Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from Black and/or Indigenous identifying writers with a chapbook in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 1, 2026.
The Light Bill Incubator Microgrant will award $500 to one Black and/or Indigenous writer with a chapbook in progress to support the completion of said project. The winner will also be invited to submit their manuscript for potential publication. One writer will be selected as the recipient of this year’s grant.
Applicants may apply for any genre; however, the proposed project must be a chapbook-length project, meaning the planned final version will be fewer than 48 pages.
To apply, please include a sample of the chapbook in progress along with a brief (no more than 500 words) artist/personal statement. There is no fee to apply.
