DEADLINES FOR EMERGING AND MID-CAREER WRITERS!

Here are some upcoming opportunities for both emerging and mid-career writers...and by the way, if you live in the U.S. you should check your home state arts council to see if there are any deadlines coming up for fellowships and grants. Lots of them have deadlines in July and early September so check my sidebar on the right for the correct link.

The Alice Hayes Fellowship for Social Justice
Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois. This Fellowship is awarded to a woman fiction or nonfiction writer who is working to bring awareness to social justice, environmental justice, or peace. The Alice Hayes Fellow will receive a four week residency at Ragdale and a $500 stipend. Deadline: September 15, 2009. Visit: www.ragdale.org/hayesfellowship for application details or call Regin Igloria, Director of Artists-in-Residence at 847.234.1063 x. 206. ***(BTW--I have stayed at this art colony, which is about an hour outside of Chicago, many times and love it! It is my home away from home.)

Lesbian Writers Fund
The application deadline for this grant was June 30th but was just EXTENDED to July 15th, 2009! The Lesbian Writers' Fund offers grants of $10,000 to U.S. emerging lesbian writers in fiction and poetry who have published at least once in a magazine, literary journal, or anthology. Write to Lesbian Writers' Fund Awards at above address or see the web site for guidelines and application. Applicants may submit in only one category each year. This fund does not include nonfiction, screenplays, or plays. For more information, email [email protected] or go to: www.astraeafoundation.org.

Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellowships
PEN Center USA West, Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellowships, Antioch University, 400 Corporate Pointe, Culver City, CA 90230. Several Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellowships, with cash prize of $1,000 each, are available to emerging writers from minority, immigrant, and underserved communities. The program includes a one-on-one mentoring relationship with an established writer, master classes with established novelists, classes in the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension, informal visits with writers, and literary readings. Write to Emerging Voices at above address or see website (www.penusa.org/go/voices/) for details. E-Mail: [email protected]. Deadline: September 5, 2009.

Writers' Center Fellowship and Residency
Bronx Council on the Arts, 1738 Hone Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461
The Bronx Writers' Center Fellowship annually awards two nine-month literary fellowships to writers who reside in the Bronx, regardless of age but who are not enrolled as full-time students. An award of $5,000 is given to each winner and a community service project at the Bronx Writers' Center is required. All eligible applicants must submit four copies of a representative body of work of no more than ten pages of poetry or twenty pages of fiction. The work should display professional accomplishment and their commitment to a literary career. Apply to Bronx Writers' Center Fellowship at above address or see web site for more details: www.bronxarts.org/bwc_fellowships_guidelines.asp. E-Mail Address: [email protected] Application deadline: September 4, 2009.