Arts Victoria announces latest arts development grants
Arts Victoria has announced its latest round of Arts Development grants. In all, 56 new projects received funding as part of the grants program, which supports Victoria’s independent professional artists...
Readings Foundation awards $151,319 in grants for 2013
The Readings Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2013 round of grants. The charitable organisation, which is funded by Readings Bookshop, aims to support projects ‘that specifically target literacy outcomes...
Growth in writers’ festivals ‘placing stress’ on Literature Board grants; successful applicants announced
The growth in the number of writers’ festivals around the country is ‘placing even more stress’ on the Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board’s promotion grants, said chair Sophie...
New $40,000 Australia Council grants for any art form
The Australia Council has announced new grants of up to $40,000 ‘to support a small number of two-way creative partnerships between artists working in Australia and Asia’. The grants will...
Literature Board publishing funding inadequate says Cunningham; successful applicants announced
The Australia Council’s Literature Board funding for publishing activities is insufficient, says recently appointed chair Sophie Cunningham. In announcing the successful applicants for promotion, publishing grants and residencies from the...
New grant from NZSA for mid-career writers
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) has established a new grant for mid-career writers. Applications are now open for the inaugural grant, which is worth NZ$6000 (A$4700) and designed...
In Brief
Dymocks Children's Charities launches seventh Book BankDymocks Children's Charities launched its seventh Book Bank at La Perouse Public School in South-Eastern Sydney this week. Each of the 47 students at...
First OzCo Book2 grants recipients announced
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced the first three writers to receive grants through its Book2 program. Nam Le, Anna Krien and Favel Parrett...
Australia Council announces new grants for second books
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced a new grants program ‘for writers who are embarking on their second book'. The program, Book2, will offer...
Victorian government arts funding announced
A total of $250,000 has been dedicated to literature projects in the Victorian Government's latest round of arts grants. This includes $50,000 to longstanding literary journal Overland; $30,000 to the...
Lit Board offers $40,000 to break new ground
The Literature Board of the Australia Council has announced a new one-off grant for established writers and picture book/graphic novel illustrators. The $40,000 ‘Breaking new ground' grant will support the...
OzCo Literature Board announces grants
The Literature Board of the Australia Council has released its latest round of funding. A total of $746,012 was awarded to 74 applicants, in four categories--‘presentation', ‘promotion', ‘skills and arts...
Ozco Literature Board grants: who got what
As reported in last week's WBN, the Australia Council's literature board has announced a total of $2.1 million worth of grants to writers around Australia and a further $980,000 to...
Temple and Duggan awarded Ozco fellowships
Writers Peter Temple (The Broken Shore, Text) and Laurie Duggan (The Passenger, UQP) have been named as the recipients of this year's Australia Council Fellowship awards--each worth $90,000--in the latest...