Magabala to offer two $10k AIC Creative Grants

Magabala Books will offer two $10,000 creative grants for First Nations storytellers, writers, illustrators and artists, in partnership with Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC).

The publisher said the grants ‘are intended to provide valuable time for storytellers, writers, illustrators and artists to work on a current manuscript or illustration portfolio’, and so it is seeking entries from ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytellers and writers working in any genre, this could include junior, young adult and adult fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir, children’s picture book and graphic novels’.

Entrants must have a project in progress (either an unpublished manuscript or an illustration portfolio), and manuscripts could be ‘in English, Aboriginal English, an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander language, or a combination of these, including a bilingual’.

In 2022, successful grant applicants were Casey Mulder for a ‘coming of age memoir of teaching in the Kimberley’ and Jenny Fraser for ‘a story about living on the frontier in times of massacres’.

Entries are currently open through the Magabala Books website, where more details are also available, with applications closing on 30 October.

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