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Applications are now open for the ABC Young Performers Awards. Image: Ayako/Unsplash.
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Best opportunities, grants & awards for creatives: 2–7 March 2026

This week: growth opportunities for emerging classical musicians, dancers, visual artists, and more.

The artHITects with their winning artwork Wambuul (Proclamation Park Bathurst), winner of the 2025 Environmental Art & Design Prize – Art category. Photo: Shane Rozario/Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
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It’s time: why you should enter the 2026 Environmental Art & Design Prize

Winning the prestigious Environmental Art & Design Prize marked a pivotal moment for radical artist/architect duo, the artHITects.

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.

A photo of a gold medal suspended from a blue pin. Australia Day Honours
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Australia Day Honours 2026: celebrating those honoured for services to the arts

680 Australians from all walks of life were recognised today in the General Division of the Order of Australia, including…

