Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship Grant

Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Amount: Unspecified amount in in-kind support
Last Updated: April 03, 2026

Summary

The Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship, established in 2016 and awarded by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, supports LGBTQ+ writers across genres. This competitive fellowship offers a fully-funded two-week residency at Mt. San Angelo, providing applicants with private accommodations and communal meals. The fellowship aims to foster creativity and diversity within the arts community, encouraging both emerging and established artists to apply and share their unique perspectives.

Overview

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts provides time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity is essential. Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Writers in any genre who self-identify as LGBTQ+VCCA encourages applications to Mt. San Angelo from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives. Emerging and established artists may apply in the following disciplines: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting and screenwriting, performance, film and video, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, music composition, and cross-disciplinary art. Applicants who are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral programs are eligible to apply.Please apply in only one discipline that most closely relates to the project you are proposing to work on at VCCA supplemented by the work samples you will submit. Artists may be in residence at Mt. San Angelo only once every two years; returning Fellows must wait to reapply accordingly.

Ineligibility

Projects that involve pure academic scholarship are not accepted.Residencies may not be deferred beyond the scheduling period for which you were accepted.