Calls for Submissions

If you are looking for Grant or Funding information, check out our Quebec Relations funding search tool. You can use it to find Quebec funding and grant information (in English)! Click here to search for arts funding for your project

General / Not Discipline Specific

The PHI Montréal Residency, in collaboration with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), is inviting one artist from Montréal and one artist from Québec to collaborate with the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art on public engagement projects.
→Deadline Thursday May 9 Click here for details

Assemblée nationale du Québec has opened a competition for the creation of a digital or video work.
→Deadline May 8. Click here for details

Dance

Film & TV

Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal (FNC) is looking for films as well as virtual reality, interactive and performance works for its 52nd edition which will run from October 9 to 20, 2024 in Montréal.
→Deadline May 15. Click here for details

Canada Media Fund has a number of available funding programs with 2024 deadlines.
→ Click here for details

Short Ends is now accepting submissions to be a guest contributor to write in their upcoming publication. Candidates who have interest in writing personal film analysis are strongly encouraged to apply.
→Deadline April 26. Click here for details

Music & Sound

FringeMTL is booking musicians for the Fringe Park in June. Note the festival does not pay the musical acts but there is a pass the hat around the audience, and drink tickets for the band.
→ Click here for details

Performing Arts

Including Performance Art, Circus, Comedy, Interdisciplinary

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.

Black Theatre Workshop is accepting submissions for their next Artist Mentorship Program! The program will offer a production and administrative focus and is designed to support early-career and experienced artists.
→Deadline May 30  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.

Hub Montreal is now accepting submissions for it’s 8th edition programming under the theme “Horizon(s): technologies of perception and action”. They aim to promote digital projects and new technologies that will influence and have an impact on our daily lives in the years to come. Projects at the crossroads of multidisciplinary sectors will redefine the future of digital creativity and the way we approach it.
→Deadline May 10   Click here for details

Entractes performing arts festival is now accepting submissions from professional artists and emerging artists, to explore artistic risk in are intimate and uninhibited context. The festival aims to be both a place of experimentation and a meeting place for artists, presenters and audiences who are not afraid to experiment. It will take place at the Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV), CÉDA and Parc Vinet in Petite Bourgogne on October 25, 26 and 27.
→Deadline May 16   Click here for details

Art Volt is now accepting submissions from recent alumni for the 5th edition Mentorship program! Apply now to work alongside one of their many wonderful mentors, all from various fields within the Fine Arts!
→Deadline May 16 at 5:00 PM  Click here for details

MOMENTA is launching its call for submissions for its 2025 edition. The Biennale invites Canadian artists and artist collectives, emerging and established, to submit a project to show their works connected with the theme “In Praise of the Missing Image”, whether at the ideation or the production stage. Special attention to works that are new or have not been exhibited in Quebec and/or in Tiohti’á:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal.
→ Deadline May 14 Click here for details

Ada X offers two call outs for artists residing in the Greater Montreal area:
– Call for professional training workshops → Deadline Monday, April 15  Click here for details
– Call for residency projects → Deadline Thursday, May 16  Click here for details

OFFTA invites emerging avant-garde artists to apply for its 2025 festival. An annual artistic event presented on the fringes of the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), allows artists to share performances that shift the perspectives of festivalgoers and explore new artistic practices. 
→Deadline May 5  Click here for details

The William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists, to support young emerging visual artists whose practice shows potential and is deemed to have the determination and talent to contribute to the legacy of art in Canada.
→Deadline May 6 11:59 pm EDT Click here for details

ArtistsInMontreal.com is on the lookout for Montreal visual artists to have their works featured on the website. As of Jan. 1, 2022, the membership fee is $10 for the year per artist. AIM takes no commission on works sold.
→ 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.

Art Volt x Esse Writing Residency. This partnership and program aims to support two recent alumni of Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts by providing them the opportunity to research and write an essay that will be published on Esse’s online platform.
→Deadline Tuesday, May 21  Click here for details

Yolk Literary welcomes entries to the inaugural Montreal Fiction Prize. They seek original short stories up to 4,000 words on any subject and in any style.
→Deadline Sunday, May 19  Click here for details

Gros Morne Playwrights’ Residency is now accepting applications! They will bring together seven playwrights living in Canada over a twelve-day period, from September 26 to October 7, 2024. It is an opportunity for solo writing, punctuated with moments of exchange and reading work in progress as a group.
→Deadline Monday, May 6  Click here for details

Revue Esse call for papers is now open for submissions!
Click here for more details

CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions! You could win 6,000$, a residency, and have your work publish on CBC Books.
→Deadline Saturday, June 1 at 17:00 ET Click here for details

Fresh Pages Editorial Mentorship at Carte Blanche is now accepting applications! The mentorship includes: $800 honorarium, approximately 15 hours of mentorship, and a free one-year membership in the Quebec Writers’ Federation.
→Deadline Tuesday, April 30  Click here for details

Max Margles Writing Residency in Ireland is open to Quebec-based fiction writers with a writing practice primarily in English. The dates of the residency are from October 11 to November 1, 2024 and will cover travel, meals, accommodation, incidental expenses etc.
→Deadline Monday, April 22, 2024, 5:00 pm EDT Click here for details

2024 QWF Literary Awards are now open to submissions. 
– Book prizes →Deadline June 3, 2024. Click here for details
– Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize →Deadline July 2, 2024. Click here for details

Montreal Prize awards one prize of $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of 40 or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately 60 poems, from which a judge chooses one winner. The shortlist is published in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology.
→Deadline May 1 [Regular entry]. Click here for details. 

Vallum Magazine is accepting submissions for its Chapbook Contest. The winning chapbook will be published as part of Vallum’s Chapbook Series and will receive a $300 prize. Chapbooks may be on any theme or subject, but must be original and not previously published.
→Deadline April 30. Click here for details. 

Lantern Magazine is accepting submissions. Established in 2007, Lantern Magazine is a poetry periodical specifically catered to promoting writers in the Montreal literary community.
→ Ongoing. 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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