Our Weird spin on Macy's holiday windows!

Weird artists will transform downtown Durham storefronts into holiday displays to be unveiled during Durham's annual tree lighting celebration.

Grace Arts Center Gallery, Mills River, NC proudly presents the 21st Annual Juried Art Exhibition! All mediums of visual artists with 2D and 3D work accepted. Artists may drop off their work to be judged in person October 26th from 3-6 pm or October 27th from 9am - 12 noon. An Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, October 30th at 6:30 pm with cash prizes & multiple awards including Best Emerging Artist. Our 2025 Juror is Katrina Chenevert, artist and gallery owner in Asheville.

Fees or awards
Submissions are $20 per piece. Max of 2 pieces per artist.

 

RAISE YOUR ZINE! is an annual photography competition organized by THE DOCKS, a cultural association specializing in photographic publishing and promoting emerging authors. The festival serves as a platform to support the development of editorial projects by talented photographers from around the world.

Fees or awards
Prize: Production of a photographic fanzine and exhibition at the festival.

Ten Moir Gallery invites artists worldwide to enter the Sky & Clouds art competition. Submit work inspired by the open sky—whether it's sunrise, stormy weather, surreal cloudscapes, or abstract interpretations of atmosphere and light. All mediums accepted including painting, photography, digital, sculpture, and mixed media. * Best in Show: Featured on homepage + newsletter, interview, certificate * Top winners: Featured in the online exhibition + social media spotlight * Honorable Mentions

Fees or awards
$24 for 3 images : * Best in Show: One winner will receive: * $150 Cash Prize * Featured on the Cover of the Exhibition * Dedicated Social Media Post * Inclusion in Our Newsletter * Free Entry into the Blu Sky Artist Award ($500 Prize)
 

Established to recognise and encourage excellence in the craft of poetry writing and to provide a platform for publication, the Anthology Poetry Competition is open to original and previously unpublished poems in the English language. Entries are invited from poets of all nationalities, living anywhere in the world. There is no restriction on theme or style. Poems submitted should not exceed 40 lines. There is no limit to entries per person. Each submission will require a separate entry.

Fees or awards
Prizes - FIRST: The winner will receive a €1,000 cash prize and the chance to see their work published in a future issue of Anthology. SECOND: €250 THIRD: €150

Submissions are now invited for the Anthology Cover Art Award. Established to foster and support both established and emerging visual artists and provide a platform for publication, the competition is open to multiple genres including painting, printmaking, mixed media, photography and digital media.

Fees or awards
The winner will receive €500 and publication on the cover of – and editorial coverage in – a future issue of Anthology. / Very Early Bird fee – €12 – December – January 2025 Early Bird fee – €15: February 2025 – March 2025 Standard fee – €18: – April-Oct

Artists and photographers are encouraged to submit their best work to the Pretty in Pink Art Competition. An open-themed celebration of the color pink in all its forms. From soft pastels to bold fuchsias, we welcome every interpretation, from cherry blossoms, neon lights to bubblegum. All styles and mediums are welcome to apply.

Fees or awards
Entry fee is $25, awards offered. Win $500 worth of prizes and Cash Award
 

The Doris Betts Fiction Prize, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network, awards the first-prize winner $250 and publication in the North Carolina Literary Review. Finalists will also be considered for publication in the NCLR, and authors will receive $50 to $150, depending on how many stories selected.

Ten Moir Gallery invites invites artists worldwide Sky & Clouds art competition. Submit work inspired by the open sky—whether it's sunrise, stormy weather, surreal cloudscapes, or abstract interpretations of atmosphere and light. All mediums accepted including painting, photography, digital, sculpture, and mixed media. Best in Show: Featured on homepage + newsletter, interview, certificate. Top winners: Featured in the online exhibition + social media spotlight. Honorable Mentions.

Awards
One winner will receive: 

• $150 Cash Prize
• Featured on the Cover of the Exhibition
• Dedicated Social Media Post
• Inclusion in Our Newsletter
• Free Entry into the Blu Sky Artist Award ($500 Prize)

Fees
$24 for 3 images.

The Griffin Museum is pleased to announce its call for the 2026 scholarship for mid career artists, the Richards Family Prize.

We are proud to support emerging, mid-career and professional talents in the field of photography. We support visual artists with dynamic and creative ideas that challenge and progress the art form forward to new heights in vision and technology. This prize is a scholarship that supports mid-career photographers producing work that is creative and original.

• Fees or awards: $4,000 scholarship, a published catalog by Griffin Museum Press, and an exhibition in December 2026.
• City: Winchester, M.A.