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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.

18 Aug 2025 9:00

Celina Lei

Paper notes flying onto a stage with one performer standing in the centre with arms outstretched.

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Quensland Theatre prodution, ‘Return to Dirt’, 2021, QPDA Winner 2020. Entries now open For 2026. Photo: Brett Boardman.

Island – Nature Writing Prize

A new partnership between Fullers Bookshop Hobart and the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), this Nature Writing Prize will be judged ‘blind’ with the winner receiving a week-long funded writers residency at TLC’s Sloping Main Reserve. The winning writer’s piece will be published in Island issue 176, due for publication in December 2025, at usual publication rates.
Entries close 25 August; learn more and enter.

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Celina Lei

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_