Opportunities

Call for Submissions to There’s No Place, Tales of Home by Storytellers Who Have Experienced Homelessness

Submissions are open from July 1, 2022, to September 30, 2022. Publication is scheduled for fall of 2023.

There’s No Place is a pro-rate anthology of short fiction pieces on the theme of “home”. This will be a collection where storytellers who are experiencing/have experienced homelessness can tell the tales that live inside them. “Home” is not limited to physical spaces; home can be a person, an item, a memory, a sensation. The theme can be interpreted broadly, but home should be at the heart of your story. While lived experience will inform the stories told, our hope is to share tales of home imagined into being. This collection will be limited to short stories, fiction only.

Only people with lived experience of homelessness can submit. If you are unsure if your experience meets the parameters of this call, please reach out to the editor at tnpanthology@gmail.com.

There are people who are disproportionately overrepresented in experiencing homelessness, poverty, and marginalization. Often these same voices are underrepresented in publishing. As publishers of diverse Canadian voices, Renaissance Press prioritizes stories by and about marginalized people, specifically people of colour (especially Black and Indigenous people of colour), members of the LGBTQIA2P+ community, and disabled people (including chronically ill and mentally ill people). If you are a member of a marginalized group, we encourage you to self-identify in your submissions.

There’s No Place is open to fiction flash and short stories about home told in any genre. If your story is in a galaxy far, far away, if it’s about true love, if it’s set in a fantasy locale, if it is eerie or scary, you are welcome to submit. Submissions will not be automatically rejected based on genre but must be 500 – 3,500 words.

See full details here: https://pressesrenaissancepress.ca/2022/06/29/call-for-submissions/.

Call for Applications: Features Editor of The Walrus

The Walrus provokes new thinking and sparks conversation on matters vital to Canadians. As a registered charity, The Walrus publishes independent, fact-based journalism, produces national, ideas-focused events, and trains emerging professionals in publishing and non-profit management. The Walrus is invested in the idea that a healthy society relies on informed citizens.

The Walrus is seeking a Features Editor to join their editorial staff. This is a one-year contract position, starting December 5, 2022.

The Features Editor will commission and edit articles suited to a national general interest audience. Those subjects will include The Walrus’s core areas of focus in science, business, politics, arts and culture, and Canada’s place in the world. The ideal candidate is a seasoned editor with at least three to five years’ experience in a publishing environment.

Recognizing the range of editorial platforms at The Walrus, the Features Editor is a story-driven journalist who desires to create work that will engage our audience and spark conversations on any platform: print, digital, multimedia. But the successful candidate will be first and foremost a strong substantive and line editor who can take multiple stories per month through production. The publishing schedule at The Walrus includes daily, weekly, and long-term deadlines, and the successful candidate is expected to work quickly and collaboratively.

The Walrus supports diversity and inclusion while working to fulfill their educational mandate. The Walrus values employment equity and strongly encourages applications from Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people; people with disabilities; people of all genders; and LGBTQ2+ people. If you require any accommodation in the recruitment process, let them know by email at careers@thewalrus.ca.

The office is located in downtown Toronto, but staff is based across Canada. Though this position will be remote or hybrid for the foreseeable future, applicants must be eligible to work in Canada to qualify. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

The compensation package includes a salary of $55,000 – $60,000 and 10 paid vacation days.

To apply, send a cover letter and resumé to careers@thewalrus.ca with the subject line “Features Editor [first and last name]” by 11:59 pm. EST on October 14, 2022.

Call for Submissions to Canada: Brave New World

Deadline for submissions is November 1, 2022.

Author and CAA Member at Large Elaine Cougler is seeking contributions for an anthology to be published in 2023, in time for the July 1 Canada Day celebrations.

The book length publication of Canada: Brave New World will feature unique and true stories of people who escaped their homeland and settled in Canada as a result of the Second World War or because of other warring troubles in their home countries. The publication will show that Canada is made up of amazingly strong people who escaped something bad and created something good.

