Calls for Submissions

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General / Not Discipline Specific

Charles Biddle Prize call for nominations. The prize highlights the exceptional contribution of artists and cultural workers from immigrant backgrounds to Quebec society.
→Deadline July 23 Click here for more 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

Le FIFA 45 is accepting film submissions for the 45th edition of the International Festival of Films on Art. The Festival of Films on Art is to be held from March 11 to 21, 2027.
→Deadline October 26 Click here for more details

Cinema Feast is accepting film submissions for their media arts organization based in Montreal. Works must resonate with LGBTQ+ audiences. Allies may submit only if the film meaningfully engages with queer themes, stories, or communities.
→Deadline ASAP Click here for more 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

2027 Canadian Folk Music Awards is accepting submissions. Canadian artists who released recordings between May 1, 2025 and July 15, 2026 are eligible.
→Deadline July 15. Click here for details

Performing Arts

Including Performance Art, Circus, Comedy, Interdisciplinary

Just for Laughs is looking for volunteers. Shifts begin on July 11 and new volunteers can sign up until the last day of the festival.
→Deadline July 26. 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.

Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal is accepting applications for their Young Creators Unit: a 9-month creative incubator. Be supported to find your voice, make connections, and learn new storytelling skills, as well as develop practical skills needed to establish a successful career in the arts.
→Deadline July 19. Click here for more details

The Black Theatre Workshop is accepting applications from Theatre Artists to join the Artist Mentorship Program (AMP). AMP is their national training program for Black, Indigenous, people of colour (POC), and LGBTQIA2S+ artists, offered in both English and French, from the perspective of an English language company in Quebec.
→Deadline July 6. Click here for more 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

The McClure Gallery is now accepting submissions for its 2027-2028 exhibition programme. Contemporary artists of all media and curators with an exhibition proposal are invited to apply.
→Deadline October 15, 2026 Click here for more 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.

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

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

Quebec Writers Foundation is accepting applications, calling all Quebec-based Spoken Word artists, storytellers, and performance poets.
→Deadline July 8 Click here for details

Playright’s Workshop Montreal is accepting applications for their 2026-2027 Young Creators’ Unit
→Deadline July 19 Click here for details

Infinite Theatre Montreal is calling for submissions for their annual full-length playwriting competition, Write-on-Q, open to anyone residing within Québec!
→Deadline September 8th 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.