Spring is here, and everything’s slowly blooming into life ⎯ we hope your creativity is creeping out of hibernation, too. Here’s a list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more!
Calls for submission: Artists
Filling Station | Art | Ongoing
Event Magazine | Illustrations | Ongoing
SAD Mag | Submissions from painters, illustrators, photographers, videographers, and other artists who have lived or worked in Vancouver, Canada | Ongoing
Maisonneuve | Comics (1-2 pages) | Ongoing
Printed Matter, Inc | Artists books, zines, and print ephemera engaging with ideas of decolonization, resistance, interconnected solidarity | Ongoing
The New Quarterly | Cover art | Ongoing
Calls for submission: Writers
The Fiddlehead | Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction | By Mar 31
The Capilano Review | Poetry, prose, or other short experimental forms | By April 1
The Ex-Puritan | Fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, interviews | By April 1
The New Quarterly | Fiction, poetry | March 1st – August 31st or until submission cap is reached
Acacia Magazine | Call for submissions *for all folks who identify as or with Muslims | Ongoing
Filling Station | Non-Fiction | Ongoing
The Malahat Review | Poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction | Ongoing
SAD Mag | Pitches, prose, poetry for web | Ongoing
Maisonneuve | Articles, features, reviews, letters | Ongoing
Literary contests
Room Magazine | Fiction Contest | By Mar 31
The New Quarterly | Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest | By Mar 28
Grain Magazine | Short Grain Contest | By April 1
Pulp Literature | The Magpie Award for Poetry | By April 15
The Malahat Review | Far Horizons Award for Poetry | By May 1
Funding & other opportunities
Access Copyright Foundation | Professional Development Grants * for creators, arts professionals, organizations and publishers | By Apr 1
BC Arts Council | Arts Impact Grants | April 2
Upstart & Crow | Upstart Writing Residency *applicants must be based in or have ties to BC | April 15
Canada Council | Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples – Long Term projects | By May 8
Canada Council | Literary Publishing Projects | May 1
Botín Foundation | Botín Foundation Art Grants | May 3
Pollock-Krasner Foundation | Grant for visual artists who work on paper | Ongoing
YVR Art Foundation | Aspiring Artist Awards *for BC and Yukon First Nations youth age 15-20 | Ongoing
Happy submitting!
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