Applications for the IMF Kim Wall Memorial Fund 2025 are now open. The IWMF's Kim Wall Memorial Fund will provide grants to journalists whose work embodies the spirit of Kim's reporting. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Opportunity Details
The grant will fund women or nonbinary reporters covering subculture, broadly defined, and what Kim liked to call "the undercurrents of rebellion." Kim wanted more women to be out in the world, brushing up against life, and the Kim Wall Memorial Fund honors this legacy.
The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF), in partnership with Kim's family and friends, seek to make sure the kinds of stories Kim loved continue to be told through the Kim Wall Memorial Fund. Whether reporting about Cuba's underground market for digital content and culture, how the politics of opportunity played out inside Kampala's emerging Chinatown, or the extent to which women Tamil Tiger combatants in Sri Lanka were failed by the promises of a feminist utopia, Kim introduced us to incredibly interesting people others overlooked. The Memorial Fund helps other journalists with Kim's adventurous spirit chase down these important, underreported stories.
Kim reported from all over the world in her short but accomplished career as an international correspondent. Her reporting appeared in publications including Harper's, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, TIME, Slate, Vice and Guardian. Kim was an IWMF fellow and grantee and received support from the organization in 2016 to report from Uganda and Sri Lanka.
All applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
The IWMF cannot consider time-sensitive proposals. Applications will be reviewed in January and February 2025, and applicants will receive a response no later than the end of February 2025. Grantees will be publicly announced on Kim's birthday, March 23.
Resources
For application tips, please visit the IWMF's website here.
For questions or accessibility/connectivity issues with the application, please email program coordinator, Divya Tewari, at [email protected].
Apply for IWMF Kim Wall Memorial Fund