Opportunities

Submissions to The New Quarterly Magazine

The New Quarterly holds two annual reading periods for each genre. Submissions sent between March 1 and August 31 will receive a response around late January. Submissions sent between September 1 and February 28 will receive a response around late August.

The New Quarterly publishes short fiction, poetry, postscripts, and nonfiction. The New Quarterly has a range of nonfiction series that focus on the writing life: day jobs, in conversation, on writing, soundings, “The Writer at Large”, and word & image. For most of these series, works are solicited from known writers, but if you have an essay that you think would be a perfect fit for one of these series, please forward it with a cover letter to info[at]tnq.ca.

All submissions are done online and no mail-in submissions will be accepted. Submit and see full details at https://tnq.ca/submit/.

Banff Centre Literary Arts Residency

Banff Centre is excited to announce their new Literary Arts residencies, as well as the 2024 Mountain Writers Intensive and Independent Residency at Leighton Artist Studios. Please contact arts_info@banffcentre.ca with any questions.

Winter Writers Residency – 2025
A self-directed program offering time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and re-energize their practice.
Application deadline: September 11, 2024 | Program dates: January 13–24, 2025

Literary Journalism: Environmental Writing – February 2025
This residency is for writers who are exploring, testing, witnessing, and reporting back on universal environmental concerns. Scholarship of 100% is available and will be applied to cover tuition, meals and accommodation costs.
Application deadline: October 2, 2024 | Program dates: February 24 – March 7, 2025

Please contact arts_info@banffcentre.ca with any inquiries.

The McLoughlin Gardens Residency for Canadian Children’s Authors

The deadline for applications is September 15, 2024. Applicants will be notified by October 31, 2024.

The McLoughlin Gardens welcomes applications from established Canadian children’s authors for a four-week residency in the summer of 2025.

The residency is located at the Brian and Sarah McLoughlin Regional Park in Merville, halfway between the Comox Valley and Campbell River, on the east coast of Vancouver Island. Built in 1976, the three-bedroom cottage was designed by landscape artist and master gardener Sarah McLoughlin. Surrounded by mature gardens, the cottage has magnificent views of the sea and the coastal range of mainland British Columbia. The semi-remote setting provides an ideal site for creative work.

The writer’s time will be divided between pursuing personal writing projects and providing literary advice and support to the local community, with writing time favoured on a 60/40 basis. An honorarium of $3,000 for the four-week residency will be provided.

The McLoughlin Gardens is particularly interested in proposals that speak to their vision: to nurture the transformative power of art, nature, and story in creating a more just, sustainable, and equitable world.

See the full call for applications at https://www.mcloughlingardens.org/literary-arts.

The Ex-Puritan is Seeking Submissions

Submissions received by September 25, 2024, are considered for the Fall issue in November.
Submissions received by December 25, 2024, are considered for the Winter issue in February.

All submissions will receive a decision within four months of the submission date.

Regular submissions to the magazine are free of charge and should fall under one of six categories: fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, reviews, and experimental/hybrid work. To submit to the experimental/hybrid section of the magazine, email the section editors at hybrid.experimental@ex-puritan.ca. All other submissions must go through Submittable.

Current publication rates (as of Fall 2022) are $100 per interview or review, $200 per essay, $150 per work of fiction, $50 per poem or $100 per poet if multiple poems are accepted, and $50+ per experimental or hybrid work (all rates are CAD).

If you haven’t heard back within four months or for any other query, email editors@ex-puritan.ca. Email submissions are not accepted and will be discarded.

See full details at https://ex-puritan.ca/submissions.

Accepting Submissions to Workers of the Warming World Unite! Poetry Anthology

The submission deadline is October 31, 2024.

Has your job, workplace, industry, or livelihood been affected by changing environmental conditions? This anthology is seeking submissions of poems about work in the age of global warming that are:

• insider poems by working people who are doing or have done the work they write about
• poems about all kinds of work, including the trades, online work, unpaid labour, customer service, care work, medical work and healthcare, migrant and precarious labour, traditional and subsistence labour, agriculture, the gig economy, internships and student labour, and more
• poems by workers from underrepresented groups—especially Indigenous, racialized, migrant, 2SLGBTQ+, disabled, Elders and elderly, women, and non-binary workers
• poems written in any style or form, with new or previously unpublished poets welcome

Please submit up to 3 previously unpublished poems to workandclimatepoetry@gmail.com by October 31.

