Book Publishing Support: Author Promotion Tours
Deadline
15 December
Program Description
The Canada Council for the Arts provides support to book publishers participating in the Book Publishing Support program for a portion of the costs of author promotion tours. The tours must give greater public and media exposure to the publishers’ current publication programs.
Eligibility
Assistance is available for tours by Canadian authors, illustrators or translators of titles that are eligible under the Canada Council for the Arts Book Publishing Support program. Assistance is not available for tours by writers who own, or are employed by the publishing house that is applying.
Please consult the Book Publishing Support application guidelines (either the Emerging Publisher Grants or Block Grants component) to determine title eligibility.
Eligible promotional activities include launches, book signings, interviews with the media and public readings. Note that publishers cannot receive support for the same costs that are funded through the Canada Council’s Literary Readings, Grants for Literary Arts Promotion program or promotional assistance for translated titles, through the Translation Grants program or through a national association that is receiving public readings support from Council.
Tours must be carried out within 12 months of the title’s publication. The tour must include at least two promotional activities in each city on the tour, and authors must travel at least 100 kilometers from their normal place of residence.
Funding is intended for tours within Canada only.
Grant Amount
Publishers can claim costs only up to the eligible maximum below, even if tour costs are higher. The maximum also applies to a tour by co-authors of a single title.
The eligible costs are one of the following (not a combination of both):
- living expenses (meals and accommodation) to a maximum of $125 a day for a maximum of 12 days for each eligible title
OR
- direct travel expenses of touring authors, illustrators or translators, to a maximum of $1,500 for each eligible title.
A maximum of $1,500 is allowed for each author each year (or for each title each year in the case of co-authored titles). The maximum amount available to one book publisher for a single year is $20,000.
Applicants may not receive the full amount they request.
If a publisher has not used all the funds awarded in the previous year, that amount will be deducted from the current year’s assessment of the Author Promotion Tours request..
Application Guidelines, Request Form and Report Form
Author Promotion Tours 2010 Guidelines (pdf Acrobat)
Author Promotion Tours 2010 - Request Form (pdf, 26KB)
This form can only be printed and cannot be filled out on-line.
Author Promotion Tours 2009 - Report (Word)
Further Information
Rose Ouimet or Marcel Hull, Program Officers
Writing and Publishing Section
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 4571
TTY: 1-866-585-5559
Fax: 613-566-4410
August 2009