Australia
Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 18-24 August 2025
New nature writing prize, $10,000 for emerging singer-songwriters, mural commission, WA grant funding and more opportunities.
Bendigo Writers Festival has questions to answer over code of conduct
At a time when journalists are being permanently silenced by Israel’s genocidal forces, it is incomprehensible that a writers’ festival…
Bendigo Writers Festival 2025: why we cancelled our panel
33 writers have cancelled their appearances at Bendigo Writers Festival in protest over a last-minute request to sign a ‘self-censoring’…
10 upcoming photography festivals across Australia and Asia
Photography is trending globally – from collectors to content creators. We look at what’s hot, and where to see it.
AI and artists: will anyone care when human creativity is usurped?
Perhaps the scariest thing about AI and artists isn’t that it will do creators out of their jobs but that…
Wenona Byrne: 5 questions for Writing Australia's new director
Wenona Byrne discusses some of the ins and outs of her new position as Director of Writing Australia.
Would That It Were a Fortress review: June Jones EP is a chrysalis
June Jones’ music is intensely personal, interrogating gender identity, mental health, disability and what healing might look like.
The 39 Steps review: Hitchcock gets the slapstick treatment
Hitchcock spy thriller meets Monty Python-style humour in The 39 Steps, a rollicking action-comedy.
The secret diary of an Australian arts freelancer, aged 46¾
Being an Australian arts freelancer can be lots of fun, right? Well, yes, kind of, but ...
Free exhibitions in Queensland August 2025
Your guide to free exhibitions in Queensland this August, including contemporary photography and landscape paintings.