In News by Porter Anderson
The Access Copyright Foundation, based in Toronto, has issued its 2024 Professional Development grants to publishers, creative organizations, and creative workers.
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By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
There’s a bright spot, however, in the work of the Access Copyright Foundation. So much not the same thing are the two distant organizations that the foundation falls itself “an arm’s length foundation” in terms of its connection to Access Copyright. And today (August 26), we have news of a fresh round of grants the foundation is awarding CAN$60,000 (US$44,457) to 27 publishers, creative organizations, and creative workers for 2024.
This news follows our coverage of Hawthornden Foundation grants released through the United States’ Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (US$350,000) and through the States’ National Book Foundation (also $350,000).
Access Copyright Foundation grants are awarded through a peer-review process administered by SK Arts on behalf of the foundation. Jurors for the 2024 Professional Development Grant program were Sally Ito, a writer and translator; Phoebe Tsang, a writer and violinist; and Shoshanna Wingate, an author.
Paul Seesequasis
The foundation’s chairman, Paul Seesequasis is quoted, saying, “Skills development and growth is so important to ensure that Canada’s creative community can grow and thrive.
“I’m pleased to see the foundation make another important investment in professional development.”
Since its inception, the foundation has awarded more than 300 of its Professional Development grants totaling approximately CAN$600,000 (US$444,214) reinvested in Canadian creative workers, publishers, and organizations that serve them as well as supporting published Canadian works.
The foundation has a site here.
More from Publishing Perspectives on Canada is here, our coverage of the work of Access Copyright is here.
Porter Anderson has been named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair’s International Excellence Awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London’s The Bookseller. Anderson was for more than a decade a senior producer and anchor with CNN.com, CNN International, and CNN USA. As an arts critic (Fellow, National Critics Institute), he was with The Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Tampa Tribune, now the Tampa Bay Times. He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for authors, which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman.
Tags: Access Copyright, Access Copyright Foundation, Canada, Grant Programs Related to Publishing
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