
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call for submissions: Issue #2 - Tidal Wave
Raat Ki Rani Magazine
DEADLINE: October 18, 2026
INFO: Raat Ki Rani Magazine is a reader-funded literary and arts publication featuring short stories, poems, personal essays, and visual art. Named after the night-blooming jasmine, the spirit of our magazine is dreamy, introspective, and always becoming.
THEME: Tidal Wave
Exploring ideas of abrupt change, beginning again, navigating uncertainty, and holding on through it. The theme is open to interpretation. Please avoid using the theme as your title. See the mood board here.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We accept original, unpublished work. If your piece has appeared on a personal blog or your social media pages, that is fine. We simply ask that it has not been formally published elsewhere and that you retain all rights.
You are welcome to submit to multiple categories, but please only submit once per category.
Foreign languages are allowed but must be submitted with an English translation.
Poetry: 2-5 Poems, Max 10 Pages
Short Story & Essay: Max 3,000 words
Visual Art: 1-5 works relating to the theme
Visual art may include illustration, photography, film, or other digital work.
Any questions? Please check our FAQs before contacting the editor at nain@raatkiranimagazine.com.
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2027 Editorial Fellow
Wendy’s Subway
DEADLINE: October 23, 2026
INFO: Wendy’s Subway is seeking an Editorial Fellow to join our team in 2027. The Editorial Fellowship at Wendy’s Subway offers hands-on training, mentorship, and professional development in the field to an emerging arts/literary editor. The Editorial Fellow will work closely with our small and dedicated editorial team to gain in-depth editorial and book-making experience.
Publishing at Wendy’s Subway takes on various forms as we work closely with writers, artists, educators, collectives, and organizations to bring their work into print. Our program prioritizes practices that surface—with singular awareness—experiences, social histories, and political urgencies past and present, with a focus on literatures and voices that bring new poetic, experimental, and improvisational choreographies of language and life to the fore.
We publish around 10 titles annually as part of our interdisciplinary publishing program, which includes the Document Series (hybrid-genre artist’s books highlighting time-based artists); the Passage Series (for emerging writers working in cross-genre poetic forms); Distal (non-Anglophone writing in translation); as well as artists’ books, co-publications, poetry chapbooks, and zines.
ROLE + RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Editorial Fellow will:
Learn about the publication process from conceptualization to book release, including liaising with writers, artists, and designers; maintaining timelines and budgets; and coordinating production and printing
Conduct research for titles across our publication program
Fact check, edit, and copy-edit materials for publication according to our in-house style guide
Develop outreach strategies for our titles, to reach wide audiences and garner critical engagement, including conducting press research and outreach; expanding distribution to bookstores and libraries worldwide; and facilitating course adoptions
Assist in the production and promotion of publication-related events (readings, tours, workshops, performances) at Wendy’s Subway or with partnering venues or book fairs
Develop pedagogic resources and interpretation tools around our publishing program for educators
EXPERIENCE + ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants should have an active interest in art and literary publishing, translation, editing, and/or interdisciplinary and experimental practices. We seek applicants whose experiences demonstrate those interests, though that need not be through prior professional experience in publishing or academic training in these fields. Applicants should have excellent communication and written skills; and be well-organized, detail-oriented, comfortable working both independently and within a small team, and invested in collaboration. A desire to deeply engage with our mission is essential.
Applicants must be local to one of New York City’s boroughs, authorized to work within the United States, and able to commit to working 2 days, or approximately 15 hours/week, for the duration of the Fellowship, from January 18–December 13, 2027 (12 months, or 42 weeks, including holidays).
This is an on-site position, at Wendy’s Subway, with occasional remote work. The Editorial Fellow is expected to attend bi-weekly staff meetings when possible; attendance at occasional staff gatherings, public programs, and book fairs may be required.
