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A YEYA resource
Your story is worth funding. We're here to help you claim it.
We gather grants, fellowships, residencies, and funding opportunities curated for writers, filmmakers, photographers, and creative entrepreneurs who are too busy making work to hunt for money.
No more scrolling feeds or missing deadlines. We do the research so you can spend your limited time applying, not searching.
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We search every Wednesday
Every week we comb through hundreds of foundation sites, arts councils, and fellowship programs, and verify what is open, what it pays, and when it closes.
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We organize by deadline
We sort by date and deadline priority, matched to the profile you filled out at signup, so you see what needs you now and what you can plan for next. There is nothing for you to search or filter.
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We send Thursday's digest
Every Thursday we send the weekly curated newsletter, with deadlines, amounts, and time estimates, organized so you can plan to apply.
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You plan to apply
Open the email, pick your deadlines, and block real time to apply. The order is already done for you. Do not miss a thing.
The Newsletter
Funding finds you.
StoryStake is not a searchable grants platform. It is a newsletter based subscription. We organize opportunities by date and deadline priority and send them straight to your inbox weekly, so you can plan to apply. Free members get one opportunity a week. Subscribers get the full weekly curated newsletter. StoryStake does not ask for more of your attention. It gives your attention back.
Your intake profile tells us your identities, your focus, and your stage in the creative process. We use it to curate your newsletter, because your story deserves to be funded as loudly as anyone else's.
In
Your inbox
Women & Lesbians
Grants, fellowships, and residencies curated for women writers, filmmakers, photographers, and creative entrepreneurs, including opportunities that specifically center lesbian voices.
We curate funding for BIPOC creatives across every discipline, from emerging artist grants to major fellowships and incubator programs built with you in mind, and send it by deadline.
Grants, fellowships, and funds built specifically for Black writers, filmmakers, photographers, musicians, and entrepreneurs, curated and sent while there is still time to apply.
Fellowships, residencies, and grants for LGBTQIA+ storytellers and entrepreneurs, including organizations that specifically serve the lesbian community, organized by deadline.
There is no database to dig through. The newsletter does the organizing, so the closest deadline is always in front of you first.
Closest deadline first, every week
Deadlines, amounts, and time estimates up front
Apply this week vs plan for later, clearly split
Direct application links, we do not make you hunt
Built so you do not miss a thing
Thursday digest
Every Thursday we send a clean, scannable email with this week's opportunities, organized by deadline priority so you can plan to apply and plan your hours realistically.
Curated to your profile: identities, focus, and stage
Sorted by deadline priority and application time
"Apply this weekend" vs "start planning" sections
Direct application links, we do not make you hunt
We ask for your feedback at the end of every digest
Membership
Invest in your story.
We keep StoryStake affordable because we know what it means to be a creative doing the work before the world catches on.
Whether you direct, write, shoot, compose, style, or build, if you are creating on the side while the world waits for you to go full-time, we made this for you.
Filmmakers
Narrative, documentary, short
Grants, finishing funds, lab fellowships, and festival development support.
Writers
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplay
Fellowships, residencies, book grants, and emerging writer awards.
Photographers
Documentary, editorial, fine art
Project grants, artist residencies, and publication support.
Fashion Creatives
Designers, stylists, wardrobe artists
Designer grants, stylist fellowships, incubator programs, and fashion industry development funding.
Musicians
Composers, producers, recording artists
Recording grants, touring support, and commissions.
Creative Entrepreneurs
Builders, founders, curators
Small business grants, incubator programs, and startup funding rooted in storytelling.
Join us
Get the Thursday digest. Apply this weekend.
Every Thursday we send the week's opportunities, organized by deadline and time estimated, straight to your inbox so you can plan to apply. Eliminate the search. Your first month is $1.
A YEYA resource. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. $12/month after your first month.
Feedback
How are we doing?
We ask for your feedback because StoryStake exists to serve you, and we can only get better if you tell us what is working and what is not. This goes directly to the team.
🌍A portion of every StoryStake membership goes toward climate justice.