How to redirect your energy

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I am finding it hard to believe that it’s JUNE.

This year, I really hit the ground running. I got into two separate writing programs (one retreat, one workshop) that happened within a week of each other. I handed in three big applications for opportunities. It feels like things are slowing down. But I still have to make sure I have assignments on my calendar for the near future! (Because, you know, bills).

I got a couple of rejections from literary magazines in May, but we keep going!

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There are 25+ opportunities for creatives in this month’s issue, take a look! And keep scrolling for this month’s letter.

✨ June Deadlines

• ✍🏼 Due 6/4: The Word Editor-Writer Mentorship

• ✍🏼 Due 6/5: Blue Stoop Fall 2023 Teaching Proposals

• 🎨 Open 6/5: The de Young Open 2023

• 🎬 Due 6/6: William Greaves Research and Development Fund (for filmmakers/storytellers)

• 🪑 Due 6/12: 2023 Vilcek Foundation Prizes for Creative Promise in Design (for designers born outside the U.S.)

• 📸 Due 6/14: JSG Fellowship for Photography (for New York State photographers)

• 💭 Due 6/15: LA ESCUELA Call for Proposals

• 🎬 Due 6/15: The 2023 Georgia List (un-produced scripts, Georgia-based)

• 🩰 Due 6/16: Glendale, AZ Performing Arts Grants

• ✍🏼 Due 6/16: Kelsey Street Press 2023 QTBIPOC Prize

• 🎨 Due 6/19: Bryan Artist in Residence

• 🎬 Due 6/20: BIPOC Filmmaker Grant

• 💭 Due 6/23: Grants for Artists’ Progress (for Washington State artists)

• 🎬 Due 6/30: Leigh Weimers Emerging Artists 2023

• 🎨 Due 6/30: 2024 Dieu Donné Workspace Residency

• 🎨 Due 6/30: Laura Patricia Calle Grant (for mural artists and teams)

• 📸 Due 6/30: Diversify Photo/Pulitzer Center Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant

• 💭 Due 6/30: New York Public Library Martin Duberman Visiting Fellowship

• 🎨 Due 6/30: Wave Farm Radio Art Fellowship 2023-2024

• 🎨 Due 6/30: The Punky Aloha Scholarship

✨ July Deadlines

• ✍🏼 Opens 7/1: Storyknife Writers Retreat (for women writers)

• 🎨 Due 7/12: Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists

• 🎨 Due 7/12: Penland School of Craft Resident Artist Program

• 🎨 Due 7/15: UCross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists (and one for writers)

• ✍🏼 Due 7/15: 2023 Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers: Fiction

• 🎨 Due 7/16: Field Projects Gallery Ceramic Residency

• 📸 Due 7/19: En Foco Nueva Luz Study Center Commissioning Fund 2024

• ✍🏼 Due 7/31: AWP HBCU Fellowship Program

• 🎨 Due 7/31: Red Rock Review Literary Journal Cover Art Submissions

✨ Classes/Events

• 7/12: (APPLICATION REQUIRED)

• 7/22: Mindfully Meeting the Inner Critic

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This month I’m thinking about energy in a creative practice. What do we give the most energy to? What requires our energy? How do we redirect it when things don’t go how we expected?

When I talked to Virginia Jaramillo, an artist who has been making work for seven decades, it was clear that she was protective of her energy. I mean that in the sense that she gave her art her full focus — even while the were so many factors against her.