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Scenario

How grant rejection affects creative self-worth

I applied for fifteen grants this year and got rejected from all of them and I am starting to think my work is not good enough or important enough to deserve funding

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional gatekeeping systems conflate artistic merit with bureaucratic compatibility and resource scarcity.

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Mura
Mura works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

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Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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