Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 28 July to 3 August 2025

ArtsPay releases No Fuss funding, 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards now open, callout for new romance anthology, New York residency and more.
Discover the best new opportunities, grants and awards. Image: Noah Buscher on Unsplash.

2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

Submissions are now open for the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs) championing excellence across Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Indigenous Writing, Children’s Literature and Writing for Young Adults. Each category winner receives $25,000, with all six going on to compete for the Victorian Prize for Literature.
Submissions close 29 August; learn more and submit.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_