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Emerging Storyteller Award

About the Emerging Storyteller Award
SC-CC wants to provide financial support to locally-determined mentorship programs so that mentorship opportunities between emerging and experienced storytellers can be supported across Canada each year.
2023 Application Information
For the 2023 award year, we will award $600 grants to three organizations/guilds/individuals from Ontario and Quebec (2023 SCCC conference region) for the emerging storytellers to receive mentoring from their organization and present their stories at the conference held in May, 2023. Conference admission for the selected tellers is also included in the grant.
Deadline for applications is February 1st, 2023.
Basic Requirements for choosing an Emerging Teller:
• have already begun telling stories to an audience
• have demonstrated considerable talent and potential for development
• have the beginning of a repertoire of stories
• preferably, but definitely not absolutely, be between the ages of 18 and 35
Please review the more detailed application information here.
Questions can be directed to:
emergingstoryteller@storytellers-conteurs.ca
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Please read before applying
We recommend working on your application in a Word document in the event that you are logged out of your account while working. Click here for a Word Document template with the application questions.
When your application has been successfully submitted through our online system, a notification will appear on your screen, and you will receive a confirmation email. If you have not received the email or seen the notification, your application did not go through. Please email admin@storytellers-conteurs.ca to confirm.