Literary Creation Projects (Works for Performance)
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.
Offered by Ontario Arts Council (OAC)
Amount
Creation of literary works for performance: $5,000; recording of literary works created for performance: up to $10,000; creation and recording of literary works for performance: up to $15,000
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Who can apply
You 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.
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.
Read the Guide to OAC Project Programs for more eligibility information.
The activities for which you are requesting funding:
- cannot finish before you receive your grant results
- the activity funded must be completed no more than two years after you receive the grant results. If you receive a creation-only grant you may continue to work on your funded work after this date, but your grant must be fully spent by this time. Recording projects must be completed within this two-year period.
Not eligible:
Ineligible applicants
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
The following types of work are not eligible
children’s picture books
projects for which the author and/or illustrator do not own the intellectual property rights to their characters and/or narrative
commissioned adaptations of works in other media
play, film, broadcast, or interactive digital media scripts
books that are part of educational or academic programs
books that are to be ghost-written or for which the author is to be uncredited (including books where the applicant will not be identified as the author under their own name or a pseudonym that they use only for their own work
activity books, directories, index compilations, bibliographies with minimal critical content, travel guidebooks, instruction or self-help books, manuals, cookbooks, exhibition catalogues
commissioned industrial or business histories, or commissioned biographies
professional reference books aimed at a specialized audience
calendars, daybooks, agendas or almanacs or other books with minimal written content, except as provided for in comic arts eligibility criteria
books written primarily for an educational or scholarly market
manuscripts that are intended for publication in books that will include other authors as well (such as fiction anthologies
About the funding
- Creation of literary works for performance: $5,000
- Recording of literary works that are created for performance: up to $10,000
- Creation and recording of literary works for performance: up to $15,000
Important
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: Due to the number of applications received and the limited funds available, grants awarded in the second and third categories may be smaller than the amount requested.
- creation and recording of original literary work for performance
- performance literatures include but are not limited to spoken word, storytelling, sound poetry, dub poetry and American Sign Language (ASL) literature
- creation grants through this program fund the time and activities needed to continue work in progress for the project(s) described in your application. Eligible expenses include:
- Artist fees – payment to yourself for your time in working on this project. The program does not fund living and personal expenses – do not include these as the rationale for the calculation of artist fees.
- Research expenses, including travel and accommodation undertaken in the course of research, purchase of resources, or fees paid to an assistant to undertake research on your behalf.
- recording projects fund studio time for recording projects, fees for supporting artists and recording professionals, manufacturing physical media (maximum of 1,000 copies), and initial setup fees for digital distribution, marketing and publicity
This program also supports:
- childcare and other dependant care fees enabling individuals to take part in the project (this does not include regular, ongoing expenses)
- expenses related to making the project accessible to audience members and project participants (other than the applicant) who are Deaf or have a disability
- Note: Applicants to this program who identify as Deaf or as having a disability may apply for supplementary funds for their own accessibility expenses through Accessibility Fund: Project Support.
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