Literary Creation Projects (Works for Performance)
$15,000
Grant
Description:
The program supports 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.
Comments on Funding:
October 21, 2025, 1 p.m. ET
Eligibility:
Applicants must be an Ontario resident and have a recent professional history with a history of public performance in dub, sound or performance poetry, storytelling, ASL poetry or other performance literature forms.
Application Steps:
Applicants must complete and submit an application in Nova, OAC’s online grant application system. You will be able to do this approximately two months before the deadline.
Documentation Needed:
Applicants must submit:
1. basic information about your project
2. answers to application questions
3. artistic examples:
a. two audio or video recordings of you performing your recent work (maximum of five minutes total). Longer files may be uploaded, but if you do this please note appropriate cue points from which jurors may view or listen to five minutes of material. An optional transcript of the work featured in the audiovisual sample may be uploaded, formatted to the same specifications for poetry or prose
4. support documents:
a. a history of your performed literary work. You may also note key works in other areas of your artistic practice.
Other Things to Note:
About the author
Maurice