COMPENSATION:
The Editorial Fellow will receive an honorarium of $11,000 for the duration of the year-long position. The Fellow will also benefit from:
Free year-round enrollment in all workshops and reading groups
Ongoing access to our library collection of over 5,000 titles
A modest professional development budget for external training, workshops, or project-related travel
Editorial and production support to develop a short-form digital or print publication, reflecting out the Fellow’s research, creative projects, and/or program-related experiences developed during the Fellowship
Participating in our Annual Retreat, a staff-wide gathering to take stock of our mission, operations, international processes, organizational growth, and program development
APPLICATION PROCESS:
Applications must be received by October 23, 2026. Email jobs@wendyssubway.com, using the subject line “Editorial Fellow,” with the following materials attached in PDF form:
A current CV
A 1-page cover letter that includes: (1) a statement describing the experience you bring to the position, your interest in editorial work and independent publishing, and your goals for the Editorial Fellowship at Wendy’s Subway; (2) a brief statement describing your engagement with one or more titles published by Wendy’s Subway, and how the program resonates with your own reading practice and editorial interests
Names and contact information for two references
Applications will be reviewed by the Wendy’s Subway team, and finalists will be invited to meet for an interview in mid-November. The successful applicant will be notified in early December and will begin the Fellowship in January 2027. We encourage applicants to familiarize themselves with our mission and programs before applying.
Wendy’s Subway is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equity, accessibility, and ongoing efforts toward being a more inclusive organization. Candidates of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply, and we will work with applicants to offer accommodations and flexibility.
wendyssubway.com/resources/all/applications-open-2027-editorial-fellow
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2027 Center Fellowship
Center for Art and Advocacy
DEADLINE: October 25, 2026 at 11:59 pm
APPLICATION FEE: $0
INFO: The Center for Art and Advocacy will accept applications from creatives working in visual art, film, music, creative writing, performance, design, and multidisciplinary practices for the 2027 Center Fellowship (formerly Right of Return) from September 15 through October 26, 2025.
The Center's Fellowship, formerly known as Right of Return, is open to directly impacted creatives from every discipline. For the 8th annual cohort, a panel of external reviewers will select six new 2026 Right of Return Fellows from our open-call applicant pool to receive a $20,000 grant, mentorship, and community building opportunities. For the first time ever, one of the six fellowships will be designated to an artist between 18-24 years of age.
ELIGIBILITY: Through our Fellowship, the Center for Art and Advocacy seeks to support directly impacted artists with a demonstrated capacity to advance social change and a clear vision for utilizing their creative practice to end mass incarceration.
More specifically:
Directly impacted artists of all creative disciplines, ages 18 or older at the time of the application. We do not fund organizations or non-profits, only individual artists.
We define the word “artist” in broad terms to include creatives who work in visual art, film, music, creative writing, performance, and multidisciplinary practices.
In the context of this Fellowship, “directly impacted” includes those who have themselves been incarcerated in U.S. prisons, jails, or detention centers. Those who were detained in migrant detention centers must have since attained U.S. citizenship by the time of this application’s opening.
Artists must collaborate with an advocacy organization during the development and/or execution of their proposed project (collaborating organizations do not need to be secured at the time of application and the Center for Art and Advocacy can help connect fellows to advocates).
Artists may be at any stage of their career, with or without formal training.
Projects and applicants must be U.S. based. This includes all 50 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico.
The Center for Art and Advocacy seeks a diverse cohort of fellows with regard to race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and experience.
TIMELINE:
Applications close: Sunday, October 25, 2026 11:59 PM
Public announcement of cohort - Tuesday, January 12, 2027
centerforartandadvocacy.submittable.com/submit
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2026 Moondancer Fellowship for Environmental and Nature Writers
Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow |📍Eureka Springs, AR
DEADLINE: October 31, 2026 at 11:59 pm CST
INFO: The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is pleased to announce the official opening of applications for the 2026 Moondancer Fellowship. Designed for authors who express their passion for the natural world and address vital environmental issues through their work, this fellowship supports poets, fiction writers, playwrights, screenwriters, essayists, memoirists, and columnists alike. Prior publication is not required. Applicants will be evaluated on insight, honesty, literary merit, and the potential for future publication or production.
