Awards, Fellowships, Professional Development
American Journalism Review: Awards and Fellowships
http://www.ajr.org/awards1.asp
A searchable database of grants, awards and fellowships compiled by American Journalism Review magazine. The AJR site also includes links to journalism organizations, media news, listings of professional organizations and writing aids.
Journalismjobs.com
http://www.journalismjobs.com
Along with training opportunities and job listings, this career site also has good info on fellowships and awards, updated regularly.
Poynter.org: Seminars
http://www.poynter.org/seminar
Search this listing of courses run by the St. Petersburg, Fla., based journalism training school. Seminars take place in St. Pete and around the country through the National Writers Workshop series.
TRAINING PROGRAMS
The Banff Centre Creative Nonfiction and Cultural Journalism Program
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=269
A monthlong residency for nonfiction writers to develop a major essay, memoir, or feature article. Applicants are usually established journalists but writers with less experience have been accepted to the program based on merit.
NEA Arts Journalism Institutes
http://www.nea.gov/national/aji/Programs.html
In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts instituted its first training programs for arts journalists in the areas of dance, classical music and theater.
Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/
Harvard's Nieman Foundation runs several professional development programs on narrative writing, including the annual Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. High-profile authors such as Tracy Kidder and Susan Orlean often participate in the conference, which draws about 1,000 journalists nationally and internationally.
The O'Neill Critics Institute
http://www.oneilltheatercenter.org/
This critical training program partners with the Eugene O'Neill professional theater to help arts journalists write about theater. OCI fellows as participate in a two-week workshop, running concurrently with the O'Neill Playwrights Conference.
USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship Program
http://ascweb.usc.edu/asc.php?pageID=246
Arts journalism fellowship designed to give mid-career writers the chance to interact with artists and other arts journalists outside the newsroom culture through a three-week residency in Los Angeles.
WRITING AWARDS
Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, Bellingham Review
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~bhreview
Offered annually for unpublished work on any subject and in any style. First Prize: $1,000.
The Dorothy Churchill Cappon Creative Nonfiction Award, New Letters.
http://www.newletters.org
New Letters is an international magazine of writing and art seeking unpublished nonfiction on any topic. First prize: $1,000.
Felix Morley Journalism Competition, Institute for Humane Studies
http://www.theihs.org/subcategory.php/41.html?menuid=4
Contest is open to writers 25 years of age or younger or full-time students. Submissions are judged based on writing ability, potential to succeed, and an appreciation of liberty.
John Guyon Nonfiction Prize, Crab Orchard Review
http://www.siu.edu/~crborchd/dyer.html
Entries must be previously unpublished, original work written in English by a United States citizen or permanent resident. Prize is $1,500.
The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists
http://www.livawards.org
Three $10,000 awards will be presented for the best of print, online or broadcast journalism in three categories: local, national and international affairs. Journalists must be under the age of 35 and work must have appeared in a U.S. media outlet.
Top college critic competition
http://www.movies.com/cca
Prize awarded annually to the best film review by a college journalist. Three finalists will attend the Ebert & Roeper Film Festival at Sea, a four-day cruise in the Bahamas with critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper. The winner will attend a live taping of the Ebert & Roeper show, and the winning review will be posted on Movies.com. Sponsored by the College Critics Association and Movies.com
George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/nathan/
The annual award recognizes the best American theater criticism. The prize is $10,000. Submissions are welcome in a variety of forms, including books, magazines, newspapers, broadcast and electronic media.
Rogers Communication Literary Nonfiction Contest, PRISM international
http://prism.arts.ubc.ca/contests/index.htm
$500 prize is awarded annually. Entries must be original, unpublished material, not under consideration elsewhere.
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