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

What the Pop! Call for submissions. Selected artists get free training, a chance to showcase (and sell!) your work, a chance to connect with other creatives.
→Deadline June 7. Click here for details

Canadian Heritage, through the Multiculturalism and Anti‑Racism Program – Events component (MARP Events), is looking to fund organizations to deliver public events that bring communities together and highlight diverse voices, histories, and artistic expressions. The submission period begins April 29, 2026 for events starting between December 1, 2026, and March 31.
→Deadline June 10 4pm. Click here for details

Canadian Heritage, through the Community Development through Arts and Heritage – Community Anniversaries component provides financial support to local groups for non-recurring events that mark the 100th anniversary or greater, in increments of 2 5years (e.g., 125th, 150th); of a significant local historical event or personality.
→Deadline May 31. Click here for details

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.

Film & TV

Call for film submissions for RIDM festival
→Deadline June 15. 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

le depanneur cafe is looking for musicians to take a weekly spot playing in the cafe.
→Deadline Ongoing. Click here for details

Performing Arts

Including Performance Art, Circus, Comedy, Interdisciplinary

LA SERRE — arts vivants is looking for emerging artists recently graduated — or with an unconventional artistic background. YOU ARE HERE is an intensive interdisciplinary creation residency that brings together 8 projects each year, led by creators in the performing arts. Next edition: October 25 to November 1, 2026
→Deadline June 11. 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.

YOU ARE HERE is an intensive multi-disciplinary creative residency for new artists and graduates of the city’s various performing arts programs.
→Deadline June 11. 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.

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.

Research Residency for emerging art critics
→Deadline June 5. Click here for details

Infinithéâtre is looking for monologues, plays and musicals from young writers age 13-19. Winner receives $500, short-listed entries receive a fully staged reading at Park ‘N Play.
→Deadline June 30. Click here for details

QUEER LITTLE DAYDREAMS is looking for poetry, fiction, and non-fic that purposefully plays with the strange and surreal.
→Deadline August 1. Click here for details

The Encore Poetry Project is looking for poetry submissions.
→Deadline June 1. Click here for details

Continuité magazine is seeking professional writers.
→Deadline June 15. Click here for details

The QWF Literary Awards are now accepting submissions for eight prizes:
The A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry; The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction; The Concordia University First Book Prize; The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction; Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole; The QWF Prize for Playwriting; The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize; The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
→Deadline June 3 5PM ET. Click here for details

QWF offers their members a discount on Rosemary House’s writing retreats in Greece. This year’s retreat leaders include Claudia Rankine, the poet Maggie Smith, Kaveh Akbar, and many more celebrated writers.
→Deadline 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.