2023 Cultural Fund Projects

november 2023 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS

ORGANISATION AMOUNT PROJECT
AATE/ALEA National Conference $15,000 AATE/ALEA 2024 National Conference Adelaide
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) $11,150 Studio artists new work commissions
Adelaide Writers’ Week 2–7 March 2024 $15,000 Writers’ panel sessions
Agency Projects $15,000 UNTOLD: First Nations storytelling, discussion and exchange
Association for the Study of Australian Literature $20,000 ASAL Writers and Critics Program 2024
Australian Book Review $10,000 Political/cultural commentary and review essays in Australian Book Review
Australian Poetry $14,000 Australian Poetry Festival 2024
Australian Rural & Regional News $6,000 Writers’ fees for book reviews and author interviews connected to rural & regional Australia
Australian Society of Authors $24,000 Copyright Agency Developmental Mentorships for Writers and Illustrators
Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival, 14–17 March 2024 $10,000 Writers’ panel sessions
Brisbane Writers Festival 29 May–2 June 2024 $10,000 Writers’ panel sessions
Byron Writers Festival 9–11 August 2024 $10,000 Writers’ panel sessions
Canberra Writers’ Festival, 28 Aug–1 Sept 2024 $7,500 Writers’ panel sessions
Centre for Media History, Macquarie University $5,000 Brian Johns Lecture 2024
Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney $10,000 Artist fee for Consuelo Cavaniglia
English Teachers Association of New South Wales $5,500 ETA Conference 2024: Teaching Students To Write Like Writers
Express Media $17,000 Toolkits 2024 – ‘Connect’
Fremantle Press $18,000 Writers’ fees for ‘Stories from the Heart’, an anthology of Indigenous women’s memoir
Griffith University, Griffith Review $20,000 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Award 2024
Guardian Australia $21,000 Weekly reviews of Australian books
HEAT Magazine $10,000 HEAT writers’ fees in 2024
Island Magazine $15,000 Writers’ fees
Melbourne Writers Festival 6–12 May 2024 $15,000 Writers’ panel sessions
Nine Entertainment $35,000 SMH Best Young Australian Novelist and Age Book of the Year
NT Writers Festival, Darwin, 30 May–2 June 2024 $5,000 Writers’ panel sessions
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) $12,690 Artist fee for new woks commission from artist Jack Ball
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) $20,000 Artist fee for survey exhibition for Judy Watson
Red Room Poetry $22,000 Poetry Month Showcases 2024
State Library of NSW $5,000 Writers’ fees for ‘Going Places – Authors on Tour’
State Library of Queensland $27,500 2024 QLA David Unaipon Award and Judith Wright Calanthe Award
Sydney Writers’ Festival, 20–26 May 2024 $15,000 First Nations programming and writers’ panel sessions
The Walkley Foundation $14,000 Advancing Arts Journalism
University of Technology Sydney, Creative Writing $30,000 Writers’ fees for Copyright Agency-UTS New Writer in Residence 2024
WestWords $25,000 Writers’ fees for Writers in NSW Regional Schools program
Writing WA $12,000 Love to Read Local Week 2024
Writing WA – Perth Festival Writers Weekend, 23–25 Feb 2024 $15,000 Writers’ panel sessions

 

July 2023 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS

ORGANISATION AMOUNT PROJECT
Art Fairs Australia $15,000 Sydney Contemporary – Talk Contemporary, Indigenous and non–Indigenous artist speakers fees
Art Gallery of South Australia $20,000 Support for four First Nations artists in the 2024 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) $29,800 Support for the Australian Children’s Laureate’s stipend in 2024
Avant Gaga $10,000 The Poetry Night at Sappho – a monthly poetry event that presents a diverse selection of established and emerging poets
Big Issue in Australia $5,000 The Big Issue Fiction Edition
Charles Darwin University $10,000 Towards writers’ fees for Borderlands ‘The Voice’ issue
First Nations Australia Writers Network $10,000 National Industry Roundtable
Griffin Theatre Company $25,000 Griffin Award 2024 – a national playwriting prize celebrating the best in new Australian writing
Meanjin $20,000 Indigenising Meanjin – writers’ fees for First Nations writers (Elders and essayists)
Melbourne Press Club $15,000 The 2023 Michael Gordon Social Justice Journalism Fellowships
Poetry In Action $15,000 The Turing Text – to create new theatre shows for young people, both live and digital
Red Stitch Actors Theatre $10,000 INK New Writing Program 2024
Sydney Theatre Company $15,000 STC Watershed: Writers – a professional development and mentorship opportunity for four early and/or mid-career Australian playwrights
The Literature Centre $10,000 Writers’ fees for published authors/illustrators to present at the Celebrate Reading Conference 2023
The Stella Prize $25,000 The 2024 Stella Prize
The Sydney Morning Herald, Nine Entertainment $15,000 Best Young Australian Novelist Award 2024
University of Queensland Press $20,000 First Nations Classics 2024 – Eight First Nations back list titles and commissioning eight First Nations writers for new introductions, plus the First Nations series editor, Yasmin Smith and Larrakia artist Jenna Lee.
University of Queensland, Centre for Critical and Creative Writing $25,000 UQ Creative Writing Fellowship for an emerging/early career writer
University of Tasmania $20,000 The Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program
Writers SA $15,000 Deaf Writers Commissions
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