The Copyright Agency’s Create Grants support mid-career Australian creative writers and visual artists to create and develop new work. These grants provide a living allowance for writers and visual artists to write and create a new work for publication and exhibition.

Create Grants will support Australian creative writers who have published or performed at least one work and no more than four works in the genres of fiction, poetry, children’s literature, young adult literature, picture book illustration, graphic novels, playwriting and literary non-fiction. Visual artists must have at least five and no more than ten years’ professional experience, with no more than ten solo exhibitions.

If applicants are working in collaboration, all applicants must be mid-career writers or visual artists, and meet the eligibility criteria.

Four grants in total will be awarded in 2022. The Cultural Fund will support two grants for writers and two grants for visual artists. Amount of grant: $25,000 Projects should start after 1 January 2023 and span four to twelve months.

Applications close: 1pm, 19 September 2022

For more information please click on the links below

Create Grants Grant | ArtsHub Australia

Create Grants – Copyright Agency