Deadline: 5 September 2024
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is providing grants through its Literary Creation Projects to support Ontario-based literary artists to complete new works for book-length publication or for public performance, and literary performers who wish to record their own repertoire.
Funding Information
- Creation of literary works for publication: $12,000.
Ineligible Funding
- writing for film, radio, television, theatre, or interactive digital media.
- manuscript evaluation
- editorial services
- publication expenses
- expenses incurred after the recording or publication of a completed work
- works in languages other than English. Projects in French are funded by the Littérature – projets francophones program, and works in Indigenous languages are funded by Indigenous Arts Projects
- creation of audiobooks, documentary recordings of writers performing work originally created for publication, and other types of recording of literature not created in the context of a tradition of literary performance
- major capital expenditures, including buying, leasing or renovating buildings and purchase of major equipment
Eligibility Criteria
- You must be an Ontario resident.
- Applicants whose professional publishing history makes them eligible to apply to Literary Creation Projects: Works for Publication may also apply if they have an eligible project.
- At least one traditionally published book (minimum of 48 pages) for which you have a publishing contract and receive royalties.
- At least three traditionally published short stories, comics, poems or other works for which you have received payment. Works can appear in magazines, newspapers, websites, and anthologies. Contest-winning work is considered publication.
- A professional self-publishing practice.
- Student or academic publications, including scholarly monographs and articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals, may not be used to establish eligibility.
- Work that you have done as part of your employment may not be used to establish eligibility, unless you are a professional journalist or a professional writer of narrative content or visual artist/illustrator for the comics, film, television, or interactive digital media sectors.
For more information, visit Ontario Arts Council.
