Your application
All applicants must provide a clear outline of their intended project.
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:
- Book Designer
- Commissioning Editor
- Editor
- 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 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