August 15, 2024
The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) and Copyright Agency are pleased to announce that Alana Hunt is the fourth recipient of the Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) Commission. The $80,000 commission is an annual series presented by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund in partnership with leading Australian arts institutions. The commission supports mid-career and established […]
August 6, 2024
Jules Orcullo has been awarded the 2024 Griffin Award for outstanding new Australian playwriting for her play, My Dad Never Saw The Beatles. A musical, mythic retelling of an untrue event set in the Philippines in 1966, My Dad Never Saw The Beatles is about a daughter desperate to fulfil her Dad’s dreams—because in this […]
August 2, 2024
Alexis Wright has won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel, Praiseworthy. In winning this year’s award, Alexis joins a distinguished group of two-time winners including Michelle de Kretser, Kim Scott, Thomas Keneally and Patrick White. Alexis won the 2007 award for her novel, Carpentaria. On winning the award, Wright said: “I am […]
August 2, 2024
On 31 July, the US Copyright Office released a report that recommends a new right to protect against ‘digital replicas’ – the use of digital technology to realistically replicate an individual’s voice or appearance. You can see the report here. The report says: The Copyright Office agrees with the numerous commenters that have asserted an […]
August 1, 2024
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund announces $428,835 funding for 25 Australian organisations and a further $100,000 for five writers and visual artists. The Grants for Organisations and Create Grants were awarded following a competitive application process to the respective grant programs. Earlier this year, the Cultural Fund announced a shift in funding priorities to accommodate the […]
August 1, 2024
We congratulate author and Copyright Agency member, Charlotte Wood, whose latest novel, Stone Yard Devotional, is longlisted for the world’s most influential prize for a work of fiction, The Booker Prize. She’s the first Australian in eight years to achieve a place on the longlist. The Booker longlist of 13 books, known as the ‘Booker […]
July 31, 2024
Vale Ray Lawler We pay tribute to trailblazing Australian playwright, Copyright Agency member Ray Lawler, who recently passed away, aged 103. Acknowledged as Australia’s most famous play, Ray wrote Summer of the Seventeeth Doll, and performed in its first production in 1955. After enormous success throughout Australia, the play subsequently travelled to London and New […]
July 31, 2024
Maya Mulhall, a teacher from Blackburn High School in Victoria, is the 2024 Reading Australia Fellow for teachers of English and literacy and teacher librarians. The Reading Australia Fellowship provides $15,000 to a leading English and/or literacy teacher or teacher librarian to undertake a career-enhancing research project that will benefit the successful Fellow as well as the […]
