Open Call: Critic-in-Residence with Sixty Inches From Center
The Luminary Announces Open Call for Critic In Residence with Sixty Inches From Center
3.03.2026
The Luminary, in partnership with Sixty Inches From Center, is pleased to announce an open call for a Local Critic-in-Residence to participate in a week-long (July 1-7, 2026) paid residency in St. Louis, MO, alongside a traveling writer selected by Sixty.
Rooted in The Luminary’s commitment to art, thought , and action, this residency supports arts writers and cultural critics who are not only invested in interpretation and analysis, but in how ideas move, circulate, and take form in the world. We encourage applicants who think expansively about criticism as a creative, public, and material practice – whether through essays, print ephemera, DIY publishing, zines, and experimental forms, or other modes of distribution beyond traditional platforms.
The selected CIR receives a $1,000 honorarium, paid travel and housing, publication opportunities (including with Sixty and a print zine with Melon Press), access to programs, archives, and our risograph studio, introductions to local artists and organizers, and a hosted community share-out dinner.
The program invites writers who are curious, rigorous, community-minded, and invested in building critical dialogue with and beyond St. Louis as a site of inquiry and exchange.
Please note this open call is for local writers within a 40-mile radius of the St. Louis city center.
Learn more and apply now here.
About Sixty Inches From Center
Sixty Inches From Center (Chicago, IL) is a worker-led organization and publishing platform that produces collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in Chicago and the Midwest. We are a collective of arts workers, writers, editors, artists, curators, librarians, and archivists who promote and advocate for the preservation of culture and the artists who create it while prioritizing Indigenous, diasporic, queer, and disability communities of our region.