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The Regional Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University is launching an open call for the position of Research Chair on Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia. This exciting role provides the opportunity and scope for an emerging to mid-career scholar to help shape research trajectories on refugees and displacement in the region, to play a pivotal role in advocating for protection and support for displaced people, and to develop innovative curricula which…

The Objectifs Short Film Incubator is an initiative presented by Objectifs that focuses on developing short film scripts. The programme is open to Southeast Asian filmmakers working with moving images, and will provide five selected participants with mentorship and a valuable support network as they work on their scripts. After the workshop, all selected participants’ scripts will be reviewed by the mentors and a cash prize of SGD$1,000 will be awarded to one of the participants/teams for the most promising…

BAM (Buddhist art meditations) is an online journal for exchanging ideas on connections between creative and Buddhist practice. It mainly showcases original, personal, creative interpretations of “Buddhist Art”. Who may submit? We welcome friends from all over the world to connect with us. Submissions may be from Buddhists or non-Buddhists, professional or non-professional artists. What to submit? Participation calls for personal interpretations of “Buddhist Art” in the form of art works and Creative writing. In other words, creative works that…

The Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship program offers the opportunity to three scholars to spend up to three months conducting research using the Southeast Asian and particularly the Indonesian special collections at Leiden University Libraries. The Lingling Wiyadharma Fellow is expected to contribute to the activities of the Scaliger Institute and to give a public lecture. The fellow is also expected to publish the outcome and results of his or her research in a scholarly publication. Fellows from ‘low- and middle-income’ (LMI)…

Living Arts International (LAI) is inviting applications for the South-South Arts Fellowships 2022. We are launching this fellowship as our pilot international program. We are acutely aware of the limited support available for nurturing wider and deeper connections among cultural workers within the Global South. In this context, the South-South Arts Fellowships 2022 seek to support individuals/collectives/teams or groups to build initiatives that enable long-term professional networks, alliances and collaborations among cultural workers and artists/creative practitioners living and working in…

In conjunction with Gaudy Boy’s April 1, 2022 publication of Jhani Randhawa's TIME REGIME, the winner of the Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize, SUSPECT is holding the 8th Singapore Poetry Contest with a call for submissions inspired by the title of this extraordinary book of poems. ”What is the gender of leisure, of music? What is the performance of time? What is the preservation of a different kind of heart from the plush cab of a truck taking slow turns…

Epigram Books and Storytel are pleased to announce the creation of a S$10,000 annual short story competition for horror stories. The Storytel Epigram Horror Prize (SEHP) for 2022 is now open to all Singapore residents, aged 18 years and above. The closing date for submission is 30 May 2022. Manuscripts must be between 4,000 and 7,000 words with a fictional horror genre, including but not limited to ghost stories, dark fantasy, cosmic terror, goth, industrial and weird fiction. The winning…

The National Youth Film Awards (NYFA) is a national award that celebrates youths who have excelled across the various aspects of filmmaking – be it content creation and production, script writing, animation, or screenplay writing. It seeks to instill a greater appreciation of independent films, fuel the passion for filmmaking, and generates opportunities for further development for these emerging talents by connecting them with industry partners and helping them gain greater visibility, be it for festivals or commercial opportunities. Now…