Although international travel seems like a large question mark at the moment, artists and cultural operators living and working in North Africa countries can apply for the "Artistic and Cultural Mobility Grant" from Fanak Fund.
Sunday Submissions: Last Day to Apply for ‘Connect ME Digital Residency’
Connect ME will "pair an artist based in the United Kingdom with an artist based in the GCC, to create new, collaborative work that considers how digital tools can encourage connectivity across borders."
Sunday Submissions: Exceptional Grants for Arab Artists & Writers
The deadline for applications is Friday July 3, 2020, at 4:00 PM Beirut time.
Sunday Submissions: Mizna Poetry Coalition Fellowship
Mizna, a "critical platform for contemporary literature, art, film, and cultural programming centering the work of Southwest Asian and North African artists," is seeking applicants for its poetry coalition fellowship.
Sunday Submissions: Speculative Fiction in Translation
"We value expanding our perceptions, whether through reading narratives or poems from under-represented groups, or through you sharing insight. We are open to unusual yet readable styles, inventive structures and narratives, and works that address political issues in complex and nuanced ways, resisting oversimplification."
5 Questions: On the Hybrid and Collective Writing Competition
"By that we mean the ethos of hybridization, one that encourages richness in movement, in a linguistic or cultural sense, one that embraces an openness of mind that allows you to experience the same thing from different angles."
Sunday Submissions: Tolsun Books ‘Translation Chapbook Contest’
"Because we understand that competition entrance fees can exclude some writers, submission fees will be waived on June 15th and July 15th."
Sunday Submissions: Anxiety-related Translations
"For their thirty-ninth issue, 'carte blanche' editors are looking for a variety of works focused on anxiety."
Sunday Submissions: Open Letter Books
"Open Letter is a literary press that publishes ten books annually—mostly novels, but also collections of short stories, poetry, and literary essays."
Sunday Submissions: Words Without Borders 2020 ‘Poems in Translation’ Contest
"Winning poets and translators will be awarded $150 each."
Sunday Submissions: ‘Pen Translates’ Open Until May 31
The PEN Translates award is open for submissions through the end of May.
Sunday Submissions: Stephen Spender Prize
The judges for this year's Stephen Spender Prize are Mary Jean Chan, Khairani Barokka, and Daljit Nagra.
