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.

Therefore, applicants must:

• be a resident in the UK,

• have published no more than 10 pieces of writing in print or online prior to their submission (this does not include personal blogs or websites),

• or have exhibited their work in no more than 5 solo exhibitions (this does not include personal blogs or websites).

The number of good applications is likely to exceed the funding available, so the trustees use the following criteria to help them in making decisions on how best to allocate funding.

Work that is of exceptional quality and of broad interest and relevance to current discourses in contemporary art.

• Work that expands understandings about interactions between art and art writing by demonstrating an innovative approach to questions of form and medium.

• Work which shows a commitment to interdisciplinary approaches.

• Work which addresses wide reaching questions around the major challenges of our time.

• Work which has the potential to cultivate broader public interest in hybrid forms of contemporary art, expanding traditional modes of art making and/or writing.

The deadline for applications will be in September 2024.

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 submission@emergingartfoundation.org 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.

Applications will be considered by a selection panel composed of field-leading artists, art historians, curators, and art critics. The selection panel for the 2024 inaugural edition of the Prize will be announced in summer 2024.

The panel will announce the winners of the 2024 edition of the Art Writing Prize toward the end of the year.