Calls for Submissions

If you are looking for Grant or Funding information, check out our Quebec Relations funding search tool. You can use it to find Quebec funding and grant information (in English)! Click here to search for arts funding for your project

General / Not Discipline Specific

Canadian Heritage, through the Multiculturalism and Anti‑Racism Program – Events component (MARP Events), is looking to fund organizations to deliver public events that bring communities together and highlight diverse voices, histories, and artistic expressions. The submission period begins April 29, 2026 for events starting between December 1, 2026, and March 31.
→Deadline June 10 4pm. Click here for details

Canadian Heritage, through the Canada Arts Training Fund (CATF) supports arts training in Canada and contributes to the development of future artists and cultural leaders. To be eligible for funding, the applicant must be a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the arts or an equivalent Indigenous organization. Funding priorities are Indigenous and equity arts training.
→Deadline May 15. Click here for details

Canadian Heritage, through the Community Development through Arts and Heritage – Community Anniversaries component provides financial support to local groups for non-recurring events that mark the 100th anniversary or greater, in increments of 2 5years (e.g., 125th, 150th); of a significant local historical event or personality.
→Deadline May 31. 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

Call for film submissions for Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec
→Deadline June 8. Click here for details

Music & Sound

Performing Arts

Including Performance Art, Circus, Comedy, Interdisciplinary

LA SERRE — arts vivants is looking for emerging artists recently graduated — or with an unconventional artistic background. YOU ARE HERE is an intensive interdisciplinary creation residency that brings together 8 projects each year, led by creators in the performing arts. Next edition: October 25 to November 1, 2026
→Deadline June 11. 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.

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

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.

Repercussion Theatre in partnership with Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal is sending out an open call to local playwrights who might have something to say about Shakespeare for its 3rd edition of Words with Will! They will be selecting two writers who will get to develop their story with artistic and financial support. This includes a year-long partnership with a dramaturg, the culmination of your work in a workshop presentation and a $5000 grant!
→Deadline May 22. Click here for details

Continuité magazine is seeking professional writers.
→Deadline June 15 .Click here for details

The QWF Literary Awards are now accepting submissions for eight prizes:
The A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry; The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction; The Concordia University First Book Prize; The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction; Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole; The QWF Prize for Playwriting; The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize; The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
→Deadline June 3 5PM ET. 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

The Montreal International Poetry Prize 2026 is now open to submissions. Winner will receive $20 000.
→Deadline May 15. 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.