Australia Council announces $2m Re:imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives fund
The Australia Council has announced $2 million in funding has been allocated to the new Re:imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives fund. Offered in two streams—‘cultural and creative solutions’ and ‘industry collaborations'—the...
Australia Council announces Cherish Fund to support First Nations creatives
The Australia Council has announced a new fund of approximately $500,000 to ‘support and invest in First Nations arts and cultural groups experiencing disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic’. The...
Think+Do Tank Foundation, Scribble partner to offer Mirror Mentorship
Think+DO Tank Foundation, the Sydney community art charity that owns multilingual bookshop Lost in Books, will partner with Scribe’s Scribble imprint to run a mentorship with funding from the Australia...
Australia Council announces latest funding recipients
Publishers Giramondo, Puncher & Wattmann and Thames & Hudson Australia, and literary journal Kill Your Darlings are among the recipients of the Australia Council's most recent funding rounds, announced on...
OzCo announces four-year funding; 49 unsuccessful orgs to receive extensions
The Australia Council has announced 95 arts organisations will receive Four Year Funding for 2021–24. Forty-nine currently-funded organisations that were unsuccessful this round will have their funding extended for 12...
Australia Council February grants announced
Seventeen literary organisations and almost 40 writers and writing groups have received Australia Council grants as part of its $11.2m February grants round. The 17 literary organisations received a combined...
Budget: slightly less money to OzCo, NLA to lose staff
Previously announced efficiency dividends and funding cuts have left the Australia Council with a $1.5m reduction in grant and project funding next year, the 2016-17 Federal Budget reveals. While the...
Catalyst arts program replaces NPEA; $32m returned to the Australia Council
The federal government’s controversial National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA) has been scrapped, with $32m in funding returned to the Australia Council—just under a third of the $110m...
Myer reappointed Australia Council chair
The Australian government has announced that Rupert Myer has been reappointed chair of the Australia Council.The retailer and philanthropist was first appointed to the role in June 2012. Australia Council...
OzCo VIP Program guests announced for SWF 2015
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2015 Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May.The visiting international...
Keneally wins OzCo Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award
Thomas Keneally is the recipient of the 2015 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.The award, formerly known as the Writers’ Emeritus Award, recognises ‘the achievements of eminent literary...
Reduction in Australia Council funding will not come wholly from literature budget
The $2 million per year reduction in funding to the Australia Council announced by the Federal Government yesterday will not come wholly from the Council’s literature budget. An Australia Council...
Brooks awarded Australia Council literature fellowship
Poet, novelist and essayist David Brooks has been awarded an Australia Council Fellowship for literature.Brooks will use to the fellowship, worth $100,000 over two years, to ‘undertake research and development...
Wood, Weir appointed chairs of arts practice at Australia Council
Author Charlotte Wood and Random House rights manager Nerrilee Weir have been appointed to the ‘strategic roles’ of chairs of arts practice at the Australia Council.Wood has been appointed chair...
Six-year funding for organisations as part of new Australia Council grants model
The Australia Council has announced a new arts grants model.As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the new model is the result of a review of the program, including consultation with the...
Australia Council to adopt new grants model
The Australia Council is changing the way it awards grants.The changes will be implemented from January 2015. ‘The new grants model will support a more diverse range of artists, artistic...
Australia Council funds literature projects with Asia
The Australia Council has funded two new literature projects under the Creative Partnerships with Asia Program. The LITERARY COMMONS! project will bring together writers from Australia and India, including Alexis...
Australia Council awards grants to Dempster, Tooth and McCredie
The Australia Council has awarded Artistic Leadership grants to Melbourne Writers Festival director Lisa Dempster and South Australia Writers Centre director Sarah Tooth, and an Executive Leadership grant to New...
New OzCo grants for editors, publishers of mid-list authors
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced new grants for Australian editors and for Australian publishers of mid-list authors. The editorial professional development and cultural leadership grants will assist editors...
Moorhouse wins OzCo Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award
Novelist Frank Moorhouse is the recipient of the 2013 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The $50,000 award is presented annually by the Australia Council for the Arts...