Calls for Submissions
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General / Not Discipline Specific
Invisible Voices is a three-day intensive program, including a final evening of presentations that will grant 6 to 8 creators and storytellers from Black communities from the Greater Montréal area the opportunity to benefit from masterclasses and mentoring sessions presented at PHI. This professional development program will allow participants to learn and exchange on a variety of themes, such as innovative storytelling, music, directing, animation, editing, the challenges of filmmaking, funding and grants, and much more.
→Deadline May 4. Click here for details
exChange is looking for Teaching Artists. exChange is an Intergenerational 2SLGBTQI+ daring dialogue arts project. Their aim is to bridge the gap between 2SLGBTQI+ youth and the elders who paved the way. The goal of this initiative is twofold: to establish intergenerational reciprocal relationships through art making, and to document the storytelling of the English-speaking 2SLGBTQI+ communities in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke, which are often stories unheard.
→Deadline asap [event June 21]. Click here for details
The PHI Montréal Residency, in collaboration with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), invites one artist from Montréal and one artist from Québec residing outside Montréal to collaborate with PHI on public engagement projects. The results of this residency can come in various forms, such as concise exhibitions, discussions, performances, or workshops. More specifically, this program highlights ongoing conversations and collaboration among communities, artists and cultural organizations.
→Deadline May 2. Click here for details
Centre SAGAMIE, centre Bang and their research forest Laboratoire vivant Km3 are inviting Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean artists to apply for an eco-responsible project inspired by the boreal forest.
→Deadline April 28. Click here for details
SAGAMIE also has open calls for a Research/Creation Residency and a Micro-publishing Residency.
→Deadline May 26.Click here for details
Mass Culture is offering fully funded one-on-one data coaching for arts organizations. This is an opportunity to work with a Mass Culture verified data coach to develop customized strategies for data collection, analysis, and impact measurement.
→Deadline April 20. 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
JFL Pilots presented by Just For Laughs in partnership with Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue, will spotlight 3 of the most original and hilarious independent half-hour TV pilots from around the world. We’re looking for bold, laugh-out-loud comedies—whether they’re sharp satires, clever mockumentaries, heartfelt rom-coms, or daringly unique concepts designed to captivate audiences. Each 20-30 minute pilot, live-action or animated, must be independently produced and undistributed as a multi-episode series.
→Deadline May 5. Click here for details
QPEC is accepting applications for their Mentorship Program for Emerging Producers. Are you an emerging or mid-career producer working on an English-language television project in Quebec? Do you have a project in development and need expert guidance to move it forward into production? The 4th Annual 2025 QEPC Mentorship Program will connect you with some of the industry’s most acclaimed, award-winning producers and leaders in the field who are deeply committed to shaping the next generation of English-content producers in Quebec.
→Deadline May 4. Click here for details
Canada Media Fund has a number of available funding programs with 2025 deadlines.
→ Click here for details
Music & Sound
To mark the Sutton Market’s 55th anniversary, they are hiring local musicians, bands and singers to perform at the market.
→Deadline a.s.a.p. Click here for details
Le Pub Classique is a series created for classical musicians to play together, network, and share classical music with audiences in a relaxed and unconventional setting. Musician sign-up for classical musicians is now open. 8 to 10 minute slots, play anything you want from the “classical” repertoire, Monteverdi to Saariaho! Each registered artist/ensemble will receive a minimum honorarium of $100 for their performance (ensemble size taken into account).
→Multiple deadlines. Click here for details
M for Montreal is accepting submissions for their 2025 festival. Artists and their teams wishing to be part of the Official Selection for this 20th edition can now submit their applications, presented by the Caisse de la culture Desjardins, until May 23 at midnight.
→Deadline May 23. Click here for details
Performing Arts
Including Performance Art, Circus, Comedy, Interdisciplinary
The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize is open to Quebec-based spoken word artists, storytelling artists, and literary performance artists working in English in any form of performative writing, including poetry, story, monologue, hip hop, dub, sound poetry, and experimental and interdisciplinary work.
→ Deadline July 6. 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.
