GRANTS FOR WRITERS

Greetings...sorry I was gone a couple days but now I'm back with some new announcements. Coming soon: book arts opportunities and more...

(WRITERS) Writers Grant Competition
The Elizabeth George Foundation is accepting applications for writing grants for 2010. Grants will be made to provide support for unpublished fiction writers, for unpublished and published poets, and for emerging playwrights. Interested writers should send a letter of inquiry to: Elizabeth George, Director, The Elizabeth George Foundation, PO Box 1429, Langley, WA 98260. Letters need to be received by the Foundation by July 1, 2009 to be considered for a grant for the 2010 calendar year. At this moment, I am not sure how much the grants are for so you will have to write to find out. I don't think they have a website. If anyone can find one for this foundation, please let me know!

(CANADIAN WRITERS) Creative Writing Grants
The Grants for Professional Writers Program covers subsistence, project and travel expenses. The Creative Writing Grants component gives Canadian authors (emerging, mid-career and established) time to write new literary works, including novels, short stories, poetry, children's literature, graphic novels and literary non-fiction. Deadline October 1, 2009.

(CANADIAN WRITERS) Project Assistance Grants
http://www.bcartscouncil.ca/programs/program.php?active_page=803&p=1 Grants are between $5,000 and $10,000. The deadline is Sept. 15 2009, but check the website to see if there have been any changes since the economic crash. Also available from the British Columbia Arts Council are music grants, grants for visual artists, and much more (for Canadian citizens only). For more opportunities for Canadian artists, go to: http://www.2010legaciesnow.com/438/

(ARTS WRITING) Frieze Writers' Prize
The frieze Writer’s Prize is an annual international award to discover and promote new art critics. The award will be judged in 2009 by critic and art historian James Elkins, novelist and critic Ali Smith, and co-editor of frieze magazine Jennifer Higgie. • Entrants must submit one previously unpublished review of a recent contemporary art exhibition, approximately 700 words in length. • Entries must be submitted in English, but may be a translation (this must be acknowledged). • Entrants must be over 18 years old. • To qualify, entrants may only previously have had a maximum of three pieces of writing on art published in any national or regional newspaper or magazine. Previous online publication is permitted. • The winning entrant will be commissioned to write a review for the October issue of frieze and be awarded 2000 GBP.
Deadline: 26 June 2009. • Entries should be emailed as a word attachment to writersprize@frieze.com. Please do not send images.