Grants for Literary Organizations Projects (Canada)

Deadline: 23-Mar-22

The Ontario Arts Council is currently seeking applications for its Literary Organizations Projects to support the professional presentation, and promotion of written and oral Canadian literature in Ontario, and the development of professional, ongoing arts and literary publishing capacity in the province.

Categories

The program has five categories:

• Festivals and fairs: events including an organized and multi-faceted program of literary activities that takes place within a defined and concentrated period of time of one or more days. Events may be focused on literary performance, the promotion and sale of Canadian books, or both.
• Performance series: event series that host regular events presenting literary performance to the public, including slams, storytelling series, and reading series.
• Development initiatives: activities and initiatives that benefit Ontario’s professional literary sector at large. This includes professional development for literary artists and arts workers, conferences, and other activities with a community impact.
• Literary book publishing: the publication of eligible Canadian-authored books in print and/or digital formats, for distribution to the public through an identified and viable market channel.
• Literary magazine publishing: the publication of a literary magazine featuring predominantly Canadian writers and artists in print and/or digital formats.

Funding Information

• Festivals and fairs: maximum $12,000
• Performance series: maximum $12,000
• Development initiatives: maximum $12,000
• Literary book publishing: maximum $12,000
• Arts magazine publishing: maximum $12,000

Important: Due to the number of applications received and the limited funds available, grants awarded may be smaller than the amount requested.

Eligibility Criteria

• The literary festival, performance series, and sector development categories are open to:
  • Ontario-based ad hoc groups and collectives
  • Ontario-based not-for-profit arts organizations
• Literary book and magazine publishing categories are open to:
  • not-for-profit arts organizations, as well as eligible for-profit book and magazine publishers, with a permanent physical address in Ontario, that
    • publish primarily in English;
    • have published no fewer than two eligible books or literary magazine issues in the 12 months prior to the program deadline, unless that publisher is an online magazine that has posted literary content regularly for the last 12 months;
    • are free to make their own editorial decisions and sign contracts in their own name; and
    • pay contributors’ fees or royalties and issue contributors’ contracts (note: all applicants must already be paying contributors)
• Publishers that are established on a for-profit basis, either as sole proprietorships or as incorporated organizations, must be Canadian-owned and -controlled with the head office (at least 50 percent of employees and editorial, management, and financial control) in Ontario.
• If the applicant has previously received three or more grants from this program, it must have published no fewer than two eligible books or arts magazine issues in the 12 months prior to the program deadline, unless that publisher is an online magazine that has posted arts content regularly for the last 12 months.

Important: Applicants must meet program and OAC eligibility criteria at the time of application and for the duration of your project.

Ineligible

• libraries, schools, or post-secondary institutions (a library or school can be the venue but not the applicant, publisher, or organizing host)
• municipalities, colleges, and universities, including magazines predominantly written or run by students, publishers whose publications are primarily prepared by students within the context of academic courses or training sessions, and publishers that are organizationally and editorially controlled by a university, college, or municipality
• publishers that devote the majority of their publishing program to works by writers and artists who have governance, ownership, employment, or volunteer relationships with the applicant
• publishers that primarily publish ineligible books, or publish an ineligible magazine 
• publishers that require contributors to pay fees or commit to purchasing completed publications
• publishers that are imprints, divisions, subsidiaries, or parent companies of applicants to this program or the Publishing Organizations: Operating program
• current recipients of an operating grant in the Literary Organizations: Operating program or the Publishing Organizations: Operating program
• current recipients of an operating grant in other OAC operating programs, with the exception of organizations, mandated to serve one or more of OAC’s priority groups.
• amateur, pre-professional, or student productions or projects

Important: Organizations applying as new applicants in the Literary Organizations: Operating program or Publishing Organizations: Operating program may apply only for projects taking place in their current fiscal year

For more information, visit Literary Organizations Projects.

For more information, visit https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/literary-organizations-projects