Calling all NYC artists! Grant season is here, and now is your opportunity to apply for funding.

Each year, the city partners with local arts councils in all five boroughs to help distribute funding to support the city’s vibrant creative community. These grants are designed to support individual artists, artist collectives, and cultural nonprofits working across disciplines—from visual arts and dance to theater, music, and community-based projects. Check out these grant opportunities for artists in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens!

📍 Manhattan – @LMCC_NYC
Deadline: Tuesday, September 16

📍 Brooklyn – @BKArtsCouncil
Deadline: Teaching artist applications - Sunday, September 28.
Deadline: BAC grants - Friday, November 7

📍 Bronx – @BronxArtsOrg
Deadline: Monday, November 3

📍 Queens – @NYFAcurrent
Grants open: Tuesday, September 16
Deadline: Tuesday, November 18

📍 Artists in Staten Island—sit tight! Grant opportunities from @StatenArts are launching in the coming weeks.

Visit the Instagram handles above for full application details by borough.

Welcome to BGV's 2025 Pitch Program. If you're a founder based in NYC, apply to our pitch program TODAY!

The BGV Pitch Program flips the traditional pitch experience on its head: we coach entrepreneurs, host a live crowdfunded pitch competition, then connect them to community and professionals to support them on their journey. You don't need to have experience pitching. 

At BGV, we create access to capital, capacity, and community for under-resourced entrepreneurs that enable business sustainability and create intergenerational wealth for a more equitable society. 

To be considered for this program, applicants must be :

Revenue generating

 In good standing

Located in the city you're applying
 

Ideal Candidate Profile:

Candidates that have personal values that are in alignment with BGV’s mission and purpose.

Candidates that exhibit good decision making skills and conduct themselves in an ethical manner that reflects BGV Core Values.
 

What you'll gain

1st Place Winner: $15K

2nd Place Winner: $10K

3rd Place Winner: $5K

A portion of the funds raised from the audience’s votes on Raisify.co

Membership to the BGV Connect Incubator

Direct funding and access to a new network of business owners and investors.   

Deadline: October 8th (applications close), October 14th (program starts)

Each month a grant round-up is presented for you: Here is a place for you to find resources to help you gain funding head-on. These grants are for small businesses, creators, and non-profits.

HELLO ALICE is a platform that helps you continuously find resources to fund your projects and business.

What are the goals of this residency?

In a time marked by overlapping global crises and a growing urgency to imagine more equitable futures, we recognize that BIPOC/PGM writers are often called upon to shoulder the additional labour of advocacy, cultural translation and education — a task that is often unacknowledged or uncompensated.

Amidst these pressures, we aim to offer material support and a space where underheard voices are resourced, uplifted, and given room to flourish. We seek to support the creation of a work of fiction or non-fiction that pushes boundaries in form or content, but is rooted first in the writer’s own voice and creative terms. 

What will the resident receive? 

The resident will receive a $4,000 honorarium to be delivered half upon commencement, half upon completion.

One month personal access to our writing studio during opening hours—a work-only, semi-private space in our upstairs loft on Granville Island.

Community engagement through two workshops or events in partnership with Upstart & Crow. 

Poetry Micro-Grants are back for a winter installment. Applications are now open! 📝

They are awarding three micro-grants of $500 each, plus a chance to have your poetry printed, displayed and distributed through Upstart & Crow.

Applicants must be…

📚 Emerging poets who have not yet published a full-length collection
📚 Currently residing in Canada
📚 18+ and actively writing, submitting, or workshopping their craft

The application deadline is Monday, Nov. 3 at 11 p.m.

The prize of $3,000, with an introduction by the judge and distribution of the winning book by Copper Canyon Press through Consortium, will be awarded in 2026 with publication of the book in the same year. The author will receive a standard book publishing contract, with royalties paid in addition to the $3,000 prize. This year's final judge is poet Dorothea Lasky.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and one book of prose, Animal (Wave Books). Her latest book of essays is the forthcoming MEMORY (Semiotext(e)). Her other books include ROME (Liveright/W.W. Norton), The Shining, Milk, Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all from Wave Books. She was also the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s, 2013). Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she directs the Poetry Concentration in the MFA program.

The prize is open to poets who have not published a book-length collection of poems with a registered ISBN. Poems previously published in journals or limited-edition chapbooks may be included in the manuscript, but the entire manuscript itself must not have been published as a book-length work. Translations are not eligible nor are works written by multiple authors. The editors of The American Poetry Review will screen manuscripts for the judge. APR complies with the CLMP Code of Ethics in the administration of this contest. The judge will select a manuscript in an anonymous review process and will not award the prize to any writer whose personal relationship to the judge poses a conflict of interest.

     To be considered for the prize, submit a manuscript of 48 pages or more, single-spaced, paginated, with a table of contents and acknowledgments.

     • Manuscripts must be received by October 1, 2025. The winning author and all other entrants will be notified by January 15, 2026.
     • You may simultaneously submit your manuscript elsewhere, but please notify us immediately if it is accepted for publication. Submission of more than one manuscript is permissible; each must be entered separately.
     • The winning author will have time to revise the manuscript after acceptance, but please send no revisions during the reading period.

