Contests & Awards

The Ontario Poetry Society Presents a Chapbook Contest Honouring

The Ellen S. Jaffe Humanist Award for Poetry, 2026

Open to Everyone

Open to Everyone

Rules and Guidelines

Open to Canadians and permanent residents of Canada only

Rules and Guidelines:

Poems are to be no longer than 8 lines and no more than 8 words on a line. Spaces between the stanzas count as lines. Poem title & space between the title and body of the poem do not count as lines. All themes and styles welcome. Poems to be typed one poem per page, single spaced either Times New Roman or Arial #12 Font on white letter size paper (8 ½ x 11). Poems submitted may be previously published, but no previous contest winning poems please.
 

The John Hobday Arts Management Awards are awarded to outstanding managers of professional arts organizations across Canada for the purpose of professional development or mentoring.

• The professional development and resourcing award is given to an exceptional manager in the field of the arts who wishes to participate in a short-term program, a seminar or a recognized workshop.
• The mentoring award is given to an arts manager who wishes to acquire new knowledge, skills and experience through the supervision of a mentor.

Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people.

Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people.

Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people.

Grants for Filmmakers

AFCOOP’s filmmaking grants support the production of local independent films through in-kind equipment and resources. There are grants that are open to the public as well as some that are only open to AFCOOP Full Members.

First Thing Grant

Provides resources and training to make your first film including:

Excellence in Innovation

The Excellence in Innovation Award celebrates the unique ways music educators’ innovative practice influences Music Education in Canada.

Recipients of this award are dedicated to progressive change in music education and their innovative teaching practices impact their students, peers or music education research.

Excellence in Innovation Awards will be evaluated using the following criteria: