2020 Emergency Action Funding Successful Applicants
| NAME | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
| Abadee, Nicole | $5,000 | “Books, Books, Books” podcast featuring interviews with Australian writers |
| All That We Are | $5,000 | ArTELIER Youth: professional mentoring for aspiring writers and illustrators |
| Arnot, Tully | $2,500 | To support research, learning and development of new skills in building virtual reality artworks for an online visual arts exhibition |
| Artspace Visual Arts Centre | $6,000 | Jonathan Jones – a major research & community engagement visual arts project |
| Avant Gaga | $10,000 | The Poetry Night at Sappho – a monthly poetry event that presents a diverse selection of established and emerging poets |
| Awad, Amal | $5,000 | To write a novel, ‘The Things We See in the Light’ |
| Baker, Tiyan | $2,500 | To support the development and delivery of a new online collaborative visual arts project, ‘Panic Buy’ |
| Bates, Vanessa | $5,000 | To write an interlocking suite of ten theatrical monologues about different female characters, creating a play, ‘Girls On Film’ |
| Betzien, Angela | $5,000 | To write ‘Chalkface’, a new play |
| Blake, Tom | $2,500 | For a visual arts project, ‘cliche of the stone’ |
| Booked Out Speakers Agency | $5,000 | Reaching Out Online – bringing online writers’ and illustrators’ events to Australian schools |
| Brisbane Writers’ Festival | $5,000 | Room to Dream online writers’ festival |
| Bruniges, Tim | $5,000 | ‘Music between rooms’, a visual arts project featuring a new response to remote, live sound installation practice |
| Byron Writers’ Festival | $28,290 | Byron Writers’ Festival 2020 Online |
| Canberra Glassworks | $8,000 | Residency for visual artist Megan Cope |
| Canberra Writers’ Festival | $5,000 | Canberra Writers’ Festival 2020 Online |
| Centre for Stories | $4,800 | Journal – to create a series of online writing by emerging and established Australian writers |
| Children’s Book Council Australia NSW Branch | $10,000 | Kids, Book Creators with Curious Creatures at Taronga Zoo |
| Cosmos Magazine | $16,000 | New ways of seeing: Commissions for creative writers to engage with Australian science through a series of long-form features in Cosmos magazine |
| Croggon, Zoe | $2,500 | To support the creation and exhibition of a new visual arts project |
| Curious Works | $9,700 | Everything Is Fine – Writers’ Group Development – A collaborative theatre project developed by young, Western Sydney writers, sharing their perspectives and experiences with mental health through comedy and story-telling |
| Elborne, Dan | $2,500 | For a visual arts project exploring the culture of violence |
| Giggs, Rebecca | $5,000 | To develop a narrative non-fiction book, ‘Pet’ |
| Glastonbury, Keri | $2,500 | 81 Austerities (Revisited), a new poetry collection |
| Groom, Amala | $5,000 | Visual arts project, ‘be here now’ |
| Guardian Australia/Penguin Random House/individual writers | $75,000 | To commission Australian writers to respond to the challenges of 2020 in the series Fire, Flood and Plague, published in Guardian Australia from July onwards. These essays and more will be published by Penguin Random House on 1 December 2020 in the anthology, Fire, Flood and Plague edited by Sophie Cunningham. |
| Hannan, Victoria | $4,650 | Towards writing the second draft of novel, ‘Marshmellow’ |
| Herrick, Steven | $5,000 | A tour of schools and public libraries in regional NSW, regional Qld and Brisbane to publicise new book |
| Inside Story Publishing | $11,000 | Inside Story – special commissions for feature articles and high-quality analysis from Australian writers |
| Iwantja Arts | $11,000 | For Vincent Namatjira to create a new body of work |
| Janson, Julie | $5,000 | To write a new novel, ‘Wilga’, about the death of a river |
| John Fries Award | $10,000 | To create Artist Videos for the 2020 John Fries Award finalists |
| Kill Your Darlings | $4,000 | Digital Marketing Professional Development for staff |
| Koh, Julie | $5,000 | Research to support writing the second draft of novel, ‘Universal Protagonist’ |
| Lang, Steven | $5,000 | To write a novel, ‘The Coming of the Sheep’ |
| Le, Nam | $5,000 | To write a suite of long poems, each about a “place” in Melbourne |
| Leal, Suzanne | $5,000 | To write a novel, ‘The Wrath of Evelyn White’ |
| Llewellyn, Caro | $5,000 | Together – Remotely, a series of regular online forums featuring writers affected by COVID-19 |
| Lukins, Robert | $5,000 | Writing the first draft of a new novel, ‘The Ecstasy of Tess’ |
| Mackellar, Maggie | $5,000 | To write a novel, ‘Diary of a Shepherd’ |
| Maslen, Kylie | $5,000 | For the creative development of a new full-length work of narrative non-fiction, ‘It Gets Better’ |
| Melbourne Writers’ Festival | $25,000 | Melbourne Writers’ Festival 2020 Online |
| Mutton, Katy | $2,500 | For a visual arts project, ‘The Panopticon’ |
| Parry, Naomi | $5,000 | To write ‘Musquito and his world: exploring colonial lives’ |
| Pickrell, John | $5,000 | ‘Flames of Extinction’ – writing about the recent bushfires |
| Poetry In Action | $25,000 | Poetry In Action 2020 online program |
| Rackham, Melinda | $2,500 | For visual artist project, #remakemistresses |
| Riddle, Naomi | $6,000 | To publish new critical writing and commission visual artworks in the journal Running Dog |
| Sharpe, Wendy | $2,500 | A visual arts project, ‘Dreams in Dark Times – Pandemic Diary’ |
| Southerly Journal | $12,000 | Writing Through Fences – contributors’ fees for new writing by refugee writers |
| Spicer, Tracey | $5,000 | Wednesday Night Book Club – a series of interviews with Australian women and marginalised writers conducted by noted reviewers and writers |
| Stockdale, Jacqui | $2,500 | For a visual arts project, ‘Isolation Diorama’ |
| Sydney Writers’ Festival | $35,000 | Sydney Writers’ Festival 2020 Online |
| TasWriters | $5,000 | Residencies supporting Tasmanian writers to create new work |
| Taweel, Shireen | $5,000 | ‘Switching Codes’ a visual arts project that will unpack the Lebanese cultural practice of code-switching between Arabic, French and English via the medium of sculpture and sound |
| Theatre Works | $5,000 | She Writes – a new writing and performance program for emerging or mid-career female-identifying playwrights |
| Valentine, Alana | $5,000 | To write a new play, PILGRIM 21 |
| WestWords | $5,000 | Online programs to support writers from Western Sydney |
| Woodward, Tim | $2,500 | A visual arts project, ‘Food_Moves’ |
| Word Travels | $12,000 | Word Travels 2020 Program – to deliver online workshops, public forums, mentoring and poetry slam events from June to October as part of the international Australian Poetry Slam (APS) and Story-Fest |
| Writing WA | $4,800 | Love to Read Local – to enable Writing WA to pay ASA rates to WA authors to participate in virtual book club events |
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