Booker Prize 2025: longlist announced
This year's Booker Prize longlist features authors representing four continents and nine countries.
Creative State 2028: the Victorian arts sector responds
Peak bodies and cultural institutions respond to Victoria’s newly released cultural policy, Creative State 2028.
Opportunities and awards
Lifetime Achievement nominations for Queensland performing arts professionals, new poetry in translation prize, music fund recipients and more.
‘I’m tired of barely being paid.’ Artists are living below the poverty line
Did artists feel the recent indexed wage increase? No. They largely remain on the poverty line. And this week’s speculated…
Arts Law not shy in criticism of Productivity Commission report on AI
Favoring a lack of AI regulation over economic output, the Productivity Commission’s recommendations puts artists at risk.
Opportunities and awards
Entries open for Human Rights Essay Competition and MAC yapang Art Prize, plus winner of Penguin Literary Prize and more.
Bakers Lane Books launches with $10,000 prize to support emerging women writers
A new kid on the block promises to amply Australian women's voices.
7 strategies to cope with grant rejection (at any stage of your career)
Grant rejection is a reality for artists at every stage of their career, but with the right mindset, support and…
Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 22 to 28 July 2025
Adelaide Fringe poster competition returns, Creative WA Fellowships for young talent plus Lester Prize shortlist and more opportunities.
Top arts prize winners, shortlists and finalists: 22 to 28 July 2025
Winners of LGBTQIA+ choir competition, 2025 Pinnacle Awards, plus arts grant recipients sharing $15 million and more.
