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How to organize your deadlines and applications

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Jun 05, 2024
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Header illustration by Ludi Leiva.

Oh hi! Wishing you a productive June, BUT ALSO, a restful one.

Keep scrolling for 20+ opportunities for creatives, and this monthโ€™s letter.

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๐Ÿ˜Ž June Deadlines ๐Ÿ˜Ž

๐Ÿ’ญ Due 6/15: Open call: Exhibiting Artistsโ€™ Books convening

๐ŸŽจ Due 6/16: APAture Showcase Application (Asian Pacific American emerging artists)

๐ŸŽจ Due 6/30: Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists

โœ๐Ÿผ Due 6/30: YesYes Books 2024 Pamet River Prize

๐Ÿ’ญ Due 6/30: 2025 Centrum Artists-In-Residence program

โœ๐Ÿผ Due 6/30: The Los Angeles Review writing awards

โœ๐Ÿผ Due 6/30: Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction

๐Ÿ– July Deadlines ๐Ÿ–

โœ๐Ÿผ Due 7/1: Peters Valley Fall Guest Artist Residency Program

โœ๐Ÿผ Due 7/2: Bellevue Literary Review Prizes (for writing on health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body)

๐ŸŽจ Due 7/2: Penland Resident Artist Program

๐ŸŽจ Due 7/4: Franklin Furnace Fund โ€“ 2024โ€“25 XENO Prize for Artistsโ€™ Books

๐ŸŽจ Due 7/5: The VH AWARD (for emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia)

๐ŸŽจ Due 7/6: The Max Thelen Studio Residency (California artists)

๐ŸŽจ Due 7/11: City of Walnut Creek Public Art RFQ

๐ŸŽจ Due 7/15: UCross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists

๐ŸŽจ Due 7/15: Loghaven Artist Residency (writing, visual arts, dance, theater, music composition, architecture, interdisciplinary work)

โœ๐Ÿผ Due 7/15: Unleash Work-in-Progress (WIP) Award 2024

๐ŸŽจ Due 7/16: New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships

๐ŸŽจ Due 7/20: Queer | Art | Mentorship (film, performance, literature, visual art)

โœ๐Ÿผ Due 7/21: Wave Hill 2025 Sunroom Project Space

๐Ÿ August Deadlines ๐Ÿ

๐ŸŽจ Due 8/1: Seattle Art Museum Betty Bowen Award (Northwest artists)

๐ŸŽฅ Due 8/1: Lynn Shelton โ€œOf a Certain Ageโ€ Grant (for individual woman, non-binary, and/or transgender U.S. filmmaker, age 39 or older, who is working on their first narrative feature)

๐ŸŽจ Due 8/12: Alternative Exposure Grants (Bay Area visual arts projects)

๐Ÿ’ญ Applications opening 8/30: The Huntington Museum Fellowships


Iโ€™ve done a similar version of this newsletter topic in the past, but it feels like a good time to do another one. Time management, and energy management, have been on my mind as I prepare for a summer focused on writing, research and learning.

These approaches have helped me recently, so Iโ€™m sharing them in case they resonate with you, too.

Notion: Previously, I used a physical planner to plan out both my deadlines and personal schedule. But in the last couple of years, I started using Notion for my freelance deadlines and project ideas. You can find free templates (some cost money) to use, and I currently utilize a few to me my keep notes, deadlines and invoicing information organized. I needed something to help me track my freelance work year by year, and Notion does the trick. If you donโ€™t know where to start, the templates are also a good source of inspiration.

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Google Doc Tools: There are some new (to me) tools in Google Docs now. When you make a blank document, you can choose from smart tools like โ€œReview Tracker,โ€ which I find useful as a visual for your progress. The columns are โ€œreviewer,โ€ โ€œstatusโ€ and โ€œnotes,โ€ but you can change the column names. I find the โ€œstatusโ€ button especially useful, because give me a quick glance as to where I stand. Itโ€™s also satisfying to change the project status to โ€œdoneโ€ โ€” or whichever word you use to signal when a project is โ€œcompleted.โ€

Boomerang (Gmail): I love to schedule emails. If I know I need to draft an email, or a follow-up, but I donโ€™t want it to go out immediately, I use Boomerang to schedule it for the next morning or a few days from now. For example, if I finish drafting a pitch, but itโ€™s late at night, I just paste it into an email for its intended editor and schedule it for the morning. That way, I donโ€™t have to worry about WHERE I left my notes.

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