Attention Writers of Northern Ontario

If you have a work in progress, read on...
Announcing the Writers' Works in Progress Northern Competition !$!

The Ontario Arts Council Writers' Works in Progress grant (usually $12,000) is the Literature Office's large subsistence grant to professional writers engaged in a
book-length literary project.

Over the years, the WIP program has supported many established and emerging Ontario writers, and has been the financial foundation for many a published book.

While the program does its job quite well, it has not always been able to
attract its fair share of applications from Ontario's northern regions.

In an attempt to address this regional imbalance, the Literature Office has
secured an amount of money separate from the regular Works in Progress
budget to run a one-year pilot program involving one extra Works in Progress
deadline restricted to writers who live and work in Ontario's northern
regions.

The deadline for this Northern Competition is January 25, 2010, and grant
decisions will be made, and cheques awarded before the end of March 2010.

Full details about the Northern Competition, including application forms,
guidelines, and the OAC's defined northern regions -- Northeast Ontario,
Northwest Ontario and the Far North -- can be found at the following URL on
the OAC website:

http://www.arts.on.ca/Page3612.aspx

Please spread the word on this dedicated deadline to everyone you know
living and working in Ontario's North.

Thank you, and stay warm.

John Degen Literature Officer Responsable de la littérature
Ontario Arts Council Conseil des arts de l'Ontario
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