Melbourne writers, literary organisations receive council arts grants

Several writers and literary organisations have received a share of more than $1m in funding from the City of Melbourne as part of its annual Arts Grants program.

The First Nations Australia Writers Network was awarded a one-off project grant for ‘a series of master classes for emerging and midlist Aboriginal writers’ as part of its Blak&Bright Victorian Indigenous Literature Festival, scheduled for 19-21 February 2016.

Other successful applicants in the literature category include Australian Poetry for its ‘Out Loud’ 2016 program; Cordite Press, to produce a themed issue and two poetry collections by local writers; Kiri Bear for a project called ‘Poetress’; Michael Fikaris for a project called ‘Green Screen’; Ronnie Scott for a project called ‘The Adversary’; Sharon Huebner for a project called ‘Nidjuuk, Niih, Kaatitjin – Look, Listen, Learn: Interpreting the silences of colonial archive’; and Sophie Cunningham for a project called ‘Boundaries’.

For more information about the grants, click here.

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