Emerging Art Foundation Art Writing Prize
Closing date 31 August 2026
The Emerging Art Foundation’s Art Writing Prize is a grant of £3,000 made to recognise, support, and bring into the public domain work that expands understandings of the relationship between art making and the practice of writing.
The Prize understands the term ‘art writing’ to include forms of writerly practice that hold a central concern with the condition and possible forms of art making. It therefore encompasses writing that is about art — essays, reviews, criticism, fiction — as well as visual art which incorporates forms of writing, with submissions encouraged from artists, curators, art historians and critics, as well as other interdisciplinary practitioners. The scheme is particularly interested in submissions which demonstrate innovative or experimental approaches to form and/or engage different modes of witnessing, activation, or inquiry, as well as writing which opens dialogues with different modes of viewing, making, and remembering that might help shift expectations of the experience we identify as art.
The scheme is intended to benefit art writers at a critical juncture of their careers and to support practitioners who already demonstrate a capacity to produce work of an exceptional level but require external support for the development and dissemination of their practice.
Submissions may combine images and words, but texts must be written in English and should not exceed 12,000 words (submissions of a much shorter length are encouraged).
Submissions must be emailed to [email protected] in the form of a MS Word document or PDF. Entrants must also provide a CV, contact details, and a brief biographical statement of no more than 400 words which situates the submission in relation to their wider practice.
Applications may be accompanied by additional photographs or other images in the form of PDF or JPEG files.
If material has been submitted for another prize or grant scheme, this must be declared in the application.
For more information visit the Emerging Art Foundation website.