DC Reid Poets’ Grant | Writers’ Trust of Canada

The DC Reid Poets’ Grant is intended to be for those of modest means, working poets who earned less than $30,000 from all income sources in the previous tax year. Applicants will be required to affirm they meet this requirement in their application. Emerging writers are not eligible; poets must have published two or more books of poetry with a traditional publishing house to be considered.

An applicant must be:

• A professional writer engaged in the production of literary poems. Two books of poetry published is the minimum requirement.
• Of modest means, having earned less than $30,000 from all income sources in the previous tax year.
• A Canadian citizen or permanent resident, living in Canada.
• Actively working on a literary project of poetry.

Applicants should base their eligibility on publication with traditional publishers, ones with an independent editorial review process that provide advances/royalties and do not charge authors as clients. Writers’ Trust does not currently recognize self-published poetry on an equal footing. Our ruling is periodically reviewed. Writers that are exclusively self-published are ineligible for this program.