Open Calls for Arts Writers
Whether you’re an established writer or an art critic in the making, finding opportunities to get funded and published is vital. To help advance your career in arts writing, we’ve compiled the best current opportunities in the field from across the globe, including cash prizes, grants, publication opportunities, and mentorships.
Hyundai Artlab | Editorial Fellowship
Hyundai Artlab is looking to support two art writers whose texts on contemporary art exercise critical empathy. These writers should navigate the balance between care and critique, the interrogative and intuitive, the perceptive and imaginative, and engage through dialogue to deepen understanding. This Fellowship is open to art writers from anywhere in the world and at any career stage.
Rewards: $10,000 stipend, publication, and mentorship
Image: Thomas Merceron, The Stirring of Sight, 2026. Commissioned by Hyundai Artlab, © Thomas Merceron.
Japanese American National Museum | Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship
This fellowship is for US-based arts writers of color, defined as journalists, critics, and cultural commentators who analyze, contextualize, and interpret the arts for public audiences. The fellowship encourages critics of color starting out in the field of art criticism to continue writing about works from their own cultural and political perspectives, enriching and broadening cultural criticism as a practice and profession.
Rewards: $5,000 award and publication opportunity
Image: Yamamoto Arts Writer Fellowship by Japanese American National Museum
DAG Foundation | Prize for Literature
The DAG Prize for Literature is awarded annually to an emerging prose writer whose work expands the possibilities for American writing. The goal of the prize is to contribute meaningfully to the evolution of American prose literature. Prize funds can be used for research, writing, editing, workshops, residencies, or other activities that facilitate the creation of a significant project in prose literature.
Rewards: $20,000 prize
Image: Simona Andrioletti, If you feel me, I am you, 2026, installation view @RIBOT via Kubaparis
Serendipity | Blackink Launchpad
Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage is looking for emerging Black female artists based in the UK for their commissioning project Launchpad 2026. This program seeks to support artists to navigate multifaceted ways of working by developing a project that translates across a print magazine and online content.
Rewards: Publication, £750 commissioning fee, mentorship, and more
Image: Serendipity | Blackink Launchpad
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The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation | Grant for Writing on Sculpture
In this grant program, the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation’s goal is to encourage and support sculptors as well as writers on sculpture, both emerging and established, based in the United States. The JBSF grant program operates on a 2-year cycle with alternating grants that support writing in even years and sculpture in odd years, they are currently accepting applications for the Writing Grant.
Rewards: $20,000 grant
Image: The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation
Hasselblad Foundation | Photo Book Grant
With the photo book grants, the Hasselblad Foundation aims to support and contribute to the development and publication of photobooks. The grants are open to all professionals working with photography, including photographers, artists, curators, researchers, and writers. The grants are intended for book projects that are largely edited and designed. The book must not yet be published.
Rewards: SEK 100,000 grant
Image: Hasselblad Foundation
The Burlington Magazine | Prize for Writing on Sculpture
This new annual prize is intended to inspire the development and publication of innovative object-based scholarship on sculpture from the Renaissance to 1900. They seek previously unpublished articles of 1000–1500 words from early career scholars worldwide (this is defined as within 15 years of their most recent post-graduate degree, allowing for career breaks.) Preference will be given to object-related scholarship.
Rewards: £2500 fee and publication
Image: City of Tamarac
Master Drawings | Ricciardi Prize
This prize is awarded for the best new and unpublished article on a drawings topic (of any period) by a scholar under the age of 40. Prize winners will be invited to present their research at a symposium held during Master Drawings Week in New York (January 2027).
Rewards: Winner receives a $5,000 prize and publication, $1000 for the runner up
Image: Master Drawings
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