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The One Story is pleased to announce its $2,000 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship to offer a year-long mentorship on the craft of fiction writing.

18 upcoming grants and competitions are offering creatives, researchers, innovators, and nonprofits over $600,000 in funding opportunities. Some also provide training and non-cash support for women and youth innovators.

The African Griot Review is proud to announce the return of the Kshs 50,000 Alexander Nderitu World Literature Prize to honour original, one-act stage plays from anywhere in the world.

The £5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished short fiction administered and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation.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