Awards and Grants

To attend ScienceWriters2025, taking place Nov 7-9 in Chicago, the National Association of Science Writers is offering Indigenous journalists and communicators grants up to $2,000 for travel costs, accommodations, caregiving and more, plus complimentary registration and one-year NASW Membership. Apply by Sep 3.

The National Association of Science Writers is providing grants up to $1200 to attend ScienceWriters2025 in Chicago, Nov 7-9, in person, or up to $200 to attend virtually. Appy by Aug 28.

The Society of Environmental Journalists' annual awards honor the best environmental journalism in 10 categories. $500 for first-place winners; $250 for second-place winners in all categories. Includes a Student Reporting category and $10,000 for the "best of the best." 2025 Deadlines: Sep 1 (regular); Sep 16 (late).

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ short fiction contest will be judged by renowned American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. No entry fee. Cash prizes. Deadline is Sep 30, 2025.

This grant of up to £20k, a collaboration between One World Media, Pulitzer Centre and the Financial Times, is for an experienced filmmaker who wants to explore, through a short documentary, underreported stories about health in the global south. Deadline: Aug 20, 2025.

The Center for Cooperative Media offers 10 awards up to $15,000 each for short-term civic science media projects in the U.S. that can bridge the gap between scientists, media and communities. Includes hands-on coaching. Deadline: Aug 31, 2025.

The Global Heat Health Information Network, in partnership with Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, is launching a global photography competition to showcase the real impacts of extreme heat, and the ways communities around the world are responding to it. Deadline: Aug 29, 2025.

If you’re a journalist in the US or Canada and you think a story you’ve worked on would make a good movie or episode of a TV show, submit two nominations by the earlybird deadline of Aug 3 or one nomination by the final deadline of Sep 1, 2025. Info sessions available on July 23, 25 and an Aug date TBD.

Run by the Wits Centre for Journalism and the African Investigative Journalism Conference, this award recognizes outstanding investigative reporting from across Africa. Enter by Jul 15 for the chance to win cash and a trip to the AIJC conference, Nov 5-7, 2025 in Johannesburg.

The 2025 Central European Initiative and the South East Europe Media Organisation award seeks to highlight the role of investigative journalism in raising public awareness of critical issues such as human rights violations, social discrimination, corruption, gender inequality, environmental threats. Cash prizes. Enter by Jul 15.