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The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund – Money for Women is sponsored by Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.. Small artist support grants to individual feminist women in the arts who are citizens with primary residence in the U. S.
and Canada. This fund supports poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, visual artists, and mixed-genre artists whose work is feminist-centered.
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BARBARA DEMING MEMORIAL FUND, INC In my life I have been helped as a writer to do my work. I think it’s fair that I help others. Barbara Deming, 1959.
Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Over 750 creative women have received grants since 1985. Founded in 1975 by writer and social justice activist Barbara Deming, Money for Women is the oldest ongoing feminist granting agency in the US and Canada.
Grants from the foundation give monetary support and encouragement to feminist writers and visual artists who identify as women, cis-women, trans-women, and/or nonbinary. The Fund relies on a volunteer Board of Directors and carefully chosen judges who collaborate in making awards. While other grant sources have come and gone, Money for Women is now in its sixth decade – still feminist and still willing to take risks.
Joining the ranks of admired past recipients gave me hope that I could fulfill my creative vision. – Yalitza Ferreras, fiction, 2016 With the support from the Deming Fund, I pushed through a project I had been working on for more than a decade. — Khadijah Queen, nonfiction, 2019 I was able to purchase professional, archival supplies that allowed for a much stronger outcome for my project.
—Holly Wong, visual art, 2006 The award is not simply money to work, but confidence to move forward and meet the world. —Maureen Cummins, visual art, 2001 Just when I wanted to give up, the grant was a statement of faith in me and my project that motivated me to power on. I was, and am, so grateful.
— Jennifer Lunden, nonfiction, 2015 The fund’s support early in my career was a much-needed vote of confidence. — Yalitza Ferreras, fiction, 2016 The grant validated me as an emerging feminist writer. —Julie Marie Wade, nonfiction, 2012 Receiving the grant included me in a lineage of queer feminist writers who have always depended upon mutual aid to complete our work.
—Melissa Febos, nonfiction, 2013 I’m grateful that the Deming Foundation empowers the voices of so many diverse women writers. —Elise Atchison, fiction, 2013
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Feminist writers and visual artists who identify as women (cis, trans, or nonbinary) who are citizens or primary residents of the US or Canada. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $500 - $1,500. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund – Money for Women is funded by Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Yes — this listing is flagged as national in scope, so applicants across the U.S. may apply, subject to the sponsor's other eligibility criteria.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.