Visit workandclimatepoetryanthology.wordpress.com for more information including upcoming writing workshops.

King’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction

Applications for both Creative Nonfiction and Fiction open October 15, 2024, and close March 15, 2025.

The University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is delighted to welcome applicants in both creative nonfiction and fiction to this unique limited-residency Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs. Ideal for students who wish to remain in their home communities while receiving the support, structure, and networking opportunities of one of Canada’s top MFA programs, the King’s MFA programs offer instruction in both the craft of writing and the business of publishing.

Depending on their program of study, students focus solely on either creative nonfiction or fiction, take part in in-person and online residencies, and work one-to-one with their mentor-teachers. The fiction program welcomes applicants interested in commercial and genre fiction—mystery, science fiction, fantasy, young adult, romance, and more—as well as literary fiction.

You can find out more through their website at https://ukings.ca/area-of-study/writing-and-publishing/.

Open Submissions to McClelland & Stewart – Penguin Random House Canada

The next open submission period will be March 1 – 31, 2025.
Submissions of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction are open once a year from March 1 – 31.

McClelland & Stewart is opening their submission policy as part of their ongoing commitment to amplify and prioritize the voices of Black, Indigenous, and racialized writers, as well as those of other traditionally underrepresented communities. During the months of March and September, unsolicited and unagented work can be sent directly to editors within the M&S division at mcclellandsubmissions@prh.com.

McClelland & Stewart editors are looking for high quality literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Visit their about us page to learn more about their mission and the books they publish. Screenplays, stage plays, young adult fiction, or picture book queries are not accepted. You can take a look at the work they publish here.

A great submission typically includes a strong letter of intent detailing your project, a list of a few book comparisons (“comps”) that give an idea of the literary company in which you see your project living, a bio, and as much of the work itself as you’re able to share as a .doc attachment or a PDF. For fiction and poetry, you are encouraged to submit the full manuscript. For non-fiction, a preliminary chapter list with a short one to two sentence blurb about each chapter, along with a writing sample, is expected.

Heroines Anthology – Volume 6: Call For Submissions

Submissions close June 30, 2025.

Heroines Anthology publishes literary writing by women. The anthology focuses on telling women’s lost history, untold stories, and myths, fairy tales, folklore, or legends reimagined from the perspective of their women characters.

The special theme for this edition is witchcraft: from the history of witches and witch trials, to medicine women, mystics and herbalists, spells and enchantments, shapeshifters and familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. This volume welcomes writing on witchcraft as the old religion, remembered or imagined, and the depiction of witches in fairytale, folklore, literature and film (both good and bad) across cultures.

This will be the Heroines Anthology’s sixth edition. Before submission, writers are strongly advised to read a previous volume of Heroines Anthology to get a feel for what the editors are looking for and to check what stories and myths have already been covered. Anthology copies can be ordered at a 10% discount. All submissions are considered for the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize.

Find out more & submit at https://www.theneoperennialpress.com/heroinesanthologysubmissions.

Arc Poetry Magazine Submission Period

Arc accepts unsolicited submissions from poets at all stages of their writing careers during their Spring and Fall submission periods.

Arc pays for poetry at the rate of $50 per page, with which Arc secures First Cana­dian Serial Rights (meaning that the poems should not appear in any print or digital publication before being published by Arc). Upon pub­li­ca­tion, all rights revert to the author and payment is mailed, as well as one free copy of the issue in which the work appears.

Arc accepts pre­vi­ously unpub­lished poetry in English or pre­vi­ously unpub­lished translations of poetry into English, on any sub­ject and in any form. Poets may only submit once per calendar year. Poetry submissions must not exceed three poems or 360 lines of poetry. Submissions of more than one poem must be broken up into two or three files and submitted separately on Submittable, along with the poet’s biog­ra­phy. Arc only accepts poetry submissions using the online submission manager Submittable, except when otherwise indicated. Arc does not accept paper poetry submissions. Submissions received by mail will not be read and will not receive a response.

Arc aims to respond to unso­licited sub­mis­sions of poetry within four to six months. Arc cannot promise to respond to inquiries regard­ing the sta­tus of sub­mis­sions before the com­ple­tion of the submission period.

