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Thelma 2024 (detail) by National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 Finalist, Em Jensen | opportunities and awards
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 16 to 22 February 2026

Closing soon: amazing opportunities for musicians, photographers, poets and literary journals.

QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Sheil. Image supplied.
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Meanjin resurrection: QUT takes on Australia's iconic literary journal

Queensland University of Technology is the new home of the literary journal Meanjin.

The late Jon Kudelka. A plump, smiling fair-skinned man with short brown hair and a short beard. He is smiling, wears a plaid shirt, and sits in front of a colourful yellow backdrop.
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Vale Tasmanian cartoonist and artist Jon Kudelka

Remembered and admired for his Walkley-winning political cartoons, as well as his illustrations and anti-Tasmanian tourism stance, Kudelka died on…

Andy Griffiths has been announced as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2026 and 2027.
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Andy Griffiths appointed as national ambassador for Australian children’s literature

The much-loved children's author Andy Griffiths turns a new page as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2026-2027.

The Creative Workplaces Survey is an Australian first.
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Have your say in Australia’s first national survey into working conditions in the creative industries

The Creative Workplaces Survey is open now – and it could be a game-changer for the arts and culture sector.

Adelaide Writers' Week at the 2025 Adelaide Festival. Audiences sit under blue shade cloths in the park at Adelaide Writers' Week.
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New Adelaide Festival Board apologises to Randa Abdel-Fattah and former Writers' Week Director Louise Adler

48 hours after its appointment, the new Adelaide Festival Board has apologised 'unreservedly' and recinded the old Board's actions.

Four books in a pile; the topmost book is open, with two pages bent together to form the shape of a love heart. Indie Book Awards 2026, indie book awards
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Shortlist announced for Indie Book Awards 2026

The nation's indie booksellers have spoken, so which authors are up to win Book of the Year?

A black and white photo of a coffin heaped with flowers in the back of a hearse. Adelaide Writers Week
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Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled, remaining Board members step down

A safe and successful Adelaide Festival is now the focus, as the arts sector and festival goers wait for the…

Louise Adler: former director of Adelaide Writers' Week.
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Director Louise Adler quits as Adelaide Writers Week crisis deepens

With more than 100 writers withdrawing from the festival program, Adler’s resignation, and legal letters flying, the future of Adelaide…

Randa Abdel-Fattah Adelaide Writers Week
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Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as almost 100 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah

Helen Garner, Melissa Lucashenko and Zadie Smith are among the more than 40 writers to have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers…

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