November 2020 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
| ORGANISATION | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
| Adelaide Writers’ Festival 2021 | $15,000 | Adelaide Writers’ Week, 27 February – 4 March 2021, writers’ panel sessions |
| Brisbane Writers’ Festival 2021 | $10,000 | Author/Editor Series, May 2021 plus online series, writers’ panel sessions |
| Byron Writers’ Festival 2021 | $7,500 | Online Schools Program 2021, 9 – 20 August 2021 |
| Canberra Writers’ Festival 2021 | $7,500 | Canberra Writers Festival 2021, 18 – 22 August 2021, writers’ panel sessions |
| Melbourne Writers’ Festival 2021 | $20,000 | Melbourne Writers Festival, 3 – 12 September 2021, writers’ panel sessions |
| Perth Festival 2021 | $15,000 | Literature & Ideas: Weekend in the City, 20 – 21 February 2021, writers’ panel sessions |
| Sydney Writers’ Festival 2021 | $25,000 | Our Favourites’ Favourites, 24 April – 2 May 2021, writers’ panel sessions |
| The Wheeler Centre | $15,000 | Speakers’ fees for Australian participants in Broadly Speaking digital series |
| Western Sydney University | $27,000 | Sydney Review of Books, expand the review coverage of Australian non-fiction |
July 2020 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
| ORGANISATION | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
| All That We Are* | $5,000 | ArTELIER Youth: professional mentoring for aspiring writers and illustrators |
| Australian Association for the Teaching of English / Australian Literacy Educator’s Association | $10,000 | AATE/ALEA 2021 National Conference Brisbane |
| Australian Book Review | $10,000 | ABR Arts – Theatre and visual arts reviews |
| Australian Poetry | $20,000 | Australian Poets Festival 2021 |
| Avant Gaga* | $10,000 | The Poetry Night at Sappho – a monthly poetry event that presents a diverse selection of established and emerging poets |
| Canberra Glassworks* | $8,000 | Residency for visual artist Megan Cope |
| Children’s Book Council Australia NSW Branch* | $10,000 | Kids, Book Creators with Curious Creatures at Taronga Zoo |
| Cosmos magazine* | $16,000 | New ways of seeing: Commissions for creative writers to engage with Australian science through a series of long-form features in Cosmos magazine |
| Curious Works* | $9,700 | Everything Is Fine – Writers’ Group Development – A collaborative theatre project developed by young, Western Sydney writers, sharing their perspectives and experiences with mental health through comedy and story-telling |
| Goolarri Media Enterprises | $15,000 | To continue teaching, mentoring and supporting emerging Indigenous performance writers |
| Griffin Theatre Company | $66,000 over three years | Griffin Award 2021- 2023 – A national playwriting prize celebrating the best in new Australian writing |
| Griffith Review | $20,000 | Emerging Longform Voices: A New Award for longform writing (non-fiction, fiction, creative non-fiction), from emerging writers |
| Guardian Australia | $20,000 | Weekly reviews of Australian books |
| Institute of Professional Editors | $5,000 | Editing on the Edges: 10th National Editors’ Conference |
| Island Magazine | $20,000 over two years | Contributors’ fees and the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize |
| Iwantja Arts* | $11,000 | For Vincent Namatjira to create a new body of work |
| Kill Your Darlings* | $4,000 | Digital Marketing Professional Development for staff |
| Malthouse Theatre | $20,000 | Playwriting Innovation Award – A new award to support innovation in playwriting |
| Melbourne Press Club | $15,000 | The 2020 Michael Gordon Social Justice Journalism Fellowships |
| National Art School, NAS Gallery | $10,000 | Multimedia presentation of John Olsen journals for major exhibition |
| National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) | $5,000 | Professional Practice Mentorship Program |
| Perpetual Limited | $37,500 | 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award – Prize money for shortlisted authors and towards judges’ fees |
| Poetry in Action | $23,476 | To create new theatre shows for young people, both live and digital |
| Red Room Poetry | $45,000 over three years | 3030 Poetic Pursuits – 30 poets:30 days of publication – commission 30 poets each year to write poems for publication and amplification with 1-2 poems being released daily as part of the national celebration of Poetry Month in August 2021/22/23 |
| Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators | $18,300 | Children’s Book Illustrator Awards |
| Southerly Journal* | $12,000 | Writing Through Fences – contributors’ fees for new writing by refugee writers |
| Sydney Review of Books | $75,000 over three years | Commission 20 writers each year to write substantial review essays on new works of Australian literature |
| The Ethics Centre | $6,000 | Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) Digital essay series – commissioning fees for writers |
| West Space | $10,000 | Offsite digital commissioning platform for artists |
| WestWords | $60,000 over three years | Western Sydney Emerging Writers’ Fellowships |
*Supported through the Copyright Agency’s Emergency Action Funding
MAY 2020 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
| ORGANISATION | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
| Australian Book Review | $20,000 | Commentary on cultural, political and social issues |
| Australian Historical Association | $9,000 | Early Career Researcher Scheme |
| Better Reading | $15,000 | Online month-long features and promotion of Australian emerging authors |
| Big Issue in Australia | $5,000 | The Big Issue Fiction Edition |
| Blackfella Films | $20,000 | Books That Made Us, Companion Volume to ABC TV series |
| Booked Out Agency | $15,000 | Celebrating Literature across Australia: Rural and Regional Author Visits |
| Co-Curious | $20,000 | NextGen – Creative Development & Capacity Building in theatre for people from diverse backgrounds |
| Cordite Publishing | $10,000 | Author Payments for Poetry Contributors and Book Authors |
| Griffith Review | $16,000 | Unsettling the Status Quo: Supporting new First Nations’ work |
| Inside Story Publishing | $25,000 | Inside Story Essays and Reportage |
| International Pen Sydney Centre | $30,000 over three years | PEN Free Voices – funding for speakers’ events |
| Kaldor Public Art Projects | $10,500 | do it (homework) – Connecting artists with schools |
| Meanjin | $60,000 over three years | Meanjin Papers |
| Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council | $10,000 | All the Animals – a children’s story book about donkeys and Anangu by storytellers and artists of Tjanpi Desert Weavers |
| Office of Other Spaces | $10,000 | The Moon Speaks – funding for Ceridwen Dovey to write text and for visual artists |
| Photo Australia | $10,000 | PHOTO Fellowship program for mid-career Australian artists |
| Queensland Theatre | $18,500 | Support for Robyn Archer to write “The Other Great Australian Songbook” |
| Spineless Wonders Publishing | $9,000 | Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award 2021 |
| State Library of Queensland | $15,000 | Queensland Literary Awards – David Unaipon Award 2020 |
| The Eleanor Dark Foundation | $10,000 | The Blue Mountains International Writers’ Residency Program for Australian writers |
| The Stella Prize | $75,000 over three years | The Stella Prize 2021-2023 |
| University of Queensland Press | $7,000 | Extraordinary Voices for Extraordinary Times Poems and Podcast |
| University of Tasmania | $60,000 over three years | The Hedberg Writers-in-Residence Program |
| Westerly Centre | $23,319 over three years | Westerly Magazine’s Writers’ Development and Fellowship Program 2020–22 |
| Word Travels | $49,000 over three years | Story-Week 2020, 2021, 2022 |