2024 Spring/Summer residencY
MacDowell
DEADLINE: September 10, 2023
INFO: The Fellowship application period for 2024 Spring/Summer residencies at MacDowell is now open.
There are no residency fees, and to defray expenses that accrue during an artist’s stay, MacDowell provides need-based stipends to cover rent, utilities, childcare, and lost income from taking time off from employment, as well as grants to travel to and from the residency.
MacDowell encourages artists to apply in any stage of their career, and from all backgrounds and countries, in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts.
If your proposed project does not fall clearly within one of these artistic disciplines, you should contact the admissions department for guidance at admissions@macdowell.org.
Spring/Summer residencies will take place between March 1, 2024 and August 31, 2024.
macdowell.org/apply/apply-for-fellowship
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2024 SUMMER/FALL RESIDENCY
Hedgebrook
DEADLINE: September 11, 2023
APPLICATION FEE:
Applications submitted weeks 1-3: $45
Applications submitted week 4: $55
INFO: Hedgebrook’s Writer-in-Residence Program supports writers from all over the world for fully-funded residencies of two to four weeks (travel is not included and is the responsibility of the writer to arrange and pay for). Up to 6 writers can be in residence at a time, each housed in their own 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.
Hedgebrook’s mission is to support visionary women-identified writers, 18 and older, whose stories and ideas shape our culture now and for generations to come. Writers must be women, which is inclusive of transgender women and female-identified individuals. Because gender inequity still occurs in all spaces including literary ones, it is part of our explicit mission to support and promote women’s voices. This application is not for alumnae seeking a return stay.
2023 RESIDENCY DATES: July-Oct 2024
hedgebrook.org/writers-in-residence
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PRINCETON ARTS FELLOWSHIP
Princeton University
DEADLINE: September 12, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
INFO: Princeton Arts Fellowships, funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, David E. Kelley Society of Fellows in the Arts, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Scholarship Fund, will be 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—this list is not meant to be exhaustive—who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
We are only accepting submissions for the Programs in Creative Writing, Theater, and Visual Arts for the 2023 Princeton Arts Fellowship application cycle.
Princeton Arts Fellows spend two consecutive academic years (September 1-July 1) at Princeton University and formal teaching is expected. The normal work assignment will be to teach one course each semester subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, but fellows may be asked to take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a class, such as directing a play or creating a dance with students. Although the teaching load is light, our expectation is that Fellows will be full and active members of our community, committed to frequent and engaged interactions with students during the academic year.
STIPEND: A $90,000 a year stipend is provided. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree. One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply. Holders of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton are not eligible to apply.
GUIDELINES: To apply, please submit a curriculum vitae, contact information for three references (should the search committee choose to contact references, please do not request letters or have letters sent in advance of a request from the search committee), and work samples (i.e., a writing sample, images of your work, video links to performances, etc.). Please also submit a 750-word proposal that includes how you would hope to use the two years of the fellowship to develop your work, how you would contribute to Princeton’s arts community through teaching and/or production, and how you have encouraged diversity and inclusion in your artistic practice, teaching, and/or research.
Applicants can only apply for the Princeton Arts Fellowship twice in a lifetime.
arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/princeton-arts-fellowship/
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CALL FOR Short Plays
Autry Museum of the American West
DEADLINE: September 15, 2023
14th Annual Short Play Festival
Who You Calling “Stoic?”: Not Your Cigar Store Indian
There are many stereotypes that Native Americans - living and dead - have had to contend with. One of the most pervasive in film, history, and wooden statues: the stoic, wise leader.
He never smiles. He rarely speaks. He is always a he.
But we know better. And for Native Voices 14th Annual Short Play Festival, you will, too!
We’re asking our writers to dive into the image of the “Stoic Indian.” Let’s flip that stereotype on its head.
Will you…
Showcase that brilliant wit lurking behind that stoic facade?
Tackle the stories of the very real (and wise)?
Regale us with the playfully mischievous?
Surprise us?
Instead of playing stoic, Native Voices’ 2024 Short Play Festival is asking for stories that play with stoic. Come, make us laugh, teach us a lesson, or show us stoic as we join together for the Autry for our 14th Annual Short Play Festival.
Please keep your plays under 10 minutes! Plays selected to participate in the 14th Annual Short Play Festival will also be entered to win the Thomas Studie Gadugi Audience Prize of $500 and the Von Marie Atchley Excellence in Playwriting Award of $1,000.
Scripts longer than 15 pages or read aloud at longer than 10 minutes will not be accepted. Fresh, surprising perspectives are welcome!
theautry.org/explore/theatre-native-voices/call-scripts
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LANI’S GARDENS ARTISTS' RESIDENCY
DEADLINE: September 15, 2023
APPLICATION FEE: $20 (Paypal: issilah@gmail.com | Venmo: @kehaulanimusic | CashApp: $LaniPark888)
FEE: $555/month
INFO: Lani’s Gardens Artists Residency’s mission is to serve BIPOC, LGBTQ+ & ally artists & their families by providing them with a transformative island residency experience and a beautiful space in nature to relax, recharge, rejuvenate and create. The residency is located on the Big Island of Hawai'i. Artists live in an off-grid, solar-powered, private & gated, close-to-nature, glamping artists' sanctuary with a round swimming pool, picnic table, fireplace, and meditation tipi and a permaculture food forest with over 100 medicinal and edible plants, berry bushes, flowers, and fruit trees.
