Prizes and competitions to enter in 2025
A go-to list of prizes and competitions across the visual arts, performing arts and writing, periodically updated.
Arts prize winners and finalists: 29 July to 4 August 2025
William Barton portrait awarded Archibald People's Choice, memoir of war wins National Biography Award. This week's prize winners and finalists.
Writers Victoria
Workshop and Online Feedback Clinic: Writing Ecologies
Session 1 | Online | 30 August In the first online 3-hour session you will analyse different approaches to writing environmental…
Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 11-17 August 2025
New award opportunities, commission for Queensland playwrights and grants up to $80,000.
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.
How to write for Star Wars: 4 lessons from writers who broke into Marvel, Doctor Who and more
Always wanted to write for Star Wars? What about Doctor Who, Marvel or DC? Such things are possible with patience…
Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 18-24 August 2025
New nature writing prize, $10,000 for emerging singer-songwriters, mural commission, WA grant funding and more opportunities.
Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 28 July to 3 August 2025
ArtsPay releases No Fuss funding, 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards now open, callout for new romance anthology, New York residency…
Writers Victoria
Creative Non-Fiction with Hayley Singer
Hayley Singer will give you the tools you need to explore the rich possibilities of creative non-fiction and how to…
Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 25-31 August 2025
ArtsHub's new Creative Journalism Fellowship, Create SA grants, environmental artist residency, First Nations Arts Leadership and more opportunities.
