Canada Council supplemental fund channels $550,000 to Canadian magazines

[NOTE: This posting has been updated.]

The much-anticipated special supplementary grants from the Canada Council have resulted in Canadian magazines receiving about $584,000 or about 1.7% of the new money available.

In the 2006 federal budget, the Canada Council for the Arts received a total of $50 million in additional one-time funding: $20 million for 2006-07 and $30 million for 2007-08. Of this, $33 million was to be allocated to all artistic disciplines over the two years. The one-time funding was to enhance the work of organizations which receive Canada Council operating funding. Other funds were directed to supporting individual artists and increasing public access to the arts.

Some titles were disappointed to either get much less than they applied for, or not to be successful at all. A total of 858 arts organizations (92% of the 937 that were eligible) applied and requests totaled $95.6 million – nearly three times what was available. Not every organization could receive funding, said the Council, and even most of those which were successful did not receive the total amount requested in their applications.

The magazines that received grants were:

Arc: Canada's National Poetry Magazine	10,000
BlackFlash	10,000
Border Crossings	25,000
Brick Magazine	10,600
Broken Pencil	18,000
C The Visual Arts Foundation	10,000
Canadian Art Foundation	165,000
Contemporary Verse Two	10,000
CV Ciel Variable	18,600
Descant Magazine	10,000
Event	10,000
Exile the Literary Quarterly	10,000
Fuse Magazine	10,000
Grain Magazine	10,000
Magazines Canada	86,000
Maisonneuve	10,000
Musicworks	12,500
Prefix Photo	10,700
Prism International	10,000
Queen's Quarterly	10,000
Quill and Quire	10,000
RicePaper	10,000
Spirale	21,700
The Fiddlehead	10,000
The Geist Foundation	30,000
The New Quarterly	10,000
This Magazine	11,100
Virages	15,600
	584,800

UPDATE: We are informed that several magazine titles should have been included* in this list:
24 Images (31,200)
Cahier de theatres jeu (32,800)
Canadian Electroacoustic Community (6,800)
Hors Champ (4,000)
Nouvelles "vues" sur le cinéma québécois (3,000)
Penguin Eggs (10,000)
Point of View magazine (10,000)
Prairie Fire Press Inc. (10,000)
The Devil's Artisan (8,000)

The total for individual magazines was $614,600

*It would be easier, of course, if the Canada Council would list magazines separately from book publishers.