The Ann Snitow Prize is a $12,500 yearly award for a feminist intellectual and activist, living and working in the United States, who has consistently exhibited the qualities that led Ann to be so admired and cherished.
Donor Name: The Ann Snitow Prize
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Award
Deadline: 07/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $12,500
Details:
The Ann Snitow Prize recognizes a person of extraordinary vision, originality, generosity, and accomplishment who is currently engaged in work that combines feminist intellectual and/or artistic pursuits with social justice activism.
At this time the Prize committee is only considering nominees living and working in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Examples of work samples include but are not limited to:
- Fliers, handouts, pamphlets, video/audio footage, and other records of groups, projects, or events the nominee has organized
- Syllabi for courses taught inside or outside an institution
- Links to a personal website of the nominee, or to relevant audio/video work
- Published or unpublished writing (under the maximum 20 pages total for all work samples; excerpts are acceptable)
- Images of artwork or performances.
Funding Information
The Prize is neither need-based nor project-based. The award of $12,500 may be used however the recipient wishes.
Eligibility Criteria
The ideal candidate for the Ann Snitow Prize is a feminist intellectual and activist, living and working in the United States, who has consistently exhibited the qualities that led Ann to be so admired and cherished. The awardee is:
- A feminist, broadly defined: someone for whom feminism goes beyond a movement for rights and equality to a vision of a world without social domination or economic exploitation, a world of security, freedom, and pleasure.
- An intellectual and/or artist who thinks with rigor, flexibility, and originality, and who inspires and nurtures the intellectual and creative best in others.
- A radical social justice activist who practices generosity, integrity, and perseverance—and is effective, whether in instigating new formations; mobilizing and connecting people; and/or sustaining and growing campaigns, projects, groups, and institutions.
- Prizewinners may be academics, independent scholars, educators, writers or artists, full- or part-time volunteer or paid organizers—or currently engaged in any combination of intellectual and activist feminist work.
Details
Nominations are submitted via email and should include the following:
- A 1 to 2 page cover letter describing the nominee
- A CV or resume of the nominee
- Work samples from the nominee (1 to 2 short writing samples; samples of activist work; or, if appropriate, samples of artwork. If you submit a video, include a few-sentence introduction & a link). Please include a maximum of 20 pages total for all work sample materials combined.
- Submissions must be in English. They welcome submissions from Puerto Rico or for nominees who work in the U.S. but do so primarily in a language other than English. However, to give them a fair chance with the jury, please translate and/or subtitle all submitted materials into English.
Who selects the winner?
Each year the Organizing Committee invites a different group of judges to read the nominations and select the winner. In assembling a jury, they seek to represent the diversity of feminism and the many movements with which it intersects—in terms of age, race, gender, sexual identity, geography; locations inside and outside the academy; intellectual and artistic pursuits and disciplines; political and organizing experiences; and self-definition as feminists and activists beyond feminism.
For more information, visit The Ann Snitow Prize.
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