Lit orgs, writers receive Create NSW funding
A number of literary organisations and writers are among the recipients of round one of Create NSW’s annual organisation, project and Creative Koori Projects arts funding program, which has allocated...
Create NSW makes changes to multi-year arts funding guidelines
The NSW state government has announced changes to its multi-year arts funding for small to medium independent arts organisations. Applicants for multi-year funding will no longer need to have received...
Gentill, Grills, Bennet Daylight awarded Create grants
Four writers and two visual artists have received Create grants, worth a total of $80,000, from the Copyright Agency. The grants were awarded to the following writers, alongside playwright Daniel...
Over 700 sign open letter urging arts ministers to reject MPA funding framework
More than 700 artists and arts workers have signed an open letter addressed to state arts ministers as they meet today in Adelaide to discuss revisions to the Major Performing...
OzCo launches funding initiatives for promoting Australian books overseas
The Australia Council has launched three new literature initiatives aimed at engaging with overseas readers and increasing international demand for Australian literature. The opportunities, aimed at authors, translators, publishers, literary...
Clarke, Dovey among Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship recipients
Writers Maxine Beneba Clarke and Ceridwen Dovey are among nine artists to be awarded 2019 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, each worth $160,000 over two years. Clarke is the author of...
Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients
Twenty-seven writers and literary organisations are among the recipients of the latest Australia Council grants round, which awarded $6.2 million to 201 projects. Grants in the literature category were worth...
Four authors to promote Oz crime fiction in US
Four Australian writers will travel to the US to promote Australian crime writing, after receiving a $25,000 career development grant last week. Sulari Gentill, Robert Gott, Jock Serong and Emma...
Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients
Twenty-five writers and literary organisations are among the recipients of the latest Australia Council grants round, which awarded $5.8 million to 192 projects. Grants in the literature category were worth...
City of Melbourne trials ‘quick response’ arts grants
The City of Melbourne is trialling a new program of ‘quick response’ arts grants, which aim to give artists more flexible access to funding. Under the trial scheme, creative practitioners...
‘Penguin Bloom’ adaptation receives Screen Australia funding
A feature film adaptation of Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive's nonfiction book Penguin Bloom (ABC Books) has received production funding from Screen Australia. Set on Sydney's Northern Beaches, Penguin...
Writers, literary festivals among OzCo funding recipients
Eighteen writers and literary festival organisations were among the recipients of the Australia Council’s latest grants round, which awarded $6.6 million to almost 200 projects, including career development, regional touring...
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $1.049m funding grants
Thirty-seven arts organisations have received a total of $1.049 million in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Literary organisations and projects that received funding in...
Book-to-screen projects receive Screen Australian funding
Two book-to-film adaptations feature among the projects receiving story development funding from Screen Australia. The projects, and their producers, are: A feature film adaptation of Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and...
Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients
Several literary projects and writers have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts Grants. The program will provide over $1.5 million in funding for...
Writers Victoria announces Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients
Writers Victoria has announced the third round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. Nine successful writers, illustrators and translators were selected from 112 applicants to receive a...
Creative Vic announces Creators Fund grant recipients
Creative Victoria has announced the second-round recipients of the Creators Fund program, who will share in $900,000 worth of funding. Among the 24 recipients are: Sarah Firth ($30,000) for a...
CLNZ announces recipients of 2018 Contestable Fund Grants
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has announced the recipients of this year’s round of the Contestable Fund Grants. The fund supports strategic projects that demonstrate New Zealand’s publishing growth and...
Minister admits NSW arts funding was redirected to Sydney Symphony Orchestra
NSW arts minister Don Harwin has admitted that some money from a Create NSW funding round was diverted to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO), meaning 11 arts organisations missed out...
Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients
Twenty-nine writers and literary organisations are among the recipients of the latest Australia Council grants round, which awarded $6.3 million to more than 200 projects. Grants in the literary category...