ELIGIBILITY: Practicing artists of all backgrounds and at any stage of their career are eligible to apply for a Lani’s Gardens Artists’ Retreat residency. Artists must be at least twenty-one years old. Please note that all eligibility requirements must be met at the time of application. We invite applicants to apply in the following disciplines:
Writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and journalism)
Visual Arts
Dance
Theater
Music Composition
Architecture
Interdisciplinary Work
DIVERSITY STATEMENT: Lani’s Gardens Artists’ Retreat actively seeks to invite diverse artists. Lani’s Gardens Artists’ Retreat does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, religion, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, veteran status, medical conditions including HIV, or sensory, physical, or mental disability.
RESIDENCY SESSIONS:
September 1st
October 2023
November 2023
December 2023
January 2024
February 2024
March 2024
APPLICATION TIMELINE & QUALIFICATIONS:
Applications will be accepted annually starting September 1st, until October 1st, at midnight Hawai'i Time. Late applications will not be accepted. Applicants will be contacted by October 1st. To apply, please contact Lani at kehaulanimusic@gmail.com and ask for an Lani’s Gardens’ Artists’ Retreat Application form. For questions, please contact kehaulanimusic@gmail.com with the subject line “Residency.” Or, give us a call at (808) 430-5459.
Applicants are judged by the same criteria across disciplines. We are looking for artistic excellence, sustained impact, and boldness of vision.
REFERENCES:
All applicants are required to submit two professional references. Please provide the name, contact information, and a very brief description of the nature of your professional relationship for each reference. Lani’s Gardens contacts references only if the application advances. References would be contacted iby either email or phone and would not submit a formal letter.
WORK SAMPLES:
VISUAL ART - Submit 5 JPEG images that best represent your work. They can be no more than three MB per image.
MUSIC COMPOSITION - Submit two or three audio samples of representative work. Each should be no more than 30MB each and should be in MP3 format or in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link.
DANCE - Submit two or three works totaling no more than fifteen minutes of video. Each work sample should be submitted in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link.
THEATER - Submit either two or three videos or PDFs. If you submit via video, they should total no more than fifteen minutes together in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link.
POETRY - Submit eight to ten short poems or excerpts of poems. The total should not exceed 15 pages and should be in PDF format.
FICTION, NONFICTION, & SCREENWRITING - Submit two to three work samples in the genre that you wish to work in during your residency. The total should not exceed 20 pages, be double-spaced, and be in PDF format.
ARCHITECTURE - Submit two to three examples of previous design-based architecture projects in the form of PDFs, video, or a combination of the two. The applicant may submit work samples including but not limited to models, drawings, and images of completed work.
INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK - Submit three to five work samples. The work samples can be in one type of media or a mixture of media including images (jpegs should be no more than three MB each), PDFs, video (MP4/MOV should be no more than 250 MB), Vimeo link, YouTube link, or audio (MP3 should be no more 30MB each).
kehaulanimusic.typeform.com/to/gBdFe4lR
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2024-2025 Cullman Center Fellowship
New York Public Library
DEADLINE: September 29, 2023
INFO: The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offers Fellowships to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Renowned for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its collections, the Library is one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, sports, and urban studies.
CRITERIA + TERMS: The Cullman Center’s Selection Committee awards fifteen Fellowships a year to outstanding scholars and writers—academics, independent scholars, journalists, creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets), translators, and visual artists. Foreign nationals conversant in English are welcome to apply. Candidates for the Fellowship will need to work primarily at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building rather than at other divisions of the Library. People seeking funding for research leading directly to a degree are not eligible.
The Cullman Center looks for top-quality writing. It aims to promote dynamic communication about literature and scholarship at the very highest level—within the Center, in public forums throughout the Library, and in the Fellows’ published work.
A Cullman Center Fellow receives a stipend of up to $75,000, the use of an office with a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources. Fellows work at the Center for the duration of the Fellowship term, which runs from September through May. Each Fellow gives a talk over lunch on his or her current work-in-progress to the other Fellows and to a wide range of invited guests, and may be asked to take part in other programs at The New York Public Library.
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ARTISTS & WRITERS RESIDENCY
Vermont Studio Center
DEADLINE: October 1, 2023
INFO: Each month, VSC welcomes over 50 artists and writers from across the country and around the world to our historic campus in northern Vermont.
All of our residencies include:
A private room in modest, shared housing
24-hour access to a private studio space in one of our 6 medium-specific studio buildings
3 communal meals per day (plus fresh fruit, coffee/tea/cold beverages, and cereal available around the clock)
Most residents stay with us for 1 month, so our sessions adhere to a 4-week calendar however, residencies can be scheduled in 2-week increments ranging from 2 to 12 weeks if a shorter or longer stay better suits your needs. Although we accept residents for stays for 2 weeks, we recommend a minimum stay of one month for the fullest experience.
Each 4-week session includes:
Opening Night Dinner & Reception
7 Resident Presentation (“Res Pres”) Nights
2 Open Studios Nights
Public Slide Talks / Public Readings from our Visiting Artists & Writers
Visiting Writer Craft Talks (open to writers only)
Opportunities for studio visits/manuscript critiques with Visiting Artists/Writers
Most months, numerous other spontaneous events take place--intimate readings, pop-up shows, group hikes or swims, performances, site-specific installations, movie screenings, dance parties, and bonfires, to name a few.
All events in our monthly program are optional. Our program is designed to enhance your studio practice by providing opportunities to engage with a supportive creative community; you are welcome to participate in as many or as few of these activities as you like.
FELLOWSHIPS:
Voices Rising Fellowship - For Black American women fiction writers with demonstrable financial need. This fellowship was established in honor of women writers of color such as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Zora Neale Hurston, whose voices have inspired so many. This award includes a $2,000 stipend.
Susanna Colloredo Environmental Writing Fellowship - For a writer whose creative work directly engages environmental issues, awareness, and the complex challenges facing the planet.
Harpo Foundation Native American Fellowship - This award supports exceptional Native American writers. This award includes a $500 travel stipend.