Calls for Submissions

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General / Not Discipline Specific

Dance

If you are looking for Dance opportunities, check out the Regroupement Québecois de la danse and consider becoming a member of this organization dedicated to working with Dancers in Quebec.

Studio 303 is hosting the 3rd edition of the MARATHON on April 25. They are looking for short forms of choreographic and performative works (5 minutes max) that integrate the body and/or movement. Open to projects in the research/exploration/creation phase and to artists at any career stage.
→Deadline March 22. Click here for details

Film & TV

Sommets du cinéma d’animation invites Canadian filmmakers, producers and distributors to submit all forms of animation, from short films to music videos, educational shorts, and advertising. Please note that the Official Selection is dedicated to Canadian productions and co-productions.
→Deadline February 27. Click here for details

Call for film submissions for Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec
→Deadline June 8. Click here for details

Music & Sound

Fairbairn House Heritage Centre in Wakefield, QC is accepting submissions for Musical Mondays. Fill out the form to sign up to play beautiful outdoor concerts!
→Deadline April 10. Click here for details

CLARK has an open call for sound artists. Poste audio‘s programming is open to artists and collectives from near and far. It presents a multiplicity of voices, perspectives, heritages and experiences that translate into as many sonic languages. Selected projects will be broadcast at the Centre from September 2026 to June 2027.
→Deadline March 8. Click here for details

Are you an artist or a band interested in taking part in Mundial 2026? Do you identify with the global music movement and wish to present an official showcase?
→Deadline March 4. Click here for details

M FOR MONTREAL 2026 call for artists and artist representatives. M for Montreal festival’s 21st edition that will take place on November 18 to 21, 2026.
→Deadline April 30. Click here for details

Submissions are now open to play POP Montreal’s 25th Anniversary Edition on September 23–27, 2026.
→Deadline April 1. Click here for details

Performing Arts

Including Performance Art, Circus, Comedy, Interdisciplinary

The Montreal Clown Festival is looking for participants for “the Grand Imbecile:, their signature show. You get the chance to be nominated for “The Grand Imbecile” being the Greatest Fool of the night comes with a cash prize of $100 CAD . Other prizes and nominations will be offered. The night will feature short acts, each under three minutes.
→Deadline March 8. Click here for details

Montreal Sketchfest is open to applications for its 2026 run.
→Deadline March 18. Click here for details

Cirque Éloize is launching a brand-new project in East Asia in 2026 and is looking for passionate artists and creators to join this incredible journey.
→Deadline ongoing. Click here for details

Theatre

If you are looking for theatre opportunities, check out Quebec Drama Federation’s What’s on Wednesdays page (also available on their social media) and subscribe to their newsletter to stay on top of the latest news.

From May 19–31, 2026, Musique 3 Femmes will co-produce with Opéra de Montréal the second edition of the Opera Creation Forum – a paid learning and opera creation opportunity for emerging composers and librettists of any age interested in developing work for the operatic stage.
→Deadline March 9. Click here for details

Visual Arts & New Media Arts

If you want to stay on top of Calls for Submissions in visual & new media arts, akimbo.ca has a newsletter service you can subscribe to which will keep you posted on upcoming opportunities in Quebec as well as other regions in Canada.

Are you an artist who wants to have their work featured in a local journal? Convergence is a community-based research journal supported by QPIRG-Concordia and QPIRG-McGill. The theme of this new edition is REFRAGMENTATION: WORLD-BUILDING AND MAP-MAKING. →Deadline March 14. Click here for details

The artist-in-residence programme at the Visual Arts Centre (VAC) offers one or more artists the opportunity to work in a fully equipped ceramic studio in a community that shares the same passion for clay and its many possibilities.
→Deadline March 15. Click here for details

Artists from around the world are invited to take part in the Global Art League 2026 Art Competition, happening in Montreal, Canada, next summer.
→Deadline ongoing. Click here for details

Writing/Literary Arts

If you are looking for Writing opportunities, check out the Quebec Writers’ Federation and sign up for their newsletter to stay on top of the latest news, contests, and workshops. For Playwrighting opportunities, look under Theatre.

Are you a writer who wants to have their work featured in a local journal? Convergence is a community-based research journal supported by QPIRG-Concordia and QPIRG-McGill. The theme of this new edition is REFRAGMENTATION: WORLD-BUILDING AND MAP-MAKING. →Deadline March 14. Click here for details

The 2026 Fresh Pages Guest Curatorship is now accepting applications from aspiring literary artists who are Black, Indigenous, or people of colour. The selected candidate will work under the guidance of 2Spirit Michif multidisciplinary artist and educator Moe Clark to curate the September 2026 edition of the Words and Music Show. An honorarium of $800 and a mentorship will be provided.
→Deadline March 19. Click here for details

Chouquette is accepting submissions of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and art.
→Deadline March 1. Click here for details

Yolk is now accepting submission in Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, and Visual Arts for their Digital Publication
→Deadline March 31. Click here for details

The Northern Writing Prize is looking for writers who have a connection to the land, culture, and/or communities of the North. They are especially seeking pitches from Indigenous writers, photographers, and artists. They recognize that the North is defined culturally, rather than by strict geographic lines.
→Deadline March 1. Click here for details

The CBC Nonfiction Prize is open to submissions.
→Deadline March 1. Click here for details

Submissions are now open for Soliloquies Anthology 30.2 Soliloquies Anthology is looking for vibrant poetry and prose of in English by emerging and established authors. No theme.
→Deadline March 6. Click here for details

The Montreal International Poetry Prize 2026 is now open to submissions. Winner will receive $20 000.
→Deadline May 15. Click here for details

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.

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