Literary Organizations Projects

There are 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.

* Eligible books are works of literary, artistic, or cultural importance in the genres of fiction; poetry; drama; literary and arts criticism; autobiography, biography, memoir and essays; comics and graphic novels; works for children and young adults; and creative and literary works of history, politics, social issues, science, travel, etc.

 **A literary magazine is a magazine that publishes original literary works, or works of criticism or journalism about an arts discipline funded by OAC, in a print or electronic format as its primary activity (representing at least 50% of the organization’s expenses). The contributors must be predominantly Canadian and contributions must be primarily published in English.

For further information on program-specific definitions, see the Full Grant Text RFP link.

This program funds:

• Artists’ fees, production costs, marketing, promotion, audience development and administration costs of literary festivals and event series
• Presenter, facilitator, and consultant fees, production costs, marketing, promotion, audience development and administration costs of sector development initiatives
• Editorial, production, circulation, marketing and promotion costs of publishing eligible books or magazines in English, and sales, distribution, and administrative costs if directly related to an eligible publication
• Purchase of small-scale equipment, software, electronics and similar materials required to carry out the project
• Child care and other dependant care fees (this does not include regular, ongoing expenses)
• Expenses related to making the project accessible to audiences 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 (https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/accessibility-fund-project-support).

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