Velvetpark Residency is a project based work-studio, awarded through a selection process by open application. It is open to LGBTQ+ writers and visual artists to complete a proposed project. The studio will be awarded bi-yearly, and will alternate between writers and visual artists respectively. Velvetpark‘s Residency award is for an artist, writer, creator at any...Read More
Netflix and NewFest have partnered for a new initiative, the New Voices Filmmaker Grant that supports emerging LGBTQ+ filmmakers. Four filmmakers with documentary, narrative, animated or episodic projects by and about the LGBTQ+ community will each receive a $25,000 grant. The Grant seeks to support the creation of work from underrepresented voices in the film...Read More
Located in Brooklyn, Velvetpark offers a writer’s residency (January – June 2022) to emerging and established LGBTQ+ Writers. Velvetpark welcomes poets, fiction, creative fiction, and multidisciplinary writers to apply. A private workspace will be awarded to a selected writer, based on application project proposal and strength of past works. For materials you may need to submit view the...Read More
Seeking Poets! Color is Pride: The True Colors Challenge is open for submissions through May 16, 2021, at 11:59 PM EST. Each of the 15 selected winners will receive a $2,000 prize as well as the opportunity to work directly with Moleskine on their Pride Month campaign throughout the month of June, the aim of...Read More
The Fire Island Artist Residency offers five emerging artists who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer a shared live/work space in the secluded community of the historic LGBTQ settlement of Fire Island. The four-week program includes studio visits with, and public lectures by, renowned leaders in contemporary art and curation. Click here to...Read More
Velvetpark Residency is a project based work-studio, awarded through a selection process by open application. It is open to LGBTQ+ writers and visual artists to complete a proposed project. Writers Application Now Open Sept., 20, 2020—deadline November 15th, 2020, 11:59pm. Awardee for the Winter/Spring term will be notified on or before Dec 15, 2020 and announced on the Vp site...Read More