The 2025 Gros Morne Playwrights’ Residency is now accepting applications. The Residency will bring together seven playwrights living in Canada over a twelve-day period, from October 16 to 27, 2025. Created by Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal (PWM) and the Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD), this Residency is held in partnership with Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Creative Gros Morne, the Bonne Bay Aquarium & Research Station and with the vital support of the Cole Foundation.
→Deadline April 27. Click here for details
Applications for Black Theatre Workshop’s 2025-26 Artist Mentorship Program (AMP) are open. AMP supports emerging, mid-career and established artists on their journey to becoming self-sustaining, professionals with a strong understanding of theatre production in all its facets. AMP is a national program that focuses on bridging the learning gaps, and access faced by Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (POC) artists in their theatre careers.
→Deadline April 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.
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. The residency period runs from June 27 to August 8, 2025.
→Deadline May 1. Click here for details [EN follows FR]
Exposures Film Fest 2025 has opened a call for Graphic Designers to design their official poster. Exposures is a bilingual Montréal-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting, showcasing,
and supporting trans films and filmmakers. They champion fair and authentic
representation by centering stories by and for trans communities.
→Deadline April 30. Click here for details [EN follows FR]
In the context of this artistic exchange program between Quebec and Scotland, four organisations – Fonderie Darling, Gare de Matapédia, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Hospitalfield – come together to launch the third edition of the Darling Newhaven Residency. This exchange program invites Quebec sculpture artists to apply for a residency in Edinburgh. Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s purpose-built facilities offer a range of shared spaces specially designed to accommodate contemporary sculptural practice. There are wood, metal and ceramic workshops alongside a foundry and 26 studios that house a community of practicing artists.
→Deadline May 23. Click here for details
Each year, Dazibao presents an image-based artwork by an artist who will be completing graduate studies in visual art during the year. Applicants are asked to submit an image prioritizing artistic experimentation and research, and reflection related to current social issues as per Dazibao’s mandate. In addition to considerable exposure, the artist will receive $ 575. This opportunity is meant to support an emerging artist whose image-based work is thought-provoking and engages with contemporary culture.
→Deadline April 15. Click here for details
Dazibao is in search of its next Instagram residency artist. From June 15 to August 15 the selected artist will do a total takeover of Dazibao’s account, using the platform to develop and share a new series of image-based works.The residency will culminate in a digital publication produced by Dazibao, including an interview with the artist.
→Deadline April 15. Click here for details
The Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Incorporated (JCCBI) is calling for applications from the Canadian artistic community for the design of a piece of public art. This artwork, a sculpture designed specifically for the South Shore entrance to the Jacques Cartier Bridge, will be installed in 2026. It is in line with JCCBI’s vision, which includes ensuring that infrastructure blends pleasantly into its surroundings, for the benefit of the community.
→Deadline April 17. 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.
Esse is pleased to present a new series of digital residencies that invite researchers to immerse themselves in articles from various Canadian cultural and scholarly journals, and to establish a dialogue with their own research in light of current aesthetic, political, and social issues. Leading to the writing of an original essay published on the esse.ca platform, these digital residencies aim to develop the transmission of critical thought.
→Deadline May 1. Click here for details
The 2025 QWF Literary Awards book prizes are now open for submissions. Prizes are open in a number of categories.
→Deadline June 1. Click here for details
The 2025 Fresh Pages Editorial Mentorship at carte blanche is now open to applications. Learn about managing a literary magazine and help curate the photography section of issue of carte blanche, QWF’s online literary magazine. This program is open to you if you are Black, Indigenous, or a person of colour. A component of the Fresh Pages Diversity Initiative, the Editorial Mentorship at carte blanche is a temporary, part-time, paid opportunity designed to give a Quebec-based artist the skills and experience to edit or manage a literary magazine.
→Deadline April 17. Click here for details
Vallum Chapbook Prize. Submit your chapbooks of 15-30 pages for consideration.
→Deadline April 30. Click here for details
Room Magazine seeks unpublished poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and black-and-white art by folks of marginalized genders.
→Deadline rolling. Click here for details
Yolk literary is now accepting submissions to their digital publication and to their “In Transit” series.
→Deadline rolling. Click here for details
