Emerging Artist Award: Literary Arts
Kentucky Arts Council
Kentucky Arts Council is seeking literary art applications for emerging artist awards
Reference No.
RFP-2025-3128
Category
Education/Training
Due Date
March 15th, 2026
Description
The Emerging Artist Award is a competitive $1,000 award given to working, professional Kentucky artists who are in the early years of their career (typically within the first 10 years of their professional artistic life) and who have achieved a level of excellence and creativity in their work. Emerging Artist Awards are unrestricted and may be used in any way to enhance the artist's career. No matching funds are required, and no specific project has to be carried out with the funds.
The FY2027 Emerging Artist Award program is open for applications in the following Literary Arts subdisciplines fiction, creative nonfiction, play/screenwriting, and poetry.
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