Art Grants

• The Delaware Division of the Arts - The Delaware Division of the Arts awards individual artist fellowships and opportunity grants to individual artists. Fellowships provide funding to Delaware artists working in the visual, performing, media, folk, and literary arts. Fellowships range from $3,000 to $10,000. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 0 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards Program - Literary Awards are given each year for the publication of quality new writing by Illinois writers in Illinois not-for-profit literary magazines. Companion awards of $1,000 will be given to selected Illinois writers and to the magazines that published their work. The awards recognize Illinois writers and help promote greater awareness of noncommercial publishing in the state. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 0 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Program - Non-matching Fellowships of $7,000 and Finalist Awards of $700 are awarded to Illinois artists of exceptional talent in recognition of their outstanding work and commitment to the arts. Awards are based upon the quality of works submitted and the evolving professional accomplishments of the applicant. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 11 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Art and Change Grant - The Art and Change Grant provides project-based grants of up to $2,500 to women and trans artists in the Delaware Valley region to fund art for social change projects. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 11 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Leeway Transformation Award - The Transformation Award provides unrestricted annual awards of $15,000 to women and trans artists living in the Delaware Valley region who create art for social change and have done so for the past five years or more, demonstrating a long-term commitment to social change work. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 22 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

Book Awards

• Children's Choice Book Awards - The Children's Choice Book Awards program was created to provide young readers with an opportunity to voice their opinions about the books being written for them and to help develop a reading list that will motivate children to read. The program is a new component of Children's Book Week, the longest running literacy event in the country. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 11 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Robert F. Kennedy Book Award - Each year the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial celebrates the book which most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes, his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 11 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards - The Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards are funded by the Ruth Schwartz Foundation. The Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were established by Sylvia Schwartz to honour the memory of her sister, Ruth, a prominent bookseller in Toronto. Two awards are presented annually, one for picture books and one for young adult/middle readers. The administration of these awards is shared by the Ontario Arts Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council which manages the jury process, and the Canadian Booksellers Association whose members choose the short list of books. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 11 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

Education Scholarships

• The Vision Awards Scholarship - IABC Cleveland offers college students pursuing a communications career the chance to apply for a competitive $2,000 scholarship. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 11 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• OECTA Young Authors Awards - The annual OECTA Young Authors Awards/Prix Jeunes Écrivains celebrates the writing talents of students and the teaching talents of their teachers. Each year, students submit short stories, poems, nonfiction articles and reports in both English and French. The first place winners at the school level advance to the unit level and then to the Provincial competition. A collection of the winning entries is published in book form each year. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 11 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

Journalism Awards

• The MOLLY National Journalism Prize - The MOLLY National Journalism Prize, including a $5,000 cash award, was established by The Texas Observer to recognize print or online journalism of exceptional merit that focuses on civil liberties and social justice, and embodying the intelligence, deep thinking and passionate wit that marked the work of the late Molly Ivins. The honorable mention prizes include $1,000 cash awards. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 22 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• New America Award - SPJ's New America Award honors public service journalism collaborations that include ethnic media in order to explore and expose an issue of importance to immigrant or ethnic communities in the United States. Any ethnic media organization (or journalist) and any non-ethnic media organization (or journalist) may be nominated based on the quality, depth and impact of their collaborative work. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 22 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Dorothea Lange Fellowship - The fellowship, in memory of one of the most outstanding documentary photographers of the 20th-century, encourages the use of photography (black and white or color) in scholarly work of any discipline at UC Berkeley. The fellowship will be awarded to a UC Berkeley faculty member, a graduate student, or a senior who has been accepted for graduate work at Berkeley. Applicants must demonstrate outstanding work in documentary photography and a creative plan for future work. The selected fellow will receive $4,000. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 11 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award - The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award honors the outstanding reporting of the lives and strife of disadvantaged people throughout the world. Led by a committee of six independent journalists, the Awards are judged by more than fifty journalists each year. It has become the largest program of its kind and one of few in which the winners are determined solely by their peers. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 12 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

Writing Contests

• The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award - The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award was established to honor a living author for a body of work that has profoundly enriched the understanding of American military history. The recipient's contributions may be academic, non-fiction, fiction, or a combination of any of the three, and his or her work should embody the values of the Pritzker Military Library. Award includes a $100,000 honorarium. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 22 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship - The Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship was established to support senior writers wishing to work on a major project over at least two years. It is the largest writing fellowship available in New Zealand, valued at $100,000. NEW! (Added: 26-Jun-2008 Hits: 5 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It