July 2026 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
| ORGANISATION | AMOUNT | PROJECT |
| ARR News Store Pty Ltd for Australian Rural & Regional News | $10,000 | Book reviews of Australian rural & regional authors |
| Art Fairs Australia | $15,000 | Sydney Contemporary Public Programming; Talk Contemporary & Kid Contemporary |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales | $14,000 | Artists’ fees for ‘Oceanic Belonging’ commissioned projects |
| Australian Poetry | $15,000 | Australian Poetry Events Program 2026 |
| Australian Publishers Association | $25,000 | BookUp: Australian Book Industry Conference 2026 |
| Australian School Library Association | $10,000 | ASLA DANZ Authentic Voices Australia: an online platform |
| Bankstown Arts Centre (Canterbury Bankstown Council) | $15,000 | Artist commissioning fee for Shireen Taweel |
| Contemporary SA Incorporated, trading as Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) | $29,075 | Tactile Worlds: Dark Forest and Colour Forest – Connecting Educators and Students with Australian Art |
| Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation Ltd | $15,000 | Artist Fees for Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Public Program |
| Eleanor Dark Foundation | $14,100 | Varuna Book Club: Reading First Nations Literature |
| Express Media Inc | $25,000 | Toolkits 2026 |
| Ford Street Publishing | $15,000 | Anthology of fiction and art for primary and secondary students |
| Informit, RMIT UP | $12,000 | Kummargii Yulendji Symposium 2026 focussed on change towards Indigenising the libraries and publishing sectors |
| Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) | $8,750 | IPEd major awards and prizes |
| International PEN Melbourne Centre Inc | $8,000 | Keeping Words Free 2026 |
| International Pen Sydney Centre Inc. | $8,000 | PEN Free Voices |
| Magabala Books (Aboriginal Corporation) | $20,000 | Daisy Utermorrah Award for First Nations writers |
| Meanjin Papers | $30,000 | A New Meanjin: Fees for Writers in 2026 |
| Melbourne Holocaust Museum | $15,750 | Artist Residency Melbourne Holocaust Museum |
| Poetry in Action | $27,630 | The Power of the People |
| Stella | $30,000 | The Stella Prize 2027 – Longlist authors’ prize money and judges’ fees |
| Sydney Review of Books | $22,000 | 2026 JUNCTURE Fellowship Program for mid-career Australian literary critics |
| University of Queensland | $30,000 | AustLit Creative Writing Fellowships |
| University of Tasmania | $23,500 | The Forest Writer-in-Residence Fellowship |
| University of Technology Sydney | $30,000 | Copyright – UTS Indigenous Writers’ Fellowship 2026/2027 |
| UNSW Press | $19,000 | Best Australian Science Writing and Bragg Prizes for Science Writing |
| West Space | $22,300 | 2027 West Space Commission Program |
| WestWords | $26,885 | Writers in Western Sydney Schools |
| Wheeler Centre: Books Writing Ideas | $12,500 | Conversations with Writers in Regional Victoria |
| Word Travels | $20,000 | Chasing Change |
| Writing WA | $14,412 | Love to Read Local (LTRL) |
Click below to see successful projects we’ve supported in previous years:
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