Your application
All applicants must provide a clear outline of their intended project.
Once your application has been submitted, no changes can be made, regardless of whether it is submitted before the round closes.
Your application must include:
- A project description
- Some brief biographical information
- How the intended activities will contribute to your career development
- Dates of the proposed activity
- Biographical information on mentors (where relevant)
- Detailed information on your itinerary and proposed meetings
- An itemised budget of how the grant will be spent
Who can apply
Individuals working in trade and educational book publishing companies, literary journals, and literary agencies in Australia with a minimum of five years’ experience working in the industry may apply. This includes:
- Commissioning Editor
- Editor
- Freelance staff who work regularly with trade or educational book publishers
- In-house Digital Media Manager/Coordinator
- In-house Publicity Manager/Coordinator
- Marketing Manager/Coordinator
- Publisher
- Publishing Assistant/Coordinator, etc
- Sales professionals
Who can’t apply
- Academic publishers and academics
- Applicants seeking production or printing costs
- Freelancers who predominantly work in self-publishing
- Illustrators
- Individuals working in trade magazine publishing, including multi-arts, film, food, lifestyle, health, fashion, self-help/how-to
- Publishing professionals with under five years’ experience working for a professional publishing company
- Research students
- Self-publishers
- Teachers
- Visual artists
- Writers seeking funding to write, edit, design, publish or market their own work through a self-publishing company
Support Material
You must submit the following support material with your application as a PDF via the online system:
- A letter of support from:
- your employer (if you are applying from an Australian publishing house or literary agency)
- one Australian publisher you have been freelancing with for five years (if you are applying as a freelancer)
- One page CV outlining your experience in publishing roles or as a literary agent
- Draft program of intended activities including:
- draft itinerary; or
- confirmation of your mentorship activities
- If applying for a leadership course, please include information on the proposed course along with a confirmed letter of invitation or placement to attend the course.
Report
- On completion of their project, successful recipients will be required to write a report of up to 2,000 words
- If appropriate, the report may be shared with industry peers