A whirlwind of a month - here's what brought me comfort

Grab a snack and open up this month's issue.

Happy August! I hope this month brings you joy, ease and creative growth!

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There are 30+ opportunities for creatives in this month’s issue, take a look! And keep scrolling for this month’s letter.

✨ August Deadlines

• ✍🏼 Due 8/10: New Local Space Limited (Kingston) 2023 Curatorial & Art Writing Fellowship

• 🎨 Due 8/11: Bellingham National 2023 Juried Art Exhibition and Awards

• ✍🏼 Due 8/15: Indiana Review 1/2K Prize

• ✍🏼 Opens 8/15: The Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence

• ✍🏼 Due 8/16: Tupelo Press Open Reading Period

• 🎨 Due 8/16: 2024 Oolite Arts Studio Residency Program

• 🎨 Due 8/30: Banff Artist in Residence: Early Career 2024

• 🎨 Due 8/30: 500 Capp Street Artist Residency

• ✍🏼 Due 8/31: Storyknife Writers Retreat (for women writers)

• ✍🏼 Due 8/31: Barthelme Prize for Short Prose

• ✍🏼 Due 8/31: Gulf Coast Prize in Translation

• ✍🏼 Due 8/31: The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing

• ✍🏼 Due 8/31: The Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize

✨ September Deadlines

• ✍🏼 Due 9/1: Brenda M King Prize for Critical Writing in Textiles

• ✍🏼 Due 9/1: Academy of American Poets First Book Award

• ✍🏼 Due 9/1: American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Award

• ✍🏼 Due 9/8: 2024 Oregon Book Awards

• 🎨 Due 9/8: Print Center New York New Voices 2024

• ✍🏼 Due 9/8: 2024 Oregon Book Awards: Graphic Literature Award

• ✍🏼 Due 9/11: The Joyce Awards (for artists of color in major Great Lakes cities)

• 🎨 Due 9/12: Monument Lab Artist Residency program

• 💭 Due 9/14: Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship

• 🎨 Due 9/23: The Clay Cup VI: Call for Entries

• 💭 Due 9/29: New York Public Library 2024-2025 Cullman Center Fellowship

• 🎨 Due 9/30: Minnesota Center for Book Arts Proposals for Virtual Workshops

• 💭 Due 9/30: Acadia National Park Artist-in-Residence Program

👻 October Deadlines

• 🎨 Due 10/1: 2024 Eyebeam Fellowship Open Cal

• 🎨 Due 10/1: Millay Arts Residencies (visual arts/composing/fiction/etc)

• ✍🏼 Due 10/15: Little, Brown Spark New Voices Award (in partnership with the Psychotherapy Networker)

• 🎨 Due 10/25: Loewe Foundation Craft Prize

• 👩🏽‍🎓 Due 10/26: The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

• ✍🏼 Due 10/30: Call for the Indigenous Art Writing Award

👀 Question Corner 👀

This letter will be short and sweet, a little different. While I normally focus on practical, writing and creativity-related topics, this past month was quite a busy and eventful one. It left me with little energy at some points and, also, lots of down time.

So I thought I’d share some of the things that have recently brought me comfort, from movies to cozy games — in case they might be helpful for you, too!