Book Publishing Production Grant - Book Publishers’ Stream

• The following additions were made under Eligible Projects and Expenses in the Guidelines:
  • Author and illustrator advances.
  • Textbooks and teaching guides.
• The following additions were made under Ineligible Projects and Expenses in the Guidelines:
  • Titles submitted by a political organization or party.
  • Titles submitted by religious organizations.
  • Titles that discriminate based on culture, gender, sexual orientation, race, language, ethnic origin, economic status, religion, political, or other conscientiously held beliefs.
  • Titles that are life coaching tools.
  • Author and illustrator royalties.
• While Directories or agenda with less than 36 pages of original editorial content remains an ineligible expense, it was clarified that:
  • Catalogues, periodicals and magazines, calendars, maps or books of maps, loose-leaf updates, colouring books, sticker books or other activity books, sheet music, games in the form of a book, and other similar products. Discussion questions, exercises, and glossaries provided in the appendices of a book does not make title an activity book. For the purpose of these programs, textbooks, teaching guides, and activity books are differentiated by the following:
  • Textbooks
    • Content is tied to a provincially-approved primary, secondary, or post-secondary curriculum.
    • Content is academic and instructional in nature.
    • Content is peer-reviewed.
  • Teaching guides
    • Target audience is educators, not students or children.
    • While colouring assignments may be included for educators’ classroom use, the teaching guide itself is not coloured in.
    • Content is reviewed by licensed educations and/or curriculum reviewers.
  • Activity books and colouring books
    • Content is not tied to a certain curriculum.
    • Activities, stickers, and/or colouring is completed directly in the book.
• Eligible applications will be assessed following the program deadline by an internal assessment process against the criteria as defined here.
• Projects tied in ranking will receive an equal percentage of funding.
• Projects will be funded up to a maximum of 50% of the approved project budget.
• This program has been moved from continuous intake to a deadline intake due to quick exhaustion of funds in the last two fiscal years.
• Please note that the General Guidelines have been updated for 2025-26.
• Updates to funding acknowledgement requirements here.

• 80% of your grant is paid when the application is approved. The remaining 20% of your grant is paid after the project is complete and your final report has been approved.
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