✍️ 100+ Grants, Residencies & Contests That Are Actually Worth It | November 26th, 2025

Journalists can apply for an AI fellowship paying up to $110,000, biographers can get a $72,000 NYC residency, and a Caribbean poetry prize offers a $1,000 cash award and publication.

Happy holiday season, writers!

In the subscriber chat we left a thread asking for what you’ve been grateful for this year, and one book or piece of media you’re happy to have found:

We’ll be taking a few days off for Thanksgiving, but still have some posts scheduled for you in the meantime as you’re sleeping off your Turkey coma :)

✍️ New Opportunities

• A new fellowship program is hiring early-career and senior journalists for a one-year program covering artificial intelligence. Pay is up to $110,000.

• A prestigious graduate center is offering five resident fellowships, including one for a science or technology biography, for nine months in NYC. Pay is $72,000.

• A prestigious Caribbean poetry book prize is offering an emerging poet a cash award and publication. Pay is $1,000.

Apply to these 100+ premium grants, residencies, and contest listings below ↓