See full submission guidelines at https://arcpoetry.ca/resources/general-submissions/.

Submit to Broken Pencil Magazine

Broken Pencil is a quarterly magazine of zine culture and the independent arts based in Toronto, ON. Broken Pencil is looking for works of fiction from diverse writers (broadly defined) that conform to no principles, no guidelines, and no preconceptions. We want work that is quirky, surprising, moving, and raw. Solid, well-written, carefully considered prose showing a strong grasp of the mechanics of grammar and syntax is always a pleasure to read. To get a sense of the work Broken Pencil publishes, take a moment to read a few issues of the magazine to see if yours would be a good fit. Please, no COVID-19 pandemic stories.

Stories should be no longer than 3,000 words. Payment varies, depending on the status of finances. Pay right now is between $60 and $120 per piece.

Please be patient. Broken Pencil reads fiction submissions year round, but due to the volume of submissions, it might take a while to get back to you, but every story you send is read with consideration and care. Do not submit more than one story at a time and do not submit more than once every six months.

Read more about Broken Pencil at http://www.brokenpencil.com.

Submit your work at https://brokenpencil.submittable.com/submit.

Submit to Prism international Magazine

Submissions are accepted year-round.

Due to the high volume of submissions received each month, reply times range between six to twelve months, depending on the time of year. Prism is currently experiencing a backlog. Please do not reach out to check on the status of your submission. Your submission remains under review unless marked “declined”.

PRISM international publishes exciting, original, literary material from established and emerging writers in Canada and around the world. PRISM does not publish the same writer twice in a publication year. Submissions must be made through Submittable and are not accepted via email or mail (the only exception is for incarcerated writers). There is a $3.00 reading fee per submission.

Click here to submit.
If you have any questions about these guidelines or a piece you’ve already submitted, please email Natasha at prose@prismmagazine.ca.

Submit up to four poems, to a maximum of six pages. Do NOT submit six one-page poems. Cross-genre and interdisciplinary poetry and poetics are welcome.
Click here to submit poetry. 
If you have any questions about these guidelines or a piece you’ve already submitted, please email Dora at poetry@prismmagazine.ca.

Poetry and prose translations into English are also welcome. Such works must be undertaken with the permission of the original author. Please include a copy of the original work with your submission.

See full submission details at http://prismmagazine.ca/submit/.

Publishing House Looking for Manuscripts

Authors Get Published is an online boutique publishing house located in Toronto, Ontario. They are a full-service publishing house that publishes first-time and seasoned authors on their journey to become published authors, by providing book cover creation, manuscript editing services, formatting, and more. Distributed through Ingram, Authors Get Published work to ensure that each author’s book or books receive maximum visibility online through their website and online platforms where books are sold. If you would like to submit your manuscript for consideration, please email the Editor-in-Chief Christine at Christine@AuthorsGetPublished.com. They get back to every submission within 2 weeks. Please refer to their website for complete manuscript submission details.

Black Romance Book Club

Tanya Lee, the founder of A Room of Your Own, a national book club for at risk teen girls, introduces The Black Romance Book Club, a new subscription-based program that includes monthly book club meetings with the book authors. The Black Romance Book Club was created to promote more black romances to be written in Canada about black love taking place in Canada. Black writers and those who would like to learn how to write romance novels to start promoting black love in Canada are needed!

The program will be hybrid in person and online. It will take place at the Hamilton Art Gallery starting in September. The Black Romance Book Club costs $80/month and includes monthly meetings with book authors as well as writing workshops for anyone interested in becoming a romance author themselves. Monthly subscription fees will go towards author fees for hotel, transportation and food for in person events. This will also support hosting fees, venue space, and technology fees.  Lee has also set the subscription fees to ensure that the authors get paid their due, and fees will also go towards a donation to a domestic violence shelter.

CBC produced a radio documentary on A Room of Your Own: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/how-this-book-club-helps-teenage-girls-across-canada-discuss-tough-topics-1.6363198

CBC wrote an article about The Black Romance Book Club:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-book-club-black-romance-1.6521902

Sign up by emailing Programming@artgalleryofhamilton.com.

Atmosphere Press Call for Submissions!

