Calls for submissions & opportunities: Fall/Winter 2025

As the season turns, we hope the winds are bringing you all that’s necessary ⎯ new dreams, stories, and visions. Here’s a fall list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more!

 


 

Calls for submission: Artists

PRISM International | Art | By Nov 1, 2025

Geist Magazine | Art, photography, comics | By Nov 14, 2025

Yolk Literary Journal | Art | By Nov 30, 2025

Strange Horizons | Original art | Ongoing 

Maisonneuve | Comics and photo essays | Ongoing

The New Quarterly | Cover Art | Ongoing

Filling Station | Art | Ongoing 

C Magazine | Project proposals for The Artist Project | Ongoing

 

Calls for submission: Writers

Riddle Fence | Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | By Oct 31, 2025

Brick, A Literary Journal | Creative Nonfiction | By Oct 31, 2025

The /tƐmz/ Review | Poetry and Prose | By Oct 31, 2025

Geist Magazine | Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Hybrid Forms | By Nov 14, 2025

CV2 Magazine | Poetry, Interviews, Articles, Essays, Reviews | By Nov 30, 2025

Yolk Literary Journal | Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | By Nov 30, 2025

The Fiddlehead  | Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Reviews *by disabled writers on the theme of revolution | By Nov 30, 2025

ARC Poetry Magazine | Poetry | By Dec 31, 2025

Vallum Magazine | Poems from the Crowd series | By Dec 31, 2025

Filling Station | Nonfiction | Ongoing 

Maisonneuve | Comment, Open House, Features, Review, Letters from Montreal | Ongoing

Prairie Fire Magazine | Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction | Ongoing

 

Literary contests

The Ex-Puritan | The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence in Poetry, The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence in Fiction | By Oct 24, 2025

EVENT Magazine | Non-Fiction Contest | By Oct 27, 2025

CV2 Magazine | Foster Poetry Prize | By Nov 1, 2025

PRISM International | Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize | By Nov 1, 2025

The Malahat Review | Open Season Awards in Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction | By Nov 1, 2025

Indigenous Curatorial Collective / Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ICCA) and C Magazine | Indigenous Art Writing Award * for Indigenous Writers | By Nov 24, 2025

The Fiddlehead | The Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem | By Dec 1, 2025

ARC Poetry Magazine | Poem of the Year Contest | By Dec 31, 2025

 

Funding & other opportunities

BC Arts Council | Arts Infrastructure Program | By Nov 6, 2025

Canada Arts Council | Public Outreach Grant | By Nov 19, 2025 

Sundress Publications |  Microgrant for Palestinian Writers | By Dec 1, 2025 

Access Copyright Foundation | Marian Hebb Research Grants | By Feb 15, 2026

Canada Arts Council | Literary Publishers Grant | By Spring 2027 

Canada Arts Council | Arts Across Canada and Abroad Micro-grants | Ongoing

YVR Art Foundation | Aspiring Artist Awards *for BC and Yukon First Nations youth age 15-20 | Ongoing

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