Results Announcement
Deadline Date:
March 25, 2025
Advisors:
Boudreau, Eden, Jackson's Point
Rathinapillai, Namitha, Toronto
Thomas, Christen, Toronto
Advisory panels are used to provide advice and help set priorities in many granting competitions at the Ontario Arts Council (OAC). Advisory panels do not make grant decisions. Officers make final grant recommendations to OAC’s CEO and board based on advisors’ comments, OAC priorities, the program budget and the number of applications to the program. In Years 2 and 3 of a multi-year cycle, requests are reviewed by the officer and not an advisory panel.
To safeguard the integrity of the peer assessment process, we do not allow anyone who has a direct conflict of interest with an application to serve on an assessment panel where that application is to be reviewed. Indirect conflicts of interest are managed by a standard OAC procedure.
Number of Applications:
17
Number of Grants Awarded:
17
Total Recommended:
$492,846
Recipients:
Multi-Year Operating - Year 2
Diaspora Dialogues Charitable Society, Toronto, $29,761
Eden Mills Writers' Festival, Eden Mills, $12,557
gritLIT: Hamilton's Readers & Writers Festival, Hamilton, $15,000
National Media Awards Foundation, Etobicoke, $8,054
Open Book Foundation, Stratford, $11,376
Ottawa International Writers Festival, Ottawa, $37,575
Storytelling Toronto, Toronto, $26,554
Telling Tales, Waterdown/Hamilton, $20,000
The Canadian Children's Book Centre, Scarborough, $65,278
The FOLD Foundation, Brampton, $45,063
The Word On The Street Toronto, Toronto, $31,678
Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA), Toronto, $98,920
Operating
Al Purdy A-Frame Association, Kingston, $18,000
Kingston WritersFest, Kingston, $11,595
Ottawa StoryTellers, Ottawa, $16,200
Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Toronto, $27,235
Wordstock Sudbury Literary Festival, Sudbury, $18,000