The submissions may be written by the participant or by relatives or friends of the participants. This is a chance to shine the light on true family stories which may not ever have been told in a formal way. Submissions should be fully edited short stories, essays, book chapters, short novellas, or poems written by the person submitting about people who ended up in Canada.

You may query Elaine Cougler, Editor and Publisher of Peache House Press, with your idea before submitting your entry, or simply submit the entry. Entries must be submitted in print form and Word or .pdf form on or before November 1, 2022, to:
Elaine Cougler (Peache House Press)
21-500 Lakeview Drive
Woodstock, ON, N4T 1W4

Entries may include a short bio, contact link and/or one social media link. Please use a short link created by a company such as Bitly.com. The editor will contact you with any editing issues or other questions, which must be resolved by January 31, 2023. You will receive an email indicating acceptance of your final submission for the anthology.

The proposed publication date is May 31, 2023, in time for the Canada Day celebrations. For more information contact Elaine Cougler at elaine@elainecougler.com, 519-532-4870, or her website at www.elainecougler.com.

Call for Submissions to Mighty

Submissions begin on September 15, 2022. Stories and entry forms must be received by November 14, 2022, at 11:59 pm EDT.

All too often in popular media, disability is used as shorthand to say a character is helpless or weak. A victim. And if that character is a superpowered person, their disability becomes something for them to overcome or cure in order for them to become a hero. Renaissance Press wants to challenge those tropes and celebrate characters who are disabled and still save the day, whose abilities and disabilities are equally important aspects of their lives and identities.

The fiction story submissions must range from 500 to 3,500 words. Renaissance Press is looking for stories about disabled characters being empowered and living full lives while still being disabled, stories that play around with tired clichés and tropes about disability, stories about and by people at the intersection of disability and other identities that have been traditionally excluded from publishing (this includes but is not limited to people of color, LGBTQ+ folks, religious minorities, women, older adults, etc.), cross-genre stories, and humor.

To submit, please start by formatting your story in as close to Shunn standard manuscript formatting as possible and saving it as a .doc or .docx. Remove any identifying information from your manuscript except for the title, and submit the identifying information via the Google form.

There are two ways to submit: Renaissance Press strongly prefers receiving all your information via Google form, including your manuscript, but doing so requires you to have a Google or Gmail account. If you have or can obtain a Google/Gmail account, please simply fill out this Google form.

See full details here: https://pressesrenaissancepress.ca/2022/06/29/call-for-submissions-mighty/.

Invitation to Apply for Free One Year Membership to The League of Canadian Poets

The League of Canadian Poets is currently offering one free year of membership to deserving and qualified poets. Between 2022 and 2023, the League of Canadian Poets will be inviting poets to apply for a free year of membership in the organization. This initiative is intended to ensure that the League is diverse, inclusive, and truly representative of the poetry community in Canada, and will give poets the opportunity to get engaged with the League, qualify for some of our member-only programs and resources, and to get involved with other poets from many different areas.

Member poets and members of the poetry community are invited to self-nominate, or to nominate others for this offer. You can nominate a talented poet you know here: https://airtable.com/shr7z5MH1yoWolkN3.

Poets who qualify for this free year of membership will still need to complete the membership application process but will be able to engage with the community for one year at no cost.  All information about membership levels and benefits can be found here: Join the League! – League of Canadian Poets. If you have any questions about this membership drive, you can contact Nic Brewer at nicole@poets.ca.

Staff will reach out to nominees to offer them the support they need to apply and receive a free year of membership. Nominees will be contacted between the 1st and 10th of each month.

Poet nomination form: Membership with the League of Canadian Poets (airtable.com)

You’re also welcome to send the application form along directly to poets you think may be interested: https://airtable.com/shrf7akFEfY4kZhzv.

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.

