As we shake off the long winter, we hope your creativity is creeping out of hibernation, too. Here’s a spring list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more!
Calls for submission: Artists
ROOM Magazine | Art and photos for open issue Room 48.4 | Ongoing
GEIST | Comics, art, photography | By April 25
League of Canadian Poets | Call for illustrators: Indigenous History Month, Pride Month, and Disability Pride Month | By May 6
Riddle Fence | Visual Art Contest | By July 1
PRISM International | Magazine artwork | Ongoing
Strange Horizons | Original art | Ongoing
The Walrus | Photography | Ongoing
Maisonneuve | Comics | Ongoing
The New Quarterly | Cover Art | Ongoing
Filling Station | Art | Ongoing
Event Magazine | Illustrations | Ongoing
Calls for submission: Writers
ROOM Magazine | Poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for open issue Room 48.4 *for writers who live within “Canadian” territories and provinces, or Canadian residents living overseas | Ongoing
GEIST | Fiction, hybrid forms, poetry, essays, non-fiction | By April 25
Strange Horizons | Fiction, poetry, and nonfiction for Afrosurrealism special issue *open to writers of African descent only, whether based in the diaspora or in Africa | By April 30
Filling Station | Fiction and nonfiction | By May 1
Contemporary Verse 2 | Poetry, interviews, articles, essays, and reviews | By May 31
The Malahat Review | Call for submissions for special issue: Inhale/Exhale: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling *open to emerging and early- to mid-career Indigenous writers | By June 1
PRISM International | Poetry and prose for FILTH issue | By June 11
The Ex-Puritan | Poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, interviews, and experimental/hybrid work | By June 25
The Malahat Review | Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | Ongoing
oteh nîkân | Poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (including scholarly writing and criticism) *open to LGBTQ2S+ Indigenous writers | Ongoing
Maisonneuve | Comment, Open House, Features, Review, Letters from Montreal | Ongoing
Riddle Fence | Creative Nonfiction | Ongoing
Literary contests
ROOM Magazine | Creative Non-Fiction Contest | By June 1
PRISM International | Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms | By April 30
Vallum Magazine | Vallum Chapbook Award | By April 30
The Malahat Review | Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction | By May 1
The New Quarterly | The Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award | By May 28
Riddle Fence | Poetry Contest | By July 1
Riddle Fence | Fiction Contest | By July 1
Funding & Other Opportunities
Canada Council | Research and Creation grants | By April 23
Canada Council | Concept to Realization – Project grants | By April 23
Vancouver Writers Fest | My Roots Poetry Workshop *free workshop for immigrants to Canada on June 7 | Apply by May 9
Upstart & Crow | Upstart & Crow Non-Fiction Writers’ Residency, in partnership with The Tyee | By May 16
BC Arts Council | Project Assistance: Literary Arts *for collectives or organizations | By May 22
YVR Art Foundation | Aspiring Artist Awards *for BC and Yukon First Nations youth aged 15-20 | Ongoing
Happy submitting!
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