The Emerging Art Foundation is now accepting entries for the Art Writing Prize 2025.

One grant of £3,000 will be made rewarding excellence and innovation in the field of art writing. The grant will provide financial assistance for the beneficiary to help sustain their practice and assist in the public dissemination of their work.

Our judges for the 2025 edition of the Art Writing Prize are writer and Professor Maria Fusco, artist and writer Helen Marten and Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Bengi Ünsal.

The Art Writing Prize seeks to discover and celebrate innovative forms of art writing. The term ‘art writing’ refers to 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 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.

Applicants must be resident in the UK and over the age of 18.

The deadline for applications will be midnight on 31st August 2025. To apply and for further details, please visit: https://emergingartfoundation.org/art-writing-prize

The Emerging Art Foundation was established in 2024 (charity no.1206815) to foster and promote the creation and appreciation of the arts in the UK.