Austin Film Festival Reader Outreach

Leacock Medal 75th Anniversary Podcast Series

This year, 2022, marks the 75th anniversary of Canada’s premier humour-writing award, and Dick Bourgeois-Doyle, author of What’s So Funny? Lessons from the Leacock Medal for Humuor, is developing a podcast series, The Mariposa Podcast, celebrating past winners of the award. It features interviews with scholars and other experts as well as authors.

See more details at Stephen Leacock Associates.

Any CAA member who has a special interest in early winners of the award and would like to be interviewed for the series can contact Dick at bourgeoisdoyle@gmail.com.

Jennifer Harris is Seeking Submissions for New Book Entitled Whisper Their Names

Jennifer Harris, member of Canadian Authors-Peterborough, is currently writing a new book which will be called Whisper Their Names. This book deals with the heartbreak of losing your child. After nursing for thirty-five years, Jennifer realized many people have lost a child, but it’s something that is rarely talked about it. She decided to approach all types of loss in this book, as there are times when you lose your child from situations other than death. Such situations could be adoption, divorce, estrangement, or drug addiction. The book will also deal with the loss of a young child, abortion, stillborn, miscarriage, childhood loss, violent death, and the loss of an adult child. This book seeks to discuss unspoken feelings, anger, guilt, etc., and explore parents’ experiences through their words, but also focus on learning to live again, with joy and happiness, in spite of and in addition to their grief. Topics to be explored will also include cultural beliefs and the deeper thought of the meaning of life, hints from beyond, and acceptance of faith or lack of. This is meant to be a book of nonjudgment, to give people hope that they can have a meaningful and even happy life moving forward after the worst has happened.

Jennifer is seeking submissions of your stories, what helped and didn’t, and is particularly looking for submissions from those who have lost children through divorce, estrangement, violent death, or addiction. Submissions from moms and dads are equally welcome. If you aren’t comfortable writing, Jennifer can accept voice recordings and provide a tape recorder if need be. If you are interested in participating, you can find Jennifer at https://jenniferharrisauthor.com/, or email her at jenniferharris8549@gmail.com.

Share Your Story of Cultural Resilience

There is no doubt that the pandemic has been very difficult for many artists and cultural workers. Abundant evidence of this has come from surveys (such as the National Arts and Culture Impact Survey) and broad employment and economic indicators (analyzed by CAPACOA).

However, in the midst of these harsh realities, there have been powerful stories of innovation and resilience from artists and cultural organizations.

A new research-action initiative aims to discover dynamic examples of cultural innovation and to amplify these success stories. Cultural Resilience: Using Innovation to Stabilize in Times of Crisis is a multi-year project of The Creative City Network of Canada in partnership with the Cultural Human Resources Council and Les Arts et la Ville.

Hill Strategies is leading the research for the first phase of this project, while its second phase involves professional development to transmit key learnings to other cultural organizations and artists, with the goal of building resilience within the arts and heritage sector.

The research team is seeking stories of innovation (whether digital or analog) that are expected to have a lasting impact on the organization or artist. Of particular interest are stories from which other organizations or artists could learn.

Do you have a compelling story of cultural resilience to share? Stories submitted at www.culturalresilience.ca will be listed and amplified for at least one year (from August 2021 to August 2022). Some stories will be investigated further, profiled online, and featured in subsequent training programs, all of which will help create a community of learning. Submit your story today!

Thanks go out to the funders who have made this important work possible: Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.

Call for Submissions to The Moderate Review

Newly established online journal The Moderate Review, showcasing both established and emerging literary talents, invites your words and voices to the ongoing creative discussion.

The Moderate Review accepts short stories, poems, nonfiction, paintings, sculptures, 280 character stories (they will be tweeted if selected), music, spoken word. The divisions between these art forms are arbitrary. Blur them.

Currently accepting submissions on a rolling basis with no deadlines or publishing dates.

Submissions should be sent as a word attachment to moderatereview@gmail.com. There are no word limits, guidelines, or restrictions. However, all submissions must be original work and not previously published.

www.themoderatereview.org

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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