Opportunities and awards

Calling for wearable art entries, international residencies now open, plus winners of NT Performing Arts Awards and more!
Audio-visual artist Robin Fox announced as Melbourne Recital Centre's 2025 Artist-in-Residence. Image: 'Constellation', 2021. Photo: Supplied.

The Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award for 2025

The Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award is given to the best original book of the previous year dealing with any aspect of Australian life, first published by an Australian publisher. The winner of the 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award will receive $50,000 in prize money and be presented with the H. T. Priestley Medal.
Nominations close 16 December; learn more and nominate.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's 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_