SILENT MANGA AUDITION 22

Application Opens: 1 November 2024; Deadline: 2 February 2025 (23:59 in your Time zone)

LOCATION: Japan

The SILENT MANGA AUDITION® (SMA22) is the world’s biggest manga audition, exclusively for manga without dialogue. By drawing silent manga, talented international creators can also get the opportunity to join the Japanese manga world. Draw your characters’ expressions full of emotion and heart to work towards your dream debut!

ELIGIBILITY:

The competition is free to enter.

The competition is open to anyone.

The theme of this edition is “Seized with rage”. Tell your story through images alone.

The page count for a single SMA entry is 17 pages or less. Multiple entries are welcome.

Pages MUST BE uploaded as “1 page / 1 image”. For “double page spreads,” please upload each page as “2 separate image files.”

Please prepare the image data of your work according to the format below. (One image file for each page / two-page spread divided into two image files).

Image format: JPG or PNG format

File size: 1 file 2 MB or less

Image file name: Your image files should be labeled with a two digit number in sequential order based on the page number of the image file (Example: page_01.jpg, page_02.jpg, etc.)

Resolution: 300 dpi

BENEFIT:

Grand Prix: 500,000 JPY

Grand Prix Runner-Up: 300,000 JPY

Excellence Award: 100,000 JPY

Excellence Runner-Up: 30,000 JPY

Honourable Mention: 10,000 JPY

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RUTH TITILAYO TECHNICAL & VOCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP 

Application Deadline: 31st October 2024

LOCATION: Nigeria

Ruth Titilayo Foundation is pleased to offer a grant package, awarded to successful candidates who are planning and currently studying single courses supported through an approved Vocational Enterprise Institutions (VEIs) as described by the National Board for Technical Education.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must:

have a secondary school result with at least 4 credits.

either be a student at the time of application or have been registered as a student within the last two years.

Candidates will be assessed:

on academic merit.

based on the information provided in your scholarship application.

You will also need to submit a personal statement, current school result, and two written references from the tutors listed in your application form. You will be shortlisted based on providing the above and any other relevant information.

Complete and SUBMIT the on-line application form on this website. This will include attached copies of your current school result, two reference letters from your tutors, a personal statement, and any supporting documents.

*Email all supporting documents to vocational.grants@ruthtitilayofoundation.org with your Full Name as the subject of the email.

BENEFIT:

The grant consists of:

tuition allowance up to #100,000

maintenance allowance up to #15,000

Further allowances – for example internal travel costs associated with the course of study or research and fieldwork expenses – are paid at the discretion of the Committee

APPLY

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