Opportunities and awards

ACT Book of the Year nominations open, plus recipients of Playing Australia fund and finalists of 2025 Asia Pacific Arts Awards, and more!
2024 Urbach recipient Ellen Lee, photographed inside a softly lit space where she is kneeling on the ground and working watery brown colours into a flat canvas.

Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award

The Kathleen Mitchell Award is presented biennially to the author, aged 30 or under, of an outstanding novel or novella to encourage advancement in their literary career. The novel or novella must have been published or accepted for publication within the two years prior to the Award closing date, with the winner taking home $15,000.
Applications close 4 February; learn more and apply.

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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_