SRB among Australia Council Re-imagine funding recipients
The Sydney Review of Books (SRB) is among 39 successful applicants for the Australia Council's Re-imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives fund. SRB receives $47,500 for ‘Works Cited’, ‘a weekly online literary...
Centre for Stories receives funding for $300K writing program
Perth's Centre for Stories has been awarded a $185,000 grant from the Ian Potter Foundation, which, combined with $83,708 from the Australia Council for the Arts and contributions from donors,...
Federal RISE Covid funding increased to $200 million
The federal government has announced it will increase the funding available through its Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) fund from $75 million to $200 million. For the most...
Wheeler Centre to receive federal Covid funding
The Wheeler Centre is among four arts organisations who will receive funding under the second batch of the federal government’s $35 million Covid-19 Arts Sustainability Fund, designed to assist significant...
SRB to increase nonfiction reviews; festivals, Wheeler Centre receive funding
The Copyright Agency has announced funding from its Cultural Fund to support writers via the Sydney Review of Books (SRB) and panels at seven major writers festivals and the Wheeler...
Australia Council, Create NSW, WA arts funding latest rounds announced
Writing NSW will receive $100,000 from the Australia Council to ‘assist writers to navigate the ongoing disruption caused by Covid-19 that will enable $200,000 in payments to around 300 writers’....
Centre for Stories receives funding for new journal
Perth's Centre for Stories has received funding for a new online journal and two-year project to support and develop writers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The Centre received $42,465...
Australia Council announces $2m Re:imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives fund
The Australia Council has announced $2 million in funding has been allocated to the new Re:imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives fund. Offered in two streams—‘cultural and creative solutions’ and ‘industry collaborations'—the...
Victorian literary orgs to receive Creative Vic funding
Creative Victoria has announced the 78 arts and cultural organisations that will share in $7.85 million in grants in stage two of its Strategic Investment Fund. The funding is ‘focused...
QPF receives funding for digital adaptation
The Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) is among 52 arts projects to receive funding under the Queensland Government’s Digital Adaptation stream of its Arts and Cultural Recovery Package. QPF receives $9,651...
New $10.2m Arts Recovery Fund for SA
South Australian premier Steven Marshall has announced a new $10.2 million funding package for the state’s arts and culture sector. The Arts Recovery Fund, which is focused on creating employment...
Creative Vic Sustaining Creative Workers grants announced
Creative Victoria has announced the first recipients of its Sustaining Creative Workers initiative, created as part of the Victorian Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Initially announced in April as...
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...
Australia Council announces Cherish Fund to support First Nations creatives
The Australia Council has announced a new fund of approximately $500,000 to ‘support and invest in First Nations arts and cultural groups experiencing disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic’. The...
Copyright Agency announces additional $125,000 emergency funding
The Copyright Agency has announced an additional $125,000 of Emergency Action Funding, to be drawn from the Agency’s Future Fund and allocated in part to unsuccessful applicants to the Agency’s...
Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne writers fests among latest recipients of Copyright Agency emergency funding
Among the latest successful recipients of the Copyright Agency’s Covid-19 Emergency Action Fund are the Brisbane and Canberra writers festivals, which have each received funding to move online, and Word...
Writing WA receives Copyright Agency emergency funding for virtual book clubs
Writing WA has launched a virtual event fund with support from the Copyright Agency’s emergency action fund. The virtual event fund will enable WA writers to be paid Australian Society...
Think+Do Tank Foundation, Scribble partner to offer Mirror Mentorship
Think+DO Tank Foundation, the Sydney community art charity that owns multilingual bookshop Lost in Books, will partner with Scribe’s Scribble imprint to run a mentorship with funding from the Australia...
Australia Council announces latest funding recipients
Publishers Giramondo, Puncher & Wattmann and Thames & Hudson Australia, and literary journal Kill Your Darlings are among the recipients of the Australia Council's most recent funding rounds, announced on...
Writers awarded OzCo international residencies for 2020–21
The Australia Council has announced eight writers as recipients of international development residencies as part of its latest grants round. Lisa Gorton, Robert Lukins, Fiona McGregor and Sandra Thibodeaux will...