Poetry Opportunities - Fellowship and Call for Poets
August 25, 2021
VCA: Leadership Listening Session: Planning in Light of COVID Recording
On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, VCA's Janet Starke, and peers from across the state discussed evolving policies and protocols that organizations are adopting in light of the evolving circumstances regarding COVID.
Barter Theatre's Black in Appalachia InitiativeMonologue Competition
Barter Theatre is working to ensure that the stories of Black Appalachian communities are told on our stages and throughout the region. As many will recall learning about in January's Art Works for Virginia conference, Barter created the Black in Appalachia Initiative, which involved actively seeking out Black Appalachian plays, public readings and conducting a playwriting workshop for Black theatre artists. This year, Barter is adding to this initiative with a monologue competition. Barter shares that it is their hope that by connecting Black playwrights (wherever they are located) with stories from Black Appalachian communities, they can:
Create monologues that can be developed into full-length plays
Create/produce a canon of work that explores the Black Appalachian experience, both past and present
Establish and cultivate relationships with Black playwrights and other Black theatre artists
Give audiences accessibility to new perspectives on life in Appalachia
Submission Guidelines:
Playwright must be Black.
Monologues must be set in Appalachia.(See this linkfor list of qualifying states/counties as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission)
Monologues must be 5-7 minutes in length (190 words = 1 minute).
Monologues must be unpublished and not have had a professional production.
Monologues must be submitted electronically.
Deadline for submission: October 1, 2021.
Please email Barter’s resident playwright Catherine Bush cbush@bartertheatre.com with questions.
Students, what matters to you most in our world today? Virginia needs your voice to build a better world! Show us in your poems, and in your vision to work creatively with others, and apply to represent your region as a Young Poet in the Community.
Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria invites applications from young poets throughout Virginia at the elementary, middle school, high school, and college undergraduate level. She, with panelists from the Poetry Society of Virginia, will review applications and select 5 Young Poets in the Community (1 elementary school, 1 middle school, 2 high school, 1 college undergraduate) in each of the Poetry Society of Virginia regions. Submissions are due by Oct. 15, 2021.
CERF+'sCOVID-19 Relief Grant Program Deadline is August 31
The deadline for submissions for the fourth cycle of CERF+'sCOVID-19 Relief Grant Program is August 31, 2021. The $1,000 grants are for artists working in craft disciplines who are facing dire circumstances due to food, housing, and/or medical insecurities as a result of the pandemic. Please review our eligibility guidelinesbefore applying. Priority will be given to Black, Indigenous, People of Color, as well as folk and materials-based traditional artists.
Due to the magnitude of this pandemic, artists that received a COVID-19 Relief Grant in a previous cycle are not eligible to receive another one.
ICYMI: $5,000 Artist Fellowships to be Awarded in Literary Arts: Poetry
The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) has announced the opening of its 2021-2022 Artist Fellowship program, this year highlighting Literary Arts, and most specifically, POETRY. All eligible Virginia-based poets are encouraged to apply.
Five (5) Artist Fellowships in the amount of $5,000 will be awarded by the Commission to recognize the creative merit of individual Virginia artists and to support their pursuit of artistic excellence. The application deadline is October 1, 2021, at 5 PM
USArtists International Offers Grants for Virtual Performances
USArtists International supports performances by U.S. dance, music, and theater solo artists and ensembles invited to perform at important cultural festivals and performing arts marketplaces anywhere in the world outside the United States and its territories.
This grant program has recently expanded to accept applications for virtual performances (live streamed or pre-recorded) at eligible international festivals. USArtists International grantees reflect the vibrant diversity of U.S. artists and creative expression in the performing arts.
The next program deadline is September 9, 2021. To learn more about the program, read the program guidelines, or view additional deadlines, please visit their website.
Image: Bridgman | Packer Dance performing TRUCK at the New Baltic Dance Festival in Lithuania through USArtists International 2017. Credit: Dmitrij Matvejev.
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