Calls for Submissions

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General / Not Discipline Specific

The Museum of Jewish Montreal is accepting applications for the 2024-2025 cycle of their Microgrant Cohort Program for Creative or Cultural Exploration. The program provides seed funding to help emerging creatives bring their innovative project ideas to life. Grants awarded will be $1250 to $1350 per project, in addition to a $400 honorarium for participating in an 8-session seminar series.
→Deadline September 23. Click here for details

Montréal Serai is an arts-culture-politics webzine that publishes art, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and reviews of film, music, art, exhibitions, theatre and dance. They are accepting applications for the Rana Bose Grant. It is intended to support a new, emerging or established artist who has contributed to Serai in the past or who fits well with the magazine’s mandate. “Artist” is used as a broad term to include anyone in the arts (e.g., writer, painter, filmmaker, poet, dancer, multimedia or performance artist, etc.).
→Deadline September 30. Click here for details

Conseil des arts de Montreal seeks applications for The CAM en tournée (Touring Program). Organizations, artist collectives, and individual artists across disciplines should apply for this opportunity to bring greater visibility to the arts on the Island of Montreal.
→Deadline October 2 @ 5pm. 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

Image + Nation is accepting submissions for this year’s LGBT2SQUEER Film Festival in Montreal.
→Deadline September 15. Click here for details

Call for Entries: International Festival of Films on Art. Directors, filmmakers, producers, distributors, and artists, submit your projects for the 43rd edition of the International Festival of Films on Art, held from March 13 to 23, 2025. Categories include films about art, biographical films, documentaries, performance recordings, art videos, media art, and videoclips.
→Deadline October 31st. Click here for details

Call for submissions: Regard Film Festival. Regard is an Oscar-qualifying festival and will hold its 29th edition in 2025.
→Deadline November 1. Click here for details

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

Music & Sound

Performing Arts

Including Performance Art, Circus, Comedy, Interdisciplinary

MAI (Montreal, arts interculturels) invites emerging and established artists, collectives, and artistic companies based in Canada, to submit their performing arts proposals for the 2025-2026 MAI season which will take place from September 2025 to June 2026. They encourage projects that explore pluridisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, thus reflecting diversity and interculturality, fundamental values of their mission.
→Deadline October 31. Click here for details

Montreal FRINGE Festival lottery is open for submissions. Artists can apply with performance projects of many disciplines including dance, theatre, comedy, clown, solo show, music, and more.
→Deadline November 22 @ 6PM. 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.

imago Theatre has opened the call for their Nested Circles Newcomer Artist Residency. 10 Newcomer artists, who moved to Montreal from another country, are paired with 10 Mentoring artists, who have existing artistic practices in Montreal, to help guide their creation process. This residency will expose the artists to contemporary, values-based practices that are anti-colonial, inclusive, and community-oriented. This self-directed residency pays each artist $3000 and values process and exploration.
→Deadline September 25. Click here for details

Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal (PWM), LA SERRE – arts vivants (LA SERRE) and the Conseil des Arts de Montréal (CAM) are currently accepting applications for the 2025-2026 English-language edition of AMPLIFIER. AMPLIFIER offers a long-term exploratory creation process to a playwright who identifies as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit), Black, POC, racialized, including 1^st or 2^nd generation immigrant artists (as defined in the Conseil des Arts de Montréal’s glossary), working creatively in one of Canada’s official languages.
→Deadline October 23. Click here for details

Teesri Duniya Theatre is accepting submissions for their Fireworks Play Development Program. The mentorship program lasts six months and provides support for the development of playwrights’ work.
→Deadline October 31 @ 11:59pm. 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.

Est nord est is accepting applications for their Artist in Residency program. This residency program is open to professional visual artists, whether established or emerging, from Québec, Canada, and other countries. The eight-week residencies host four artists per season. They include an honorarium, lodging, work spaces, logistical support, and access to the centre’s technical and documentary resources.
→Deadline November 10 @ 11:59 PM Click here for details

Centre CLARK invites artists, curators, and collectives to submit exhibition projects for its annual programming 2025-2026. CLARK supports innovative artistic practices, presenting exhibitions from emerging and established, local and international artists. Our programming features a multiplicity of languages, perspectives, heritages and experiences that translate into as many forms of contemporary art.
→Deadline October 1 @ 11:59 PM Click here for details

ESPACE art actuel and Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK announce the Prix Librairie CLARK to promote critical writing on current art and foster links between university research, publishing, and artist-run centres. Graduate students in art practice, art history, museology, and related fields are invited to submit a critical essay on themes or artistic approaches from the Centre’s annual exhibition program.
→Deadline October 7 @ 11:59 PM Click here for details

The McClure Gallery invites submissions for its 2025-2026 programming season. Artists and curators encouraged to apply.
→Deadline October 15 @ 11:59 PM Click here for details

Artexte 2024-2025 research residency program is now open for submissions! They invite three researchers from all contemporary art disciplines to explore Artexte’s collection and deepen their research. Selected residents receive research support, workspace, and a $1,000 honorarium.
→Deadline October 29. Click here for details

Caravansérail is accepting submissions for exhibitions from emerging artists in the Lower St. Lawrence region for their annual programming.
→Deadline November 3 @ 11:59pm. 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.

Call for Submissions: Japanese Canadian Place & Memory by Japanese Canadian Legacies Fund and Véhicule Press . Submit poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction for an anthology focused on Japanese Canadian place and memory, co-edited by Michael Prior, Kerri Sakamoto, and Leanne Toshiko Simpson. The collection aims to honor histories and create new narratives, with works featured in both a print anthology and a digital mapping project.
→Deadline January 1. Click here for details

Metatron Press seeks submissions for their Micro-Meta Series on Instagram, featuring short, impactful poems that blend humor and existential reflection. Submit up to 5 pieces, each with a larger font size (16 pt+), 20 lines or less.
→Deadline rolling. Click here for details

Room Magazine invites submissions for Issue 48.1: Humour. They seek unpublished poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and black-and-white art by folks of marginalized genders. Share your funniest works that explore the power of laughter as resistance and critique.
→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

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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