The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) accepts applications from women or nonbinary journalists with one or more years' experience for the Kim Wall Memorial Fund [1], established in honor of the award-winning Swedish journalist who covered important, underreported stories from around the world.

Whether reporting about Cuba’s underground market for digital content and culture, or how the politics of opportunity played out inside Kampala’s emerging Chinatown, Kim Wall (1987-2017) introduced us to incredibly interesting people whom others have overlooked.

Created in her honor in 2018, the Kim Wall Memorial Fund awards $5,000 reporting grants annually to 2-3 women and nonbinary journalists covering subcultures, broadly defined, and what Kim liked to call “the undercurrents of rebellion.”

Eligible journalists can apply November 3 – December 7, 2025. 

Wall was one of a team of reporters who won first place [2] in the Explanatory Reporting category of SEJ's 17th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment, for the Marshall Islands Project.