Submit Applications for Literature French Speaking Projects - Canada

Submissions are now open for Literature French Speaking Projects to support literary activities through grants to artists, ad hoc groups, collectives, and Francophone organizations in Ontario.

Category

Grant

The Program Aims To

The program aims to reflect the range of artistic practices in the French literature community in Ontario by highlighting the following genres:

• Poetry
• Novel
• Short story
• Dramatic writing (play)
• Children's and young adult literature
• Literary or artistic criticism
• Essay
• Work of reflection and analysis that is not academic in nature
• Memoir
• Biography
• Comic strip
• Graphic novel
• Dub poetry
• Vocal poetry
• Performance poetry
• Storytelling
• Other genres of oral literature

Categories

The program has three categories:

• Creation – Book-length Work: To allow writers to continue or complete writing a book-length work.
• Creation/Recording – Oral Literature Work: To enable oral literature artists (e.g., literary performance, storytelling) to create a work for public performance or to record their own repertoire.
• Presentation/Influence: To enable ad hoc groups, collectives, and organizations to implement projects whose objective is to vitalize the French-speaking literary sector (e.g., collective writing projects, presentations of works to an audience, meetings).

Funding Information

• Creation – Book-length Work: Maximum $12,000
• Creation/Recording – Oral Literature Work: Maximum $8,000
• Presentation/Influence: Maximum $12,000

Eligibility Criteria

Creation and Creation/Recording Categories:

• Professional authors and spoken word artists who reside in Ontario.
• Applicants must meet one of the following conditions:
  • Have published at least one book with a recognized publisher.
  • Have published at least three separate pieces of work (essays, short stories, poems, etc.) for which you have been paid.
  • Hold a publishing contract for a first work (other than the one that is the subject of the application).
  • Have written a play that has been published or professionally produced.
  • Have written a feature film that has been broadcast at a festival, on television, or in theaters.
  • Be a professional screenwriter with at least two writing production credits for which you have been paid.
  • Have a track record of public presentations of dub poetry, sound poetry, performance poetry, storytelling, or other genres of oral literature. Reading of texts is eligible only if it is of a highly performative nature.
• Individual artists representing a group of artists – One of the artists must apply on behalf of the group. If the grant is awarded, this artist will receive a T4A slip and assume responsibility for the grant on behalf of the collaborators.

Presentation/Influence Category:

• Ad hoc groups and non-profit collectives composed of professional literary artists, with at least 50% of the members residing in Ontario.
• Non-profit organizations with a head office in Ontario.
• Book and periodical publishers whose head office is in Ontario. They may be of the following types:
  • A not-for-profit corporation incorporated in Ontario and having its head office in Ontario
  • A national not-for-profit corporation headquartered in Ontario

Ineligibility Criteria

Creation and Creation/Recording Categories:

• Non-professional authors

Presentation/Influence Category:

• Municipalities, colleges, and universities
• Companies incorporated for profit
• Organizations that receive an operating grant from the CAO of the Francophone Arts Service Organizations – Operation program

For More Information

Visit Ontario Arts Council for further details.

Donor Name: Ontario Arts Council
Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000
Publish Date: September 9, 2024
Deadline Date: October 3, 2024
Country: Canada