TORONTO: July 16, 2024 –Access Copyright Foundation is pleased to unveil the 35 creators and creative organizations who have been awarded Marian Hebb Research Grants for 2024.
Please join us in congratulating:
- Association of Canadian Publishers; Toronto, ON
- Matthew Behrens; Ottawa, ON
- Vince Beiser; Vancouver, BC
- Sheima Benembarek; Bromont, QC
- Marian Botsford Fraser; Vancouver, BC
- Alison Braid; London, UK
- Brick, A Literary Journal; Toronto, ON
- Alec Bruce; Halifax, NS
- Canzine Arts Festival; Toronto, ON
- CARFAC Saskatchewan; Regina, SK
- Michaela Cavanagh; Ottawa, ON
- Marc Edge; Ladysmith, BC
- Editors’ Association of Canada; Toronto, ON
- Fiona Foster; Toronto, ON
- Joyce Grant; Hamilton, ON
- Taras Grescoe; Outremont, QC
- David Huebert; Halifax, NS
- Alison Hughes; Edmonton, AB
- Richard Kemick; Calgary, AB
- Joelle Kidd; Toronto, ON
- James MacKinnon; Vancouver, BC
- Agnieszka Maksimowska; Toronto, ON
- Ken McGoogan; Guelph, ON
- Ontario Book Publishers Organization; Stratford, ON
- Vincenzo Pietropaolo; Toronto, ON
- Karen Pinchin; Dartmouth, NS
- RavenSpace Publishing; Vancouver, BC
- Candace Savage; Saskatoon, SK
- Nilofar Shidmehr; Burnaby, BC
- Wanda Taylor; Toronto, ON
- Melissa Than; Toronto, ON
- Ayelet Tsabari; Victoria, BC
- Visual Arts Nova Scotia; Halifax, NS
- Oren Weisfeld; Toronto, ON
- Karin Wells; Port Hope, ON
“I am pleased that the Foundation has been able to support an astonishing array of projects that will enrich our cultural life in Canada as well as internationally,” said Foundation chair Paul Seesequasis. “This is an investment that will repay itself many times over.”
The Foundation’s Marian Hebb Research Grant program is one of the few in Canada that provides grant funding to facilitate deep research, including travel, for publishable works of resonant and authentic fiction and non-fiction as well as to help build and
enhance programs that support Canada’s creative community.
“I am extremely grateful to the Foundation and SK Arts as a recipient of the Marian Hebb Research Grant which will fund my research for an upcoming illustrated non-fiction book,” said author Joyce Grant. “This grant will support the intensive research this book will require. Now I can delve into it, knowing I have a safety net.”
In total, $140,000 in grant funding was allocated by the Foundation.
Access Copyright Foundation grants are awarded through a peer review process
administered by SK Arts on behalf of the Foundation. Jurors for the 2024 Marian Hebb Research Grant program were Annahid Dashtgard, author (Bones of Belonging) and CEO of Anima Leadership, Jason McBride, a freelance writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Toronto Life, Maclean’s and The Walrus, and Rhea Tregebov, poet (Talking to Strangers), novelist and children’s author.
About Access Copyright Foundation’s Marian Hebb Research Grant program
Access Copyright Foundation Marian Hebb Research Grant program provides funding to support inquiry and exploration relevant to Canadian publishing, writing and visual arts, and toward the realization of a publishable work in progress.
The Grant is named in honour of Marian Hebb who, among her ongoing contributions to Canada’s writing and publishing communities, drafted Access Copyright’s first by-laws and served as legal counsel to Access Copyright’s Board of Directors from 1988 to 2015.
About Access Copyright Foundation
Access Copyright Foundation provides support to creators and organizations engaged in the development and dissemination of publishable Canadian works in the literary and visual arts. We are an arm’s length foundation of Access Copyright, the collective voice of creators and publishers in Canada.
To learn more about Access Copyright Foundation, please visit the Foundation’s
website.
For a look at how Access Copyright Foundation’s grants support Canada’s creative community, please visit the Foundation’s Spotlight page.
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For media inquiries:
Robert Gilbert, Communications Specialist, Access Copyright
rgilbert@accesscopyright.ca