Call for Submissions: October 2017

Music

Montreal City Voices invites women of all ages to join their chorus rehearsals on Wednesdays from 7:30-9:45pm. For more information contact mtlcityvoices@gmail.com.

Visual Arts

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, with the support of Conseil des arts de Montréal, is calling for candidates for their 8-week artist residency for an emerging visual artist from one of Montreal’s cultural communities or a First Nations, Inuit or Métis. Deadline to apply is October 20.

Writing

Submit your poetry to Vallum Issue 15.1 Forgetting by November 15. How does “Forgetting” figure in your lives and in your poems?

Submit your fiction to Cosmonauts Avenue‘s 2017 fiction prize by October 31. Cosmonauts Avenue is calling for work that elevates and amplifies underrepresented voices, work that is warm, thoughtful, dark, light, devastating, funny, & necessary.

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.