WRITING AND PUBLISHING

FUNDING, GRANTS & AWARDS

• Canada Council for the Arts

  Canada Council for the Arts is the national arts funding agency. This site provides information about the council’s grants to media artists, including travel grants, and grants available to aboriginal media artists. The council also administers a number of important awards and prizes.

• Canadian Writers Foundation (CWF)

  Founded in 1931, the foundation helps writers when they fall on hard times and are in extreme financial distress

• Community Arts Councils

  A number of municipalities and regions in Ontario have arts councils which are involved in encouraging and promoting local arts and cultural activities, and funding local organizations. Some offer grants or awards for artists. All have information of interest to local artists:

  1. Council for the Arts in Ottawa
  2. Guelph Arts Council
  3. Hamilton and Region Arts Council
  4. Kingston Arts Council
  5. London Arts Council
  6. Mississauga Arts Council
  7. Quinte Arts Council
  8. Scarborough Arts Council
  9. Thunder Bay Regional Arts Centre
  10. Toronto Arts Council
  11. Waterloo Regional Arts Council 
  12. Windsor and Region Arts Council

• Ontario Arts Council (OAC)

  OAC is the province’s primary funding body for professional arts activity. This site has information about project grants that may be available to individual artists. The OAC also administers a number of important awards and prizes.

• Prizes and Awards

  Artists working in writing and publishing may be eligible for a number of awards and prizes that are given by Canadian organizations. This site offers a comprehensive guide of the most important of these. In addition, there is the Giller Prize, with information available at and the Trillium Book Awards, administered by the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

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