Creative Australia funds literature organisations and individuals
Creative Australia has announced the Four Year Investment for Organisations program for 2025–2028. Among the 159 organisations in Creative Australia’s multi-year investment, 14 literature organisations are listed. Creative Australia also announced its 2023 funding recipients under the categories Arts Projects for Organisations and Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups, which included 40 literary organisations and creators.
Four Year Investment for Organisations (2025–2028)
- The Red Room Company Ltd ($1,280,000)
- NT Writers’ Centre Inc ($1,200,000)
- Centre for Stories ($960,000)
- Griffith Review ($800,000)
- Australian Book Review Inc ($720,000)
- Cordite Publishing Inc ($720,000)
- Express Media Inc ($720,000)
- Island Magazine Incorporated ($707,960)
- Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival ($700,000)
- Emerging Writers’ Festival Inc ($600,000)
- Story Factory Incorporated ($600,000)
- Western Sydney University (Writing and Society Research Centre) ($600,000)
- Australian Poetry Limited ($520,000)
- Kill Your Darlings Pty Ltd ($480,000)
Arts Projects for Organisations
- Writing NSW (NSW Writers Centre Inc) ($100,000)
- Sweatshop Literacy Movement Incorporated ($99,840)
- Bankstown Poetry Slam (Click Ink Inc) ($99,000)
- Running Water Community Press ($97,280)
- Overland Magazine (O L Society Limited) ($94,500)
- Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival ($93,603)
- Puncher & Wattmann Pty Ltd ($72,638)
- Brisbane Writers Festival (UPLIT Association Inc) ($51,487)
- Playlab Theatre ($27,425)
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
- Jessie Cole ($50,000)
- Tom Doig ($50,000)
- Trent Jamieson ($50,000)
- John Kinsella ($50,000)
- Scott Pritchett ($50,000)
- Beau Windon (for Minty Weasels (Beau and Arty)) ($50,000)
- Michael Winkler ($50,000)
- Claire Zorn ($50,000)
- Claire Gaskin ($49,988)
- Laurel May ($49,976)
- Max Easton ($49,699)
- Caitlin Maling ($49,460)
- Melinda Smith (for Melinda Smith and Caren Florance) ($47,870)
- Shokoofeh Azar ($45,000)
- Kirli Saunders ($43,500)
- Eleanor Sweetapple ($42,485)
- Grace Heifetz (for Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship) ($42,269)
- Baudicao ($40,360)
- Alan Fyfe ($40,000)
- Robert Lukins ($39,500)
- Raeden Richardson ($39,348)
- Michael Brennan (for Vagabond Press) ($36,365)
- Janine Mikosza ($33,800)
- Daniel Gray-Barnett ($33,280)
- Angie Martin ($30,000)
- Christine Kix Mwaturura ($24,074)
- Monikka Eliah ($19,968)
- Sophie Quick ($15,330)
- Evelyn Araluen ($15,300)
- Anders Villani ($15,000)
- Kay Kerr ($11,900).
Creative Australia CEO Adrian Collette said: ‘From the cities and suburbs to regional and remote Australia, arts organisations make a vital contribution to Australian arts and culture. The strong competition for this investment highlights the immense talent and vision of our small to medium art sector.’
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