Mother Jones is a nonprofit investigative news organization that delivers bold and original multiplatform reporting on the urgent issues of our time, from democracy protection and climate change to extremism and beyond. Much like our namesake, the 20th-century union organizer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones—who battled child labor and was once referred to as “the most dangerous woman in America”—we punch above our weight in service of fairness and justice: Our political scoops, deep-dive reportage, and narrative storytelling reach 8 million readers every month.

While most stories we publish come from staff reporters, we are always on the lookout for smart ideas from freelance writers, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds and who report on underrepresented communities. You can pitch editors directly via email—take a look at our staff page to get a sense of their areas of interest.

Fees and payment

Our rates are based on a writer’s experience, our experience with the writer, article type, and the difficulty of the reporting and editing required. For print, rates start at $1.75 per word. For online, rates start at $0.75 a word. We pay 1/3 of the fee upon submission of a first draft, and the rest as soon as possible after publication.

March/April: Crime [pitches due mid Sept 2025]

How much does MIT Technology Review pay?

Rates range from $1 to $2 per word, depending on the experience level of the writer, the story, and the publication route. Deeply reported features pay more than shorter news pieces. 

Who do I pitch to?

Pitches can be directed to commissioning editor Rachel Courtland (rachel.courtland@technologyreview.com). Be sure to include “PITCH” in the subject line of your email. We prefer pitches to be within the body of an e-mail instead of as an attachment.

*Accepting pitches on a rolling basis from storytellers of all experience levels.

Grassroots Thinking is an independent publication focused on the stories that matter to the Black working class. We explain the news, politics, and culture through reportage, analysis, commentary, interviews, and essays with an anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist lens. Our contributors are organizers, experts, and cultural workers who see the world as it is and know the point is to change it.

Good stories for Grassroots Thinking explain social phenomena. Great stories for Grassroots Thinking have a historical and material analysis. The best stories are persuasive, well-written, and, above all, interesting.

How much do we pay

Pay is based on an estimated $.10/word, starting at $75 per story.

We work with writers of all experience levels—including first-time contributors. If you’ve got something to say and a story that needs telling, we want to hear from you.

If you're ready to send your pitch or if you'd like to be added to our contributors list, click the button below.

About:

We host two international flash fiction writing competitions: the Bath Flash Fiction Award and the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. In addition to winning cash prizes, entrants have the opportunity to appear in our print and digital anthology collections, and also as single-author novellas-in-flash. Our books are published by the award-winning small press Ad Hoc Fiction, and are available to buy from their own independent bookshop as well as worldwide from Amazon.

Bath Flash Fiction Award

Three rounds per year: March to June, July to October, and November to February. Full details in the rules. In summary:

300-word limit.

£1000 prize for the winner, £300 second and £100 third. Two commendations £30 each.

50 longlisted entrants offered publication in our end-of-year print and digital anthology. Those who accept receive a free print copy.

Flash Award judge, Kathryn Aldridge Morris, shortlists to 20 and chooses the winning, second, third, and two commended fictions.

The current Flash Fiction Award round closes Midnight GMT 5 October 2025.

Winners will be announced by 1 November 2025 on our Winners pages.

Enter the Flash Fiction Award here online.

What is Flash Fiction?

A good question, with a suitably brief answer here. But whether you are new to flash fiction or an experienced writer, we recommend the craft guide book Going Short – an invitation to flash fiction by creative writing professor and expert in the flash fiction form, Nancy Stohlman. Published by Ad Hoc Fiction in October 2020 and available worldwide, Going Short recently received a starred review at the prestigious Kirkus Reviews.

Weekly newsletter by Serena Castillo via LinkedIn on her journey being an author and expanding into starting her own publishing empire.

What a twist on networking for creatives? Well this will be the place to be this January 2026..

More details will be posted by the end of October 2025.

First virtual workshop of the Fall hosted by Serena Castillo.

Learn how to develop engaging characters for your stories. Learn how to use tools and skills to use these same characters to move your stories along.

AAHKMBXX42 for 20% annual or monthly website plan.

This online platform helps to provide free resources and courses to help you advance your startup and current business to the next level with templates, courses, and other programs.

MONEY CLASS FOR WOMEN+ BY WOMEN+

LEARN THE TRICKS TO INVESTING!

FUD helps earn some extra cash while working on your writing. This app gives you the chance to do tasks in your free time and earn money in the process!

Kinnected is brought to you by HueCapital. Kinnected recently launched and it is a directory that can help you to advance your career whether you are looking to network within your current profession or looking to network outside of your profession. This new tool is here to help create an easy way to search between industries, services, and locations, with the help of filtering tools such as event type, career level, ethnicity, level of education, age group, member size, and more.

Here is another partnership through Hello Alice with Verizon. They are hosting a workshop to help pivot individuals into career paths of their choice while giving resources and tools to do so.

The Skill Forward program, in partnership with Verizon and edX, is 100% free and connects you with online training, resources, and career services to help you find your next big job opportunity. Through Skill Forward, you receive 12 months of access to over 250 online courses and certifications in a variety of in-demand areas, including AI, business, leadership, business, communication, and more.

New Resources Coming Oct 2025