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