Deadline: Ongoing

Atmosphere Press currently seeks great manuscripts from diverse (feminist!) voices. This year Atmosphere authors have sold thousands of books across five continents, received featured reviews with Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist, and have even appeared on a giant billboard in Times Square. And they’d love to see what you’ve written!

Call for Pitches to Rebel Women Lit (RWL)

Deadline: Ongoing

Rebel Women Lit (RWL) publishes discussions on contemporary literary culture, interviews with writers, reviews of publications (creative and scholarly) related to the Caribbean, the African diaspora, and Black Feminism, as well as short fiction and poetry by emerging and established Caribbean writers.

RWL invites submissions of:

• • • • • discussion essays on contemporary literary culture (700-1,500 words)
        • discussion essays on contemporary Caribbean social justice issues (700-1,500 words)
        • critical reviews of scholarly or creative literary works (1,000-1,200 words)
        • interviews with Caribbean & African authors and/or literary scholars (2,000-2,500 words)
        • poems and short fiction (maximum 4,000 words) from emerging and established Caribbean and African writers

RWL publishes one post per week and accepts submissions on a rolling basis. You are kindly asked that you do not write a piece before pitching it to the RWL editors, unless you are submitting a short story or poem for consideration in the Arts section. Please review the style requirements below and adhere to the word limits for all submissions.

Permissions:
Contributors are responsible for obtaining written permission to reprint and reproduce any material. Similarly, it is the responsibility of contributors to supply the source of all previously published material. Accepted writers will be compensated a small stipend of $20 – $30 USD for each piece.

Reviews:
Reviews should be preceded by the full name of the author, the title, city, press, and year of publication.

Interviews:
Interviews must begin with a short paragraph that includes information about the interviewee, the date and general purpose of the interview. The first question must be preceded by the full name of the interviewer and a colon, in bold. The first response should be preceded by the full name of the interviewee and a colon, in bold. Subsequent questions and responses should be preceded by initials and colons, in bold.

Pitches:
Pitches should be summarized in four to eight sentences. All pitches must include the subject of your writing or review, the main topics and/or themes to be critically explored, and the relevance to the RWL community.

https://www.rebelwomenlit.com/pitch

Call for Creative Professionals at Book Development Company Creative Connex

Creative Connex is a new book development company that assists aspiring and experienced authors to bring their story to life by delivering a print ready book. Experienced creative professionals are needed to join and complement an exceptional team, specifically freelance writers, editors, illustrators, translators, layout designers and cover designers. Experience in the publishing industry would be a huge bonus! If you or someone you know are interested, please either email Steve at info@creativeconnex.ca or call 888-470-4873.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6780528022454980609/

Creative Connex was founded on a simple vision: Provide the opportunity for an individual who has a story or an idea of a story to connect with a team of publishing professionals. Working together, they create a published book. There are a million stories out there. Let Creative Connex help you tell yours.

Grants as Additional Investment for the Arts

As announced in the Economic Statement released in fall 2020, the federal government is investing $181.5 million in the Supporting Arts and Live Events Workers in Response to COVID-19 Initiative to stimulate employment in the arts and culture sector, support ongoing operations during the pandemic, and prepare for the sustainable recovery of the sector.

Canadian Heritage will be distributing $65 million, and the Canada Council for the Arts will invest the remaining $116.5 million.

Explore and Create: Additional Funding

The Council is investing a portion of the additional one-time funding in the Research and Creation and Concept to Realization components of its Explore and Create program. Program guidelines and eligibility remain unchanged.

The Professional Development for Artists component of Explore and Create supports the career growth of Canadian artists and artistic groups by encouraging participation in a wide range of development opportunities. Grants fund activities that contribute to the professional advancement of Canadian artists working in all artistic disciplines. Support for professional development activities and career advancement, including but not limited to mentorships, internships, apprenticeships, specialized training, and workshops.

The Research and Creation component of Explore and Create supports the initial stages of the creative process. Canadian artists, artistic groups and arts organizations can apply to develop and make creative works. Grants of up to $25,000 provide support for creative research, creation and project development.

Projects involving production and/or post-production of a final work must apply to Concept to Realization.

See https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/grants/deadlines for the cut-off dates and notification times.

Call for Submissions James Lorimer & Company

James Lorimer & Company, an independent book publisher located in Toronto, is looking for writers to contribute to their children’s and teens publishing program.

