Latest ArtsACT grant recipients announced

ArtsACT has announced the successful recipients of its Homefront funding round, which was developed to support individual artists in response to the impact of Covid-19 on the arts sector.

Funding of up to $10,000 per artist will be provided to the 66 successful applicants, chosen from more than 370 applications.

Writers were among the successful applicants, including:

• Larry Brandy ($8000), for traditional Aboriginal storytelling online
• Judith Crispin ($10,000), to complete the first draft of a new verse novel
• Mimi Fairall ($2500), for a memoir-style zine about being a young artist and the life events in between
• Irma Gold ($9555), to complete the second draft of a novel
• Sonja Kama ($9880), for ‘Capital mums: The untold stories of multicultural motherhood in Canberra’
• Antonia Losanno ($10,000), to write a new book, ‘The Good, The Bad and The Elderly’
• Marisa Martin ($10,000), for illustration of a new graphic novel
• Tim Napper ($8000), for completion of a debut novel, ‘Howling Metal’
• Jennifer Pinkerton ($8800), for research and writing for nonfiction book ‘Heartland’.

A number of literary projects have also been funded by ArtsACT in its latest Arts Activities funding round. Among the individuals and organisations to receive funding are:

• Nola Anderson ($10,000), to assist in publishing ‘Glass: The Life and Art of Klaus Moje’
• Demos Journal ($20,425), for production of journal issue #11 ‘Precarity’, and website redevelopment
• Cameron Muir ($14,368), for completion of a draft of nonfiction book ‘End of Punishment’
• Melinda Smith ($28,600), for research and drafting a poetry manuscript on memory loss ‘Coming Unmothered’
• Samuel Townsend ($11,000), for completion of essays for manuscript ‘From Sir, With Love’, a memoir of a queer teacher.

For more information, and to view the other successful grant applicants, see the ArtsACT website.

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