November 2024 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
| ORGANISATION | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
| AATE/ALEA National Conference | $25,000 | AATE/ALEA 2025 #Connect Conference Hobart |
| Adelaide Writers’ Week 28 Feb–6 March 2025 |
$15,000 | Writers’ panel sessions |
| Agency Projects | $15,716 | UNTOLD Darwin: First Nations storytelling, discussion and exchange |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales | $25,000 | Artists’ fees for a new Mulka Project artwork |
| Arts Project Australia | $16,500 | New artist commissions in 2025; building audience for contemporary Australian art created by three artists with an intellectual disability |
| Association for the Study of Australian Literature | $15,000 | ASAL Writers and Readers Program 2025 |
| Association for the Teaching of English (ACTATE) | $8,000 | Empowering Voices: Writers fees for First Nation Fiction in ACT Schools |
| Australian Book Review | $15,000 | Political/cultural/arts commentary and review essays in Australian Book Review |
| Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation | $29,800 | Creativity Without Barriers – The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation 2024–25 |
| Australian Poetry | $15,000 | Australian Poetry Events Program 2025 |
| Australian Publishers Association | $40,000 | Leadership Program for Educational Publishers |
| Australian Rural & Regional News | $6,000 | Writers’ fees for book reviews and author interviews connected to rural & regional Australia |
| Avant Gaga | $10,000 | The Poetry Night at Sappho |
| Belvoir St Theatre | $30,000 | Belvoir’s Commissioning Series 2025, Investing in Australian Stories |
| Books+Publishing | $25,000 | Reviews of pre-publication Australian originated titles |
| Brisbane Writers Festival 9–12 October 2025 |
$15,000 | Writers’ panel sessions |
| Canberra/Kamberri Writers’ Festival 23–26 October 2025 |
$15,000 | Writers’ panel sessions |
| Centre for Media History, Macquarie University | $5,000 | Brian Johns Lecture 2025 |
| Children’s Book Council of Australia – South Australia | $15,000 | Book An Adventure: Celebrating 80 Years of SA Children’s Books |
| Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation | $10,000 | DAAF Open Studios |
| Eleanor Dark Foundation trading as Varuna the National Writers’ House | $15,750 | Writers’ fees for Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship Program |
| English Teachers Association of New South Wales | $8,000 | Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors texts |
| Express Media | $20,000 | Toolkits 2025 |
| Giramondo Publishing | $10,000 | HEAT magazine writers’ fees in 2025 |
| Griffin Theatre Company | $26,000 | Griffin Award 2025 |
| Guardian Australia | $25,000 | Weekly reviews of Australian books |
| Inside Story Publishing | $18,000 | Writer’s fees |
| Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) | $6,750 | Two awards for editors: Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award and the IPEd Student Prize for promising new and emerging editors |
| Island Magazine | $10,000 | Writer’s fees |
| Kill Your Darlings | $15,000 | LGBTIQ+ Writing in Australia: A Critics Series. Writers’ fees for developing critics/reviews. |
| Literature Centre | $15,000 | Writers’ fees for biennial Celebrate Reading 2025 Conference |
| Littlescribe | $10,000 | Littlescribe Co-Author Collective: Stories by Young Voices. Writers’ fees for schools’ literacy building workshops. |
| Meanjin | $20,000 | Writers’ fees for essays by First Nations Elders |
| Melbourne Press Club | $20,000 | Michael Gordon Social Justice Journalism Fellowships 2024–25 |
| Nine Entertainment | $35,000 | SMH Best Young Australian Novelist and Age Book of the Year |
| NT Writers Festival – Darwin 29 May–1 June 2025 |
$15,000 | Writers’ panel sessions |
| Perpetual Limited | $36,250 | Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025 |
| Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators | $20,280 | SCBWI Australian Picture Book Illustrator Awards |
| Solid Lines | $15,000 | Celebrating First Nations storytelling practice through illustrated books; Artist/writers’ fees for First Nations illustrators |
| State Library of Queensland | $27,500 | 2025 Qld Literary Awards – David Unaipon Award and Judith Wright Calanthe Award |
| Story Ship Productions Pty Ltd | $10,000 | Story Saloon: Writers fees for Australian short stories event and podcast |
| Sydney Review of Books – Writing and Society Research Centre | $15,000 | Frank Moorhouse Reading Room; writers’ in residence fees |
| TarraWarra Museum of Art | $20,000 | 2025 TarraWarra Biennial: We are Eagles visual artist fees |
| University of Technology Sydney | $30,000 | Writers’ fees for UTS Copyright Agency New Writer in Residence 2025 |
| WestWords | $29,984 | Writers’ fees for Writers in NSW Regional Schools program |
| Wild North Arts | $14,000 | Commission fees for First Nations writers and artists and script development for Wild North Arts Comics – The BLAK POWER project |
| Writing WA Inc | $16,239 | Love to Read Local Week 2025 |
July 2024 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
| ORGANISATION | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
| Art Fairs Australia | $15,000 | Sydney Contemporary Public Programming; Talk Contemporary & Kid Contemporary |
| Australian Publishers Association | $25,000 | BookUp: Australian Book Industry Conference 2024 |
| Australian School Library Association | $10,000 | Prizes for Australian writers in the DANZ Book Awards |
| Big Issue in Australia | $5,000 | The Big Issue Fiction Edition |
| Bookchoice Trading as Better Reading | $10,000 | Debut author’s Podcast series |
| Cordite Publishing Inc. | $15,000 | Payments to Poetry Contributors and Book Authors |
| Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation | $10,000 | DAAF Open Studios |
| Gertrude Contemporary | $20,000 | Past is Present: Four Decades of Gertrude |
| Indigenous Art Code Ltd | $15,000 | Develop an ICIP declaration and protocol for IartC artist members |
| International Pen Sydney Centre Inc. | $10,000 | PEN Free Voices Talks: Fees for Australian speakers |
| Library Board of Queensland | $29,676 | black&write! Editor Training |
| OL Society (Overland Literary Magazine) | $12,000 | Writers’ fees for reviews published in Overland |
| Poetry in Action | $20,000 | Verses and Vibes: a play about poetry, music and self-expression |
| Science Journalists Association of Australia | $28,700 | Science Writer/Journalist in Residence at UQ Institute of Moleculular Biosciences |
| Stella Prize | $25,000 | The Stella Prize 2025 |
| Sydney Review of Books – Writing and Society Research Centre | $25,000 | CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships 2025-26 |
| TarraWarra Museum of Art | $13,500 | Interpreting the Collection: Fees for visual artists |
| The English Association Sydney Inc | $10,000 | Writers’ fees for ‘First Futures’ issue of Southerly Journal |
| The Suburban Review Incorporated | $10,000 | Writers’ fees for The Suburban Review |
| Think & DO Tank Foundation Limited | $26,000 | In Other Words Writers in Residence |
| University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle) | $10,000 | How schools evaluate and communicate impact of writer visits |
| University of Queensland Press | $20,000 | First Nations Classics 2025 |
| University of Tasmania | $20,000 | Hedberg Writer-in-Residence |
| UNSW Press | $19,000 | UNSW Press Bragg Prizes for Best Australian Science Writing |
| WestWords | $24,868 | Writers in Western Sydney Schools |
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