Opportunities and awards

Creative Futures Fund for works of scale, international opportunities, plus Adelaide chorus strikes gold in Aotearoa and finalists of National Indigenous Music Awards announced!
Finalists for 2024 World of WearableArt Competition announced, including Sol Invictus, who was also a finalist of 2023 WOW. A model wearing a golden wings on her head and an armour resembling the sun, standing in a power pose with more performers in the background.

31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards

The 31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards for Australian women’s best short crime and mystery stories is offering a record $13,400 in prize money. The prompt this year is a photo of a scarlet stiletto, lying mysteriously abandoned in Melbourne’s streets outside a Chinese restaurant, next to an empty bottle of wine, and authors are encouraged to take it from there. The competition is open to all women, whether cisgender, transgender or intersex, who are citizens/residents of Australia.
Entries close 31 August; learn more and enter.

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. 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. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_