Calls for Submissions
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General / Not Discipline Specific
The Trellis Micro-grant project, supported by The Department of Canadian Heritage’s Official Languages Support Programs, seeks to highlight English-language Arts and Artists to make them visible to a broader community, and build bridges between Québec’s English-speaking minority and Francophone majority. Call for submissions has opened for Artists, Artist Collectives, and Organizations to submit their proposals. Projects supported will be those that seek to strengthen the English-language community sense of belonging in Quebec, through arts and culture.
→Deadline January 7 & 20 [read for deadline details]. Click here for details
The call for projects for the 2025 edition of Festival Fierté Montréal is officially open! The festival is looking for innovative and inspiring artistic projects to enhance their 2025 programming.
→Deadline January 30. Click here for details
SIT Scènes Interactives Technologiques and Eastern Bloc, in collaboration with Troikatronix, are proud
to announce 15 technological support grants for artists and practitioners in performing, multidisciplinary,
and digital arts. These grants are part of the Development of Innovative and Eco-Responsible
Teleperformance Technologies project, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
→Deadline January 5. 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.
Danses Buissonnières is an annual program presented by Tangente danse dedicated to choreographers in the early stages of their career, whether they have recently graduated, are self-taught, or have followed other types of professional training or apprenticeship. Over 4 consecutive evenings as part of its 2025-2026 season, the works of 5 selected emerging choreographers and/or collectives will be presented at Tangente.
→Deadline February 3 @ 5PM. Click here for details
Film & TV
Canada Media Fund has a number of available funding programs with 2024 deadlines.
→ Click here for details
Music & Sound
Submissions to play POP Montreal 2025, taking place from September 24th to the 28th, are now open.
→Deadline April 12. Click here for details
Performing Arts
Including Performance Art, Circus, Comedy, Interdisciplinary
La TOHU and La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines are seeking applications from circus companies open to interdisciplinarity for their programming initiative L’Autre Cirque.
→Deadline December 20. 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 Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) and Théâtre ESPACE GO, in collaboration with members of the Award Development Committee, are pleased to announce the call for applications for the 6th Jovette-Marchessault Award, which recognizes and showcases the contribution of women artists from Montréal’s theatre scene. The recipient of the award receives a $20,000 grant from the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
→Deadline January 22. Click here for details
Teesri Duniya Theatre invites artists from all cultural backgrounds to submit original monologues for ‘Monologues for Dialogue’, part of the upcoming season ‘Staging Freedom’. This powerful event will explore the intersections of occupation, genocide, peace, and freedom through the lens of diverse voices.
→Deadline January 17. Click here for details
The Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) and Théâtre ESPACE GO, in collaboration with members of the Award Development Committee, announced the call for applications for the 6th Jovette-Marchessault Award, which recognizes and showcases the contribution of women artists from Montréal’s theatre scene. The recipient of the award receives a $20,000 grant from the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
→Deadline January 22. Click here for details
ARTISTA, Imago Theatre’s Youth Mentorship Program for women, trans, and non-binary people ages 17-22, is open for submissions.
→Deadline January 6. Click here for details
The National Theatre School (NTS) has opened its call for the Jenepher Margaret Hooper Fund Design Residency. This program aims to promote the educational and artistic contribution of a resident designer who acts as a mentor to the students for a full year.
→Deadline March 10. Click here for details
The Cole Foundation & Playwrights Workshop Montreal are accepting applications for their program that mentors emerging translators through every stage of their process in writing a new translation of a play. The successful applicant to this year’s program will receive a $2,000 honorarium and a mentorship with Maureen Labonté, including a workshop with actors and a public reading. The mentorship begins in March 2025, and lasts for approximately one year.
→Deadline January 15. 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.
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.
The Writers’ Union of Canada invites submissions to its 32nd annual Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers. A $2,500 prize will be awarded to the winner, and the entries of the winner and eleven finalists will be submitted to three Canadian magazines for consideration. Unpublished works of fiction and nonfiction up to 2,500 words in English are eligible, and writers may submit multiple entries. The entry fee is $29 per submission.
→Deadline February 17. Click here for details
Planet, My Love... is a fiction writing contest open to students with a taste for literature or creative writing attending UQAM, Université de Montréal, Concordia and McGill University, as well as colleges. The contest invites 18-30 year-olds to explore climate emergencies through literature. For a chance to win one of two $1,000 bursaries, you are invited to submit a 2,000-word fictional text that blends ecological issues with romance. The plot can be set in any era – past, present or future – and can include characters of fantastical dimensions. All forms of narrative are welcome.
→Deadline January 15. Click here for details
Japanese Canadian Legacies Fund and Véhicule Press have opened a call for submissions for Japanese Canadian Place & Memory. 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: Rest/Unrest. They seek 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
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
