NOVEMBER 2025 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
| ORGANISATION | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
| Abbotsford Convent Foundation | $10,000 | Abbotsford Convent Writers Residency Program |
| Agency Projects | $20,000 | UNTOLD Darwin and Beyond: First Nations storytelling, discussion and exchange |
| Art Gallery of South Australia | $25,000 | Artists’ commissions for the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art |
| Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) | $25,980 to be paid in 2026/27 |
ASAL Writers and Readers Program |
| Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) | $15,000 | 2026 AATE National Conference in Perth and Bursaries for teachers |
| Australian Book Review | $15,000 | Writers’ fees for Commentaries |
| Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) | $20,000 | A season of colour, with Zaachariaha Fielding: Inma Ungu (commission fee) |
| Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation | $30,000 | Stipend for the Australian Children’s Laureate 2026-27 |
| Australian School Library Association (ASLA) | $15,000 | ASLA Diversity in Australia & New Zealand Children’s Book Awards |
| Australian Society of Authors | $30,000 | Copyright Agency/ASA Developmental Leadership Program |
| Australian Young Adult Literature Alliance Ltd | $15,000 to be paid in 2026/27 |
National YA Literature Conference in 2027 – fees for writers to attend |
| Bankstown Poetry Slam | $24,000 | Real Talk by Bankstown Poetry Slam |
| Board of Queensland Museum | $24,524 | Terror and Triumph: responses to Queensland’s Native Mounted Police (artist fees) |
| Books+Publishing | $25,000 | Books+Publishing pre-publication review program |
| Children’s Book Council of Australia | $10,700 | Podcast – Promoting Literature, CBCA award winners and Literary discourse through young voices |
| Company B LTD (Belvoir St Theatre) | $15,900 | Belvoir’s 2026 Series: Commission for Grace Chapple |
| Eureka Street | $10,000 | Writers’ fees |
| Fremantle Press | $10,000 | ABC Big Day of Books 2026 |
| Giramondo Publishing Company Pty Ltd | $10,000 | HEAT Australian Writers’ Fees 2026 |
| Good Reading Magazine Pty Ltd | $10,000 | Writers’/reviewers’ fees of books for Younger Readers |
| Guardian Australia | $25,000 | Australian Book Reviews |
| Guildhouse | $17,000 | The Guildhouse Collections Project- 60 Year Archive (artist fees) |
| Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) | $13,500 | Sector development to create cultural competent editorial workforce |
| Island Magazine Inc | $14,200 | Island 2026: Increased writers’ fees |
| Macquarie University | $5,000 | Brian Johns Lecture 2026 |
| Mascara Literary Review | $16,200 | Writers Fees for Emerging First Nations and CaLD critics |
| Melbourne Press Club Incorporated | $25,000 | Social Justice Journalism Fellowships 2025-26 |
| Melbourne Theatre Company | $17,400 | Commissioning fee for Dylan Van Den Berg |
| Metro Arts | $11,000 | Artist Fees for Metro Arts Warehouse Residencies 2026 |
| Monash University Museum of Art | $15,000 | Pitcha Makin Fellas: Artist fees for major survey exhibition |
| Newcastle Writers Festival Incorporated | $24,150 | Story Hunter – Writers’ fees for regional NSW schools program |
| Nine Entertainment Co. Pty Ltd | $35,000 | SMH Best Young Australian Novelist and Age Book of the Year |
| Northern Rivers Performing Arts Incorporated (NORPA) | $17,500 | NORPA’s Playwright Commission for Devised Theatre Script: ‘Dinner Party at the end of the World’ with writing by Suzie Miller |
| Overland Magazine | $12,000 | Fees for Australian reviewers |
| Red Room Poetry | $25,000 | Poetry Month 2026 – Poet Commissions and performance fees |
| Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators | $20,280 | SCBWI Australian Picture Book Illustrator Awards |
| State Library of NSW | $12,000 | Writers’ fees for Fresh Takes New Writing Showcase |
| Story Ship Productions Pty Ltd | $10,236 | Writers’ fees for StorySALOON: Short Stories, Centre Stage |