James Lorimer & Company is seeking fiction, non-fiction and graphic novel manuscripts by Canadian creators for its children’s and teens’ imprint. The goal of this publishing program is to provide engaging, accessible books for young people that address social-justice and human-rights issues as they uniquely affect Canadian society or individual Canadians. The aim is to reflect a diverse range of cultural, regional, and socio-economic experiences and issues in the books they publish. Recent publishing success include their collection of LGBTQ+ romances for teens (Real Love series), a non-fiction series on young people who have been wrongfully convicted (Real Justice series), and Indigenous titles, such as the graphic novel If I Go Missing and the young adult novel The Missing. Submissions can be emailed to submissions@lorimer.ca and should include a cover letter, a short biography outlining your past writing experience and qualifications, a plot summary or outline, a chapter-by-chapter outline and 3–4 sample chapters or a complete manuscript.

Call for Submissions to Canadian Writers Abroad Website

Canadian Writers Abroad is looking for book reviews, interviews, or pieces from writers who have lived at least six months abroad, or who have travelled to research their book. The website was founded and is still run by Canadian Authors Association member Debra Martens, and began as a volunteer project to promote the work of Canadian authors who live, or lived, outside of Canada. Debra Martens writes much of the content and openly invites others to contribute. Submitting to the site provides self-promotion opportunities but does not provide monetary payment at this time. Canadian Writers Abroad will be celebrating it’s tenth anniversary in 2021.

F(r)iction: Call for Submissions

Submission Guidelines

• • • • • Short fiction: 1,001 – 7,500 words
        • Creative nonfiction: up to 6,500 words
        • Poetry: three pages or less per poem, up to five poems per submission
        • Flash fiction: 1,000 words or less

• • • • • All genres are welcome, but especially those that celebrate the weird, take risks with form and content, and are driven by a strong, unique voice.
        • All work must be previously unpublished. This means if your work has appeared in any print or online source (this includes personal blogs, websites, and social media pages), we cannot accept it.
        • Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us immediately by choosing “withdraw” in Submittable if your work is selected for publication elsewhere.
        • Submit as many pieces as you’d like.

The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia Establishes Greg Younging Undergraduate Award in Publishing Studies

The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (ABPBC), in partnership with the Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University, is pleased to announce the launch of the Greg Younging Undergraduate Award in Publishing Studies, which will help support the training of emerging Indigenous publishers in Canada.

The award was established in memory of Dr. Gregory Younging (1961–2019), publisher at Theytus Books and a member of the ABPBC board of directors at the time of his death. Greg graduated from the SFU Master of Publishing Program in 2000 and later taught as adjunct faculty. A member of Opaskwayak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba, Greg was Assistant Director of Research for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and led the Canadian publishing industry in responding to their calls to action, advocating for Indigenous editorial agency and serving as a trusted resource for publishers of Indigenous texts. He was the author of The Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples (2018), now considered an indispensable resource for North American publishers. The ABPBC honoured him in 2018 with the Gray Campbell Award Distinguished Service Award, in recognition of his work as an advocate for Indigenizing Canadian publishing.

At least one award, valued at a minimum of $1,000, will be granted annually in any term to an undergraduate student who meets the following criteria:

• • • • • is enrolled full-time during the term of eligibility;
        • has declared a minor in Print and Digital Publishing;
        • is in good academic standing;
        • is Indigenous; and
        • has been actively involved in community service.

“We appreciate the support of Greg’s family for this initiative, in particular his parents, George Ing and his mother, the late Dr. Rosalyn Ing,” said Heidi Waechtler, executive director of the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia. “We are proud to be able to recognize Greg’s life and legacy in this way, and to help carry on the work he did to support emerging publishing professionals.” Suzanne Norman, lecturer and industry liaison for the Publishing Program at SFU, commented, “Greg’s contribution to publishing education and his work around Indigenous editorial protocols, have been pivotal in establishing a larger space for Indigenous writers, designers, publishers, and editors in Canada. He would be so proud of this new scholarship. His work with SFU may have begun in 1997, but his contributions continue and his work will always play a large role in the future of the SFU Publishing Program.”

Additional donations to the Greg Younging Undergraduate Award in Publishing at SFU can be made through Simon Fraser University’s Advancement Department.

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