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Literature organisations, writers among latest Creative Aus grant recipients

Wednesday, 26 June 2024   Books+Publishing
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Many literature organisations and writers have been successful in the latest round of Creative Australia funding.

Among the recipients of Creative Australia’s current $16.4 million investment round decided over the last month are:

Arts Projects for Organisations

  • Think & DO Tank Foundation ($100,000)
  • The Katharine Susannah Prichard Foundation ($99,965)
  • Byron Writers Festival ($90,000)
  • Library Board of Queensland ($85,803)
  • Fremantle Press ($68,318)
  • Debris Magazine ($66,684)
  • Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation ($58,500)
  • Story Box Library ($56,239)
  • Mascara Publishing ($38,500)
  • UNSW Press ($30,000)
  • The Comic Art Workshop ($26,700)
  • Australian Poetry Limited ($25,280)
  • Wellington Treasure Trust ($20,720)
  • Kill Your Darlings ($20,000)

Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups

  • Clare Atkins ($50,000)
  • Romy Ash ($50,000)
  • Amanda Betts ($50,000)
  • André Dao ($50,000)
  • Lisa Fuller ($50,000)
  • Kris Kneen ($50,000)
  • Leah Jing McIntosh (for Liminal) ($50,000)
  • Inga Simpson ($50,000)
  • Bruce Mutard ($49,800)
  • Vuong Pham ($49,765)
  • Can Yalcinkaya ($49,708)
  • Melanie Joosten ($49,680)
  • Ronald Scott ($49,650)
  • Kgshak Akec ($48,510)
  • Hakea Hustler (for Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler) ($48,123)
  • Johanna Bell (for Drawing in the Margins) ($47,000)
  • Gregory Day ($45,000)
  • Michael Brennan (for Vagabond Press) ($44,360)
  • Paige Clark ($42,200)
  • Robert Lukins ($40,500)
  • Scott Mitchell ($38,637)
  • Jeanine Leane ($37,000)
  • Julie Janson ($30,000)
  • Gabrielle Wang ($30,000)
  • Sam Carmody ($27,645)
  • Natalia Figueroa Barroso ($25,880)
  • Jacinta Dietrich ($25,470)
  • Suneeta Peres da Costa ($25,000)
  • Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker ($25,000)
  • Nova Weetman ($25,000)
  • Isabella Trimboli ($24,601)
  • Jo Langdon ($23,532)
  • Emily Maguire ($23,350)
  • Claudia Chinyere Akole ($23,270)
  • Dan Hogan ($19,800)
  • Ella Mittas ($14,400)
  • Blake Nuto ($13,805)
  • Georgina Chadderton ($10,000)

Carbon Neutral Pilot

  • Story Factory ($7360)
  • Centre for Stories ($5700)
  • Island magazine ($5700).

In its list of ‘investment highlights’, Creative Australia singled out Story Box Library’s proposal, which was for ‘Auslan Story Time Series’; through its funded project, Story Box Library ‘will create 40 Auslan interpretations of children’s books, accessible for free via public libraries and classrooms across Australia’. Creative Australia also highlighted Art Monthly’s Indigenous Voices program, which aims ‘to increase representation of First Nations writers, editors and mentors’.

Books+Publishing also previously reported on the Katharine Susannah Prichard Foundation’s successful proposal for an inclusion program at the Perth-based Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre.

The full list of funding recipients is available on the Creative Australia website.

 

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