Deadline: Ongoing
Applications are now open for the Songwriter Development Program to support professional songwriters writing for and with other artists in their continuing career development.
Funding Information
- The Songwriter Development program offers a $2,000 subsidy toward a year of songwriting initiatives, such as virtual, domestic and international travel for co-writing sessions and trips, songwriting camps and workshops, and eligible showcases. FACTOR will reimburse 75% of eligible costs up to $2,000.
Eligible Activities
- Eligible activities and costs in this program can include:
- In person co-writing trips or virtual songwriting sessions with artists or other songwriters, to create work for a music publisher or synchronization placement.
- Songwriting camps and workshops where the resulting songs are written for synchronization opportunities (for outside artists, for a music publisher, or the projects of the other writers participating in the writing sessions).
- Attendance at showcases (if participation is not eligible to be funded under FACTOR’s Live Performance program).
Eligible Costs
- Bona fide costs paid out-of-pocket by the applicant to providers that are not employed by or related parties to the applicant.
- Paid to Canadians and Canadian-owned and controlled companies, for goods and services delivered in Canada.
- Incurred after the application has been received at FACTOR. FACTOR may allow certain earlier costs on a case-by-case basis.
- Incurred and paid prior to the date of submission of the Completion, or prior to the final Completion deadline, whichever is earlier.
- Verifiable with invoices, receipts and proof of payment, submitted upon Completion. FACTOR reserves the right to contact the vendor, and to reject any costs it deems, in its sole opinion, insufficiently supported.
Eligibility Criteria
- Professional Songwriters are encouraged to apply.
- Other parties such as record labels, artist managers, producers, and music publishers may fill out the application on behalf of a songwriter; however, the songwriter must be the named Applicant and they must incur the costs directly. The costs may not be incurred by the label, manager, producer or publisher and then charged back to the songwriter.
- Applicants under 18 years of age must submit a signed Parent or Legal Guardian Consent Form.
- A songwriter may receive Songwriter Development funding once per FACTOR fiscal year, to a maximum of two Songwriter Development project supports in the lifetime of the program.
- Francophone songwriters who are writing primarily in French and developing their careers in a French-language market (e.g. Francophone Quebec, France) are expected to apply to Musicaction.
For more information, visit FACTOR.
