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The £5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished short fiction administered and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation. 

Discover 20 diverse fellowship opportunities for African researchers, postdoctoral scholars, scientists, entrepreneurs, journalists, writers, and artists — with stipends ranging from €3,000 to $145,000 and deadlines closing between August 2025 and January 2026.

The $12,000 Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship returns with an offer for writer connected to the Indian Ocean.

The Miles Morland Foundation annually awards a small number of Morland Writing Scholarships, with the aim being to allow each Scholar the time to produce the first draft of a completed book.

Entries are now open for the $500 Joe Ushie Poetry Prize to celebrate the transformative power of poetry as a vehicle for expression, connection and change.

The $500 Diverse Writers grant is intended to support speculative fiction writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups — such as writers of color, women, queer writers, disabled writers, etc. — whose marginalized identities may present additional obstacles in the writing and publishing process.

The Eleventh Edition of the €10,000 International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC 11) 2025 is open to candidates from anywhere in the world writing in Chinese or English about any contemporary art exhibition held anywhere in the world or on-line between 1 September 2024 and 31 August 2025.

The Republic is pleased to announce the $500 Black Atlantic Editorial Fellowship, a six-month fellowship programme designed towards the commissioning, writing and curation of stories rooted in Blackness and the African experience.

The British Academy is excited to invite applications for its £30,000 International Writing Workshops to cultivate professional networks and mentorship and provide access for early career researchers in developing countries to the academic requirements of journals, including international journals and to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to publish in these journals.

The $10,000 Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2026 playwriting competition.