| Sweatshop Literacy Movement | $21,000 | Speak Australian’: The Western Sydney Literary Initiative for Diverse Writers |
| University of Queensland | $25,000 | UQ Creative Writing Fellowship |
| University of Technology Sydney | $30,000 | Copyright Agency-UTS New Writer in Residence 2026 |
| WestWords | $29,996 | Writers in NSW Regional Schools |
| Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing Ideas | $10,000 | Elevating the Voices of Writers: Writers’ fees |
July 2025 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
| ORGANISATION | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
| Art Fairs Australia | $15,000 | Sydney Contemporary 2025 Public Programming; Talk Contemporary & Kid Contemporary |
| Australian Publishers Association | $25,000 | BookUp: Australian Book Industry Conference 2025 |
| Biennale of Sydney | $16,025 | Artists’ fees for Yindjibarndi artist Wendy Hubert participation in 25th Biennale of Sydney |
| Big Issue in Australia | $7,000 | The Big Issue Fiction Edition |
| Children’s Book Council Australia | $10,000 | Winner Prizes Shadow Judging Book of the Year Awards |
| Griffin Theatre Company | $28,200 | Griffin Award 2026 |
| Griffith University, Griffith Review | $25,650 | Griffith Review Contributing Editor Project |
| International PEN Melbourne Centre | $5,900 | Keeping Words Free: to write; to read – writers’ fees |
| International Pen Sydney Centre Inc. | $8,000 | PEN Free Voices – Speakers’ events |
| International Performing Writers Association trading as Word Travels | $15,000 | Listening Fire – First Nations led Performing Writers Program |
| Linden New Art | $21,500 | Artist fees for Maree Clarke: The Long Journey Home |
| Local & Independent News Association (LINA) | $10,000 | Writers’ fees to amplify emerging writers |
| Magabala Books (Aboriginal Corporation) | $20,000 | Magabala Books Daisy Utemorrah Award |
| Moogahlin Performing Arts Inc. | $15,000 | Writers’ commissioning fees for two First Nations playwrights to develop and present their work at the Yellamundie Festival – A National Gathering of First Peoples Storytellers |
| Passage Gallery | $24,880 | Artist commissioning fee and residency for Brook Andrew (Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal) for a site-responsive installation |
| Poetry in Action | $20,000 | Words of Wisdom: 20 years of Poetry in Action |
| Primary English Teaching Association Australia | $7,000 | Half day conference on using Australian literature in the classroom |
| Red Room Poetry | $20,000 | Poetry Month 2025 – Poet commissions and performance fees |
| RMIT University | $20,000 | Inaugural non/fictionLab Graphic Storyteller Fellowship |
| Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing JCU | $20,000 | Writers on the Reef Residency |
| State Library of Queensland | $27,500 | 2026 Queensland Literary Awards – David Unaipon and Judith Wright Calanthe Awards |
| Stella | $30,000 | Stella Prize 2026 – Longlist authors’ prize money and judges’ fees |
| The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) | $12,500 | Speaker Fees and supporting First Nations and Diverse Emerging Leaders at IPEd Conference |
| The Suburban Review | $10,025 | The Suburban Review: First Nations in Focus (writers commissioning fees) |
| Think & DO Tank Foundation Limited | $25,000 | Burgeoning Words – generating diverse cultures of writing and reading |
| University of Queensland Press (UQP) | $10,000 | New series of First Nations Classics 2026 |
| University of South Australia | $20,000 | Old ways for new stories: Contemporary Aboriginal Multi-Generational Storying |
| University of Tasmania | $22,500 | Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Fellowship |
| UNSW Press | $19,000 | UNSW Press Bragg Prizes for Best Australian Science Writing |
| Westerly Centre | $15,000 | Writers’ fees for Westerly Magazine – championing WA literature |
| WestWords | $25,733 | Writers in Western Sydney Schools |
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