The Copyright Agency: Create Grant
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Applications close - 1pm 19 September 2022
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.
ABOUT CREATE GRANTS
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.
Please note, eligibility requirements have changed for 2022.
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.
Create Grants do not support work aimed specifically at the scholarly or academic market.
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.