Hello! How has your week been? I celebrated my wedding anniversary with books, and roast chicken. Some kissing, too. May is such an excellent writing month – good for iced coffees and little outside tables. An abundance of prizes and residencies are closing soon, including a literary prize I won a couple of years back and a residency that I was awarded last year. Whatever you’re up to today – writing, books, kissing – I hope it’s marvellous.

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Closing before the end of May (last day to apply after the link):

• Kicking things off with a great one: today’s the last day to apply for the Creative Futures Award, on the theme of ‘wild’. (18th)
  
  

• Poetic Frequencies – a video poetry residency in Heidelberg is also closing today. (18th)
  
  

• Film Hub North’s script development programme, Script Lab, is closing in a couple of days. (20th)
  
  

• Another one for the poets, ignitionpress is closing to poetry pamphlet submissions very soon. (21st)
  
  

• The Art’s Council’s extremely popular Developing Your Creative Practice grants close to applications this coming week. (22nd)
  
  

• The University of Edinburgh is still looking for a writer-in-residence. (23rd)