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Peter Porter Poetry Prize welcomes submissions, new Deaf Writing Commission, plus winners of PICA commissions and new ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, and more!

21 Aug 2024 9:28

Celina Lei

Second Generation Collective awarded $100,000 through Creative Australia’s VACS Major Commissioning Projects Fund/PICA. A woman with flow brown hair swept up by the wind. She is hinding her face behind her hands with Farsi text. She is standing in a desert.

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Second Generation Collective awarded $100,000 through Creative Australia’s VACS Major Commissioning Projects Fund/PICA. Image: Supplied.

2025 Stella Prize

The Stella Prize is a major literary award celebrating Australian women and non-binary writers. The $60,000 prize is awarded annually to one outstanding book of fiction, non-fiction or poetry. Books entered in the 2025 Stella Prize must be first published between 1 January and 31 December 2024.
Early bird entries close 25 August with general entries closing on 6 October; learn more and enter.

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Celina Lei

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_