The Moondancer Fellowship is made possible through the generous sponsorship of the late Elise Roenigk, a longtime WCDH board member, given in loving memory of her husband, Marty Roenigk. WCDH is honored to carry their legacy forward through the writers this fellowship supports.
The selected fellow will receive a complimentary two-week stay at The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, allowing uninterrupted focus on their writing project. Travel to and from Eureka Springs is the responsibility of the fellow. Each private suite provides a peaceful atmosphere complete with a bedroom, private bathroom, separate writing space, and high-speed wireless internet. Fellows enjoy a supportive creative environment with dinners prepared six nights a week, access to a fully stocked community kitchen, and the opportunity to connect with a community of fellow professional writers.
APPLICATION DETAILS + TIMELINE:
Applications close: October 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM CST
Application requirements: A writing sample proposing one distinct project, plus a non-refundable $35 application fee. Writers submitting multiple projects must complete a separate application for each proposal.
Judging period: November – December 2026
Winner announced: December 2026
Residency must be completed within one year of the award announcement.
writerscolony.org/scholarships-fellowships/fellowships-current-past/
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2027-2028 Fellowship
The Ransom Center |📍Austin, TX
DEADLINE: November 6, 2026 by 5:00pm CST
INFO: The Ransom Center will award up to 50 research fellowships for its 2027–2028 program.
Please view the individual residency types within the application instructions to determine the qualifications for each. We offer funding to graduate students, current and former academic faculty at any level of career, and independent researchers such as journalists and artists, who require archival research at the Center for their projects.
Research conducted by humanities scholars contributes to a dynamic body of knowledge that has the potential to reshape our understanding of archival collections—what is preserved and valued in our communities. The Ransom Center fosters a supportive environment so that researchers may explore, examine, critique, and better understand the cultural works in its collections. Fellowships of varying lengths (from one week to two months) are offered for research projects that require substantial on-site use of collections that span a variety of disciplines.
The Ransom Center's internationally renowned collections encourage and support research in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, performing arts, music, cultural history, and interdisciplinary studies.
Research projects might include:
Scholarly articles or monographs
Dissertations
Creative work, including but not limited to plays, novels, films, and interdisciplinary pieces
Digital humanities
Performance-based research
Exhibition proposals
Collaborative research
TYPES OF AVAILABLE FELLOWSHIPS:
Postdoctoral Fellowships — $3,500 PER MONTH*
Postdoctoral fellowships are available for scholars with a PhD or other terminal degrees (e.g., MFA, MLIS), including current and former academic faculty and similarly qualified researchers without an institutional affiliation. Postdoctoral fellows may apply for one or two months of funding.Dissertation Fellowships — $2,500*
Dissertation fellowships are available for graduate students whose in-progress doctoral dissertations require use of the Center's collections. Dissertations must not have been completed by the start of the fellowship period. Master’s students or other graduate researchers who are not working on a dissertation should apply for a travel stipend.Travel Stipends — $2,000*
Travel stipends are available for graduate students, current and former academic faculty, and independent researchers such as journalists and artists, whose projects require access to the Ransom Center’s collections. Travel stipends may not be combined with other Ransom Center fellowships.
* For all fellowship categories, an additional, one-time $500 stipend will be provided to individuals who are citizens or residents of countries other than the U.S. to contribute to the costs associated with the J-1 visa and/or international travel to Austin
hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/#application-instructions
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ROLLING SUBMISSIONS
CALL FOR PITCHES: INTERVENXIONS
The Latinx Project at New York University
DEADLINE: Rolling
INFO: Intervenxions is The Latinx Project’s online publication, featuring original writings, criticism, and interviews exploring contemporary Latinx art, politics, and culture.
We accepts pitches on a rolling basis and typically publishes during the academic year (September to May).
CONTENT TYPES:
Reviews
Criticism
Essays
Interviews
We don't publish personal essays, op-eds, fiction, or poetry.
