Call for Submissions: DIY Games Room at Canzine (Toronto, ON)
Call for Submissions: 2013 Waygooze Anthology (Grimsby, ON)
Call for Submissions: The Hundred Dollar Film Festival (Calgary, AB)
Call for Crafters: Heart and Pocket Revue (Sackville, NB)
Call for Zines: Fight Boredom Distro (Montreal, QC)
Call for Applications: Queer Press Grant (Prism Comics)
Contest: Poetry Chapbook Contest (Concrete Wolf)
Call for Submissions: DIY Games Room at Canzine (Toronto, ON)
Broken Pencil magazine and their DIY tech columnist skot deeming (aka mrghosty) are planning something special at this year’s Canzine. Toronto has a rich creative community of DIY game makers working with various formats. We want to show them off at Canzine Toronto 2012.
We’re looking for a number of people who have made DIY games to come down to the games room and demo them, allowing Canzine attendees to experience DIY game culture first hand.
If you’re a board game, card game or a digital game maker, we want to bring you in, share your work and come play with us on October 21st!
Send all inquires and registration info to [email protected]. Please include your name, the title of your game and a brief description. All those selected to demo games at Canzine will get free admission and the latest issue of Broken Pencil magazine.
Call for Submissions: 2013 Waygooze Anthology (Grimsby, ON)
The Grimsby Public Art Gallery is excited to announce an open call for submission of print works for the special 35th Anniversary 2013 Wayzgoose Anthology Vol II.
The Grimsby Wayzgoose is a one-day festival held annually on the last Saturday of April to celebrate the book arts. Private press printers, printmakers in all media, book binders, papermakers and related artists gather at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery to celebrate the art of the hand-made book.
To celebrate Wayzgoose’s 35th anniversary, the gallery is publishing a special two-volume anthology in an edition of 135 that will showcase and celebrate print media and the books arts across Canada and internationally.
We are accepting submissions for the second volume of the Wayzgoose Anthology 2013 from printmakers, private presses, and other print media artists for inclusion in the anthology. The work may be a collaboration or individual work.Each year the gallery also publishes an anthology of signatures submitted by participants of Wayzgoose.
A completed entry form, sample of work and $10 non-refundable entry fee should be received by the gallery no later than 5pm on November 16 2012. The theme for submitted works is the artists’ sense of place in the world, which will provide the anthology with a panoramic perspective on the world and people around us. Your work must measure 8 ½ x 5 ½ inches and accommodate binding in size and folding. A jury of local arts professionals will make a selection from the submitted works for inclusion in the 2013 Wayzgoose Anthology Vol II. Get your entry form here.
Artists will be notified no later than 14 December 2012 whether or not their work has been selected.
Call for Submissions: The Hundred Dollar Film Festival (Calgary, AB)
The 21st Annual Hundred Dollar Film Festival is open for submissions! Films must be 1) Short (under 22 min)
2) Finished on film (Super 8 or 16mm) 3) Released after Dec 1, 2010. Deadline: December 1, 2012.
The festival runs March 7–9, 2013. Download entry form here.
Call for Crafters: Heart and Pocket Revue (Sackville, NB)
Call for Crafters for the Heart & Pocket Revue
The Heart & Pocket Revue (October 26 & 27 in Sackville, NB) is an independent and alternative market held in conjunction with A Handmade Assembly, organized by Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre with the participation of the Owens Art Gallery. A Handmade Assembly invites artists, curators and others from the region and away to lead discussions, facilitate workshops, initiate projects, open exhibitions, and share in a common thread, the handmade. We are looking for independent crafters, printmakers, zine-makers, bakers, and so on, to show and sell their goods at the Heart & Pocket Revue.
If you are interested in applying, please send a brief description of your work and 3-5 images of what you do to [email protected] before 5pm on Friday September 28th. All submissions will be reviewed by a selections committee. The table fee is $15 per day or $20 for both Friday and Saturday.
To see images from last year’s Heart & Pocket Revue, see the Assembly website.
Call for Zines: Fight Boredom Distro (Montreal, QC)
From owner Amber Dearest:
I’m on a distro-stocking frenzy at the moment and I want YOUR zines at Fight Boredom Distro. As you may know, I’m visiting the UK for six weeks in the fall and winter (itinerary-in-progress here), and part of my trip involves tabling at some zinefests (like the Leeds Zine Fair and Queer Zine Fest London, among others). I’ll have a backpack overstuffed with zines, and I wanna bring a whole lot more with me.
Work by queers, anarchists, feminists are a bonus (and remember: my feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit). I like diary comics and thoughtful accounts of things like small towns, community-building, livin’ on the cheap. I’d also like to stock more zines on sex work, sobriety, and general hopeful tales of creating yr dream life. Also, more zines from Canada and Québec please! Send zines to Amber Dearest / 344 rue St-Ferdinand / Montréal, Québec / H4C 2S8 Canada.
Call for Applications: Queer Press Grant (Prism Comics)
Every year, Prism awards the Prism Comics Queer Press Grant to assist in the publication and promotion of LGBT comics. The grant is funded by donors who are either creators who want to help others just starting out, or fans who want to see more LGBT creators get published.
The submissions are judged for a variety of elements. First and foremost is the quality of the work itself; the level of the illustration and writing, the use of cartooning techniques such as panels, lettering, and page layout, and the thematic depth and ability to develop character and plot, for example, all play significantly in the decision.
Also under consideration, however, are financial need, the thoroughness of the business plan, and the presentation of the grant proposal. A well-written proposal with no grammatical or spelling errors, for example, can provide the crucial few points to break an artistic stalemate.
The work can be in black and white or in color, and in comic strip, comic book, or webcomic format. It must simply be what we would define as “comics.” Deadline: October 1, 2012.
Contest: Poetry Chapbook Contest (Concrete Wolf, Kingston, WA)
Deadline: November 30, 2012. Prize: 100 copies of a perfectly-bound chapbook. Reading Fee: $20, checks payable to Concrete Wolf. Final Judge: Kelli Russell Agodon
Submission Guidelines: We prefer chapbooks that have a theme, either obvious (i.e. chapbook about a divorce) or understated (i.e. all the poems mention the color blue). We like a collection that feels more like a whole than a sampling of work. We have no preference as to formal or free verse.
16 to 26 pages of poetry, plus a table of contents and acknowledgments (if applicable). Please number all your pages. Include 2 cover sheets, one with title, author information (including email and
phone), and one just with the title. Reading Fee: $20, checks payable to Concrete Wolf.
Winner will be announced in February 2013 and published Fall 2013.