Deanne Hupfield, Fancy Shawl Dancer. CNAL/RCAA Conference 2015.
For 47 years, EVENT has published the very best in contemporary new poetry and prose. We are one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines, and welcome submissions written in English from around the world. Each issue of EVENT includes high quality fiction, poetry, non-fiction and book reviews, and we feature emerging and established writers side-by-side in our pages.
Genre: Creative Non-Fiction.
The Malahat Review invites writers to enter the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize.
The contest is open to Canadian and international writers anywhere in the world.
Deadline: August 1, 2024 at 11:59pm PDT
One winner will receive a prize of CAD $1,250 and be published in the magazine's winter 2023 issue #225.
Entries accepted via Submittable only. (See below for instructions.)
The CBC Poetry Prize is open between April 1 and June 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET annually.
The winner receives $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and their work will be published on CBC Books.
Four finalists each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and their work is also published on CBC Books.
Who can enter?
The mandate of the PEI Arts Grants is to support, assist, encourage and represent the arts community in the province. Funding is available to Prince Edward Island artists through a juried grant application process.
The requirements are different for each Arts Grant stream. Your application will be reviewed by your peers and funding will be allocated based on the quality of your application. You must complete a separate application for each grant.
Creation Grant
Nova Writes (formerly the Atlantic Writing Competition) is an annual program designed to honour work by unpublished writers in Nova Scotia. Entry is open to writers unpublished in the category of writing they wish to enter. Prizes are presented at the Celebration of Emerging Writers in the spring.
Small artist support grants ( $500 - $2000 ) to individual feminist women in the arts who are citizens with primary residence in the U.S and Canada. We are interested in funding projects which you have begun or are well underway, and for which you have substantial work to show.
We welcome applications from women artists and writers (cis and transgendered) who:
Launched by artist Vivek Shraya, the VS. Arts Grant aims to offer financial support to marginalized artists in various fields, including the 2019 inaugural grant to fund an independent musician’s debut EP (awarded to cutsleeve, a five-piece female queer East Asian rock band in Toronto), the 2022 artistic exploration fund for women/femmes of color age 35 or over, and the 2024 grant to fund an installation piece by a trans or non-binary artist, awarded to Hollis Hunter.
Calgary Arts Development supports and strengthens the arts to benefit all Calgarians.
As the city’s designated arts development authority, Calgary Arts Development supports and strengthens the arts to benefit all Calgarians. We invest and allocate municipal funding for the arts provided by The City of Calgary and leverage these funds to provide additional resources to the arts sector. Our programs support hundreds of arts organizations, individual artists, artist collectives, and ad hoc groups in Calgary.
The Nova Scotia Talent Trust believes in the creativity of Nova Scotians.
The Talent Trust is a registered charity that provides scholarships to Nova Scotians who demonstrate exceptional potential and commitment to become established artists in their chosen fields.
Our annual scholarships include theatre, film/new media, literary arts, dance, music, voice, circus arts, visual arts, and design.
ArtsNL is a non-profit Crown agency created in 1980 by The Arts Council Act. Its mission is to foster and promote the creation and enjoyment of the arts for the benefit of all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.
ArtsNL receives an annual grant from the Province to support a variety of granting programs, program delivery, office administration, and communications. It also seeks support from the public and private sector. It supports the following artistic disciplines: dance, film, multidiscipline, music, theatre, visual art, and writing.