The World Illustration Awards 2025 Bursary Applications Are Now Open
The AOI, in partnership with the USA-based Directory of Illustration, is delighted to announce that the World Illustration Awards 2025 Bursary Applications are now open.
The Association of Illustrators and Directory of Illustration as WIA delivery partners are offering up to 40 illustrators the opportunity to enter one project into the World Illustration Awards 2025 free of charge.
Please use the form below to apply for a bursary to enter WIA2025.
The bursary is open to illustrators who are experiencing financial hardship and would otherwise not be able to enter the awards at all.
Read the terms and conditions first to check you are eligible to apply. The deadline to apply for a bursary is 24 January 2025.
World Illustration Awards are a year-round celebration of the power and diversity of illustration being made today. Selected entries are shared on the popular @worldillustrationawards Instagram. This is followed by the announcement in May of 500 longlisted projects, and then the release of the 200 shortlisted projects which will be highlighted on the AOI’s website launching in July.
A highlight of the Awards year is the excitement of the winners announcement in September. One New Talent and one Professional Overall winner will be awarded cash prizes and profiled on the AOI website.
This globally-recognised competition has ten industry-relevant categories and is judged by distinguished professionals from the global illustration industry. Commissioners value the Awards for identifying current trends and finding established and undiscovered talent, and illustrators value the connection and sense of community participating brings. The awards assemble an array of creativity and innovation, highlighting diverse approaches to illustration and offering an insight into current practice.
Illustrators, (working individually or as collectives), commissioners, agents and tutors are invited to submit work created, commissioned or published since 1 January 2024, until the deadline into the ten categories of the Awards.
Entries can be submitted until the end of the day 11 February 2025 .
To find out all about the awards, the 10 categories, how to enter, sponsors, prizes and cash awards, judges and much more, visit here.
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