DECEMBER 2019 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
ORGANISATION | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
Adelaide Writers’ Week | $15,000 | Curated panel sessions |
Association for the Study of Australian Literature | $45,000 over three years | Public Events Program 2020-22 including writers lectures, panels and conferences |
AustLit and The University of Queensland | $15,000 | Teaching and Learning with Blackwords – professional development for teachers in WA |
Australian Association for the Teaching of English | $8,000 | AATE Conference 2020 |
Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation | $52,800 over two years | Australian Children’s Laureate Stipend |
Australian Library and Information Association | $60,000 over two years | Australian Reading Hour |
Australian Literacy Educators’ Association | $8,000 | Literacies of our Learners Conference: Understanding, Responding, Connecting |
Australian Poetry | $19,700 | Australian Poets Festival 2020 |
Australian Publishers Association | $30,000 | Residential Editorial Program for Editors |
Better Reading | $8,000 | Better Reading on Writing – Diversity in Children’s Writing Podcast |
Byron Writers’ Festival | $5,000 | Curated panel sessions |
Fremantle Press | $5,750 | Training authors in media promotion and showcasing to festival directors |
Institute of Modern Art (QLD) | $15,000 | Creolization: supporting new work by Australian artists |
Kill Your Darlings | $12,240 | KYD/Varuna Copyright Agency Fellowship 2020 |
MPavilion | $10,000 | MPavilion Emerging Indigenous Writer In-Residence Program |
Newcastle Writers’ Festival | $5,000 | Curated panel sessions |
PEN Melbourne Centre of International PEN | $6,000 | FreeSpeak Project: promoting literature, defending freedom of expression |
Perth Festival Literature & Ideas Weekend | $10,000 | Curated panel sessions |
Poetry in Action | $22,727 | Develop a new school’s program Riots and Revolutions |
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art | $15,300 | 2020 Open Studio Program – supporting Australian mid-career artists |
Sydney Theatre Company | $60,000 over three years | New writing and mentorships |
Sydney Writers’ Festival | $15,000 | Curated panel sessions |
The Literature Centre | $10,000 | Talented Young Writers Program (Years 6-12) in Albany, Bunbury, Busselton, Geraldton, WA |
The Sydney Morning Herald | $30,000 over three years | Best Young Australian Novelist Award 2020-22 |
University of Queensland Press | $10,000 | First Nations Story Anthology edited by Ellen van Neervan |
Urban Theatre Projects | $8,000 | Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Sarah Ayoub and Omar Sakr to create novellas rewriting the dominant narratives around the lives of second-generation Lebanese-Australian citizens |
Western Sydney University | $25,000 | Two writers in residence |
MAY 2019 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
ORGANISATION | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
ACT Writers Centre | $11,992 | ACT Writer-in-Residence program |
Artspace Visual Arts Centre Ltd | $8,250 | BOOKMACHINE powered by Artspace, Sydney |
Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) | $10,500 | 2019 National Conference |
Avant Gaga | $10,000 | The Poetry Night at Sappho |
Bad Producer Productions | $14,000 | The Garret (podcast): Develop teaching resources for works by diverse writers on Reading Australia |
Biennale of Sydney | $26,655 | NIRIN: Reader, a commissioned volume of texts for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney |
Big Issue in Australia Limited | $20,000 | The Big Issue Fiction Edition |
Centre for Stories Limited | $11,475 | Inclusion Matters – creative and professional development program for emerging writers |
Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria | $8,400 | Essays to be published in Destiny Deacon book with exhibition |
Griffith Review | $30,000 | Griffith Review Reportage Pilot Program |
Library Board of Queensland | $80,033 over three years |
black&write! Editor training program |
Melbourne Press Club Incorporated | $25,000 | Social Justice Journalism Fellowships 2019 |
New England Writers’ Centre | $3,714 | Varuna/New England Writers’ Centre Fellowship |
NewSouth Publishing/UNSW Press Ltd | $10,000 | Reading Like an Australian Writer (edited by Belinda Castles) |
Perpetual Limited | $37,500 | 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award |
Red Room Poetry | $18,000 | Poetic Moments Journeys – Australian Poems on Trains, Ferries, Buses, Trams |
Red Stitch Actors Theatre | $45,000 over three years |
INK New Writing Program 2020-22 |
Spineless Wonders | $5,000 | Microflix Writers Award and Symposium |
Sydney Living Museums | $10,000 | Cutter & Coota – a play for young people by Bruce Pascoe |
Sydney Review of Books – Writing and Society Research Centre | $49,500 over three years |
Emerging Critics Fellowships 2020-22 |
The Australian Historical Association | $8,000 | Travel and Writing Bursaries |
University of Notre Dame Australia | $30,000 | Residency for novelist Charlotte Wood |
University of Queensland Press | $12,000 | Indigenous poetry anthology edited by Alison Whittaker |
Us Mob Writing | $10,000 | Poetry in language – skills development workshop |
UWA Publishing | $56,100 over three years |
The Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2020-22 |