Calls for Submissions: June 2017

Music

The Montreal Art Center is seeking performing artists for their new monthly program called ‘1st Friday’s Live’. For more information on the criteria, see the submission call here.

Visual Arts

The Emerging Digital Artists Award (EDAA) is currently accepting applications for its 2017 award program. Applicants are encouraged to play with moving image formats such as video, animation, and GIF art. Apply by JULY 10.

Theatre

Infinithéâtre calls for submissions to its second cohort of The Playwrights’ Unit. Submit an early draft of your new, unproduced play by JUNE 16. For more details contact plays@infinitheatre.com.

Writing

Vallum Magazine is accepting submissions for their next issue on the theme of ‘Lies and Duplicity’. Apply by JUNE 15. For more information, click here.

The Quebec Writers’s Federation are welcoming short stories, poetry and works of non-fiction for a chance to be awarded the 2017 QWF Literary Prize for Young Writers. Writers between the age of 16 and 24 years old are invited to submit their work before JUNE 15.

Talisman Theatre is calling for submissions for favourite Quebecois/Canadian works of literature in English or French. Submit your selections by JUNE 15 to talisman@talisman-theatre.com
Vallum Magazine is now accepting submissions for the 2017 Award for Poetry. Submit up to 3 poems by JULY 15 by filling out this form. For more information about submission criteria, consult this link.

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.