Barbara Deming Memorial Fund: Money for Women

The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund makes small artist support grants of $500–$1,500 to individual feminist women in the arts who are citizens with primary residence in the U.S. and Canada.

The Fund welcomes applications from artists and writers who exhibit high quality and originality in their work; identify themselves as living in a woman's body; use feminism as their central interpretive lens; value both personal and political changes that stand against the limitations and controls exerted against women and aim at optimum freedom and agency for women; validate differences that overlap with gender such as race, ethnicity and class; and express an inclusive vision of social justice while focusing on justice for women. The Fund is interested in funding projects which applicants have begun or are well underway, and for which they have substantial work to show.

The Fund does not award film, video, theatre, dance, music, or performance projects. Scripts and musical compositions are also not eligible. The Fund does not award work which is or will be self-published, does not give loans or provide money for educational assistance, work on dissertations, or research (except research to be used in writing a book), and does not provide funds for the cost of editing services, business projects, or emergency money for people in need. The Fund rarely gives money to groups. Fiction & Visual Arts Awards are available in even years (apply January 1–31). Non-Fiction and Poetry Awards are available in odd years (apply January 1–31). Applicants will be notified about grant decisions approximately five months after the deadline date. Applications have a $25 fee; fee waivers are available upon request to [email protected] during the open submission period.