GUIDELINES:
Word length: 1,000 to 2,500 words
Style: We use Chicago Manual of Style. We aim to publish writing that is accessible to a broad audience and draw from research, experience, and interviews.
Images: It is the writer's responsibility to secure image rights for published article.
CONTRIBUTOR BENEFITS:
We offer a modest honorarium for independent writers, graduate students, and freelance contributors. This also includes faculty not currently in a tenured position.
$300 for reviews, interviews, short essays (up to 1,500 words)
$400 for profiles, and long-form content (1,500 words or more)
All writers have the opportunity to be considered for Intervenxions’ annual printed volume.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
An editorial team consisting of three to four people, including editors, NYU staff, and faculty will review your pitch. The editorial team selects pitches based on the originality of the content, its relevance for Intervenxions, and the quality of the pitch and writing sample(s). The editorial team typically makes a decision within three weeks of receiving a pitch.
latinxproject.nyu.edu/pitch-intervenxions
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CALL FOR HORROR WRITERS
Harriet’s House
INFO: Harriet's House invites submissions from horror writers of the African diaspora for its 2026/2027 issue. Harriet’s House is an online magazine that publishes one literary horror story a month by a writer of the African diaspora. Harriet’s House is an ode to Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved Black woman and one of the first Black authors to write in the gothic genre, horror’s fraternal sister, noted as the well from which modern horror writing sprang.
During Harriet’s lifetime, she hid in the crawl space of her grandmother’s house for seven years to escape a menacing slave owner who threatened to sell her children. For a long time, home was a precarious concept for Harriet. The magazine is an ode to her and the house she built for those who have followed in her literary footsteps. Send us your supernatural, haunting, and terrifying stories.
GUIDELINES: We are looking for short stories between 1,200 and 5,000 words. We are interested in but not limited to: gothic horror, speculative horror, supernatural horror, body horror, psychological drama and survival horror.
Writers can send their stories to harrietshousemag@gmail.com
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “NOTES, COMMENTARY AND REFLECTIONS”
Small Axe Journal
INFO: The Small Axe Journal is getting a new section. Named “Notes, Commentary and Reflections,” this section will feature pieces that address urgent contemporary issues in the Caribbean.
GUIDELINES: Submissions should have a maximum of 2,500 and should be uploaded to our submissions portal, which can be found on our website.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Amp
INFO: Want to write for The Amp? We welcome you to pitch us! We publish stories that are by and for the AAPI community, showcasing visual art, theater, dance, film, music, and everything in between.
GUIDELINES:
Essays: 800-1,000 words that identify a cultural zeitgeist and important, prescient themes within the AAPI cultural community.
Reviews: 300-500 words on recent or current events, exhibitions, publications, etc. These should have an angle or specific point of view and be overall celebratory while still remaining critical.
Profiles: 500-800 word profiles that spotlight AAPI who are shaping the cultural landscape in NYC, from artists to arts administrators, organizers, and collectors. These profiles are a testament to the fact that culture cannot exist without community.
Interviews: A conversation between cultural figures around a specific theme or a direct interview with a single subject.
To pitch, email theamp@aaartsalliance.org with the article category in the subject line (ie: Review, Profile, Essay, Interview, etc.) followed by a pithy working title. It should look something like this:
“Essay Pitch: Writing the Story of AAPI Art and Culture”
From there, describe what and why you are pitching in 3-5 sentences; what is the story and why is it important that it’s covered in The Amp? Please include any relevant time pegs as well as an estimated word count.
Finally, introduce yourself. Previous bylines or writing samples are always appreciated.
The Amp offers flat fees at a rate of $.40 per word, rounded down to the nearest hundred words (e.g. $240 for 600 words).
PLEASE NOTE: Due to limited bandwidth, The Amp can only cover events and artists that are based in the NYC area. We also do not publish features by artists writing about their own work, however we welcome you to share upcoming events for potential coverage, or submit the event to A4’s community calendar.