The NMB 2023 Festival Selections announcement, originally scheduled to occur on March 21, 2023, will now occur instead on March 28, 2023 due in part to the increased number of received submissions. The submission period began December 21, 2022 and ended February 19, 2023.
 
The current round produced 337 submissions by 180 unique applicants from 34 states and 18 countries.

The travel scholarship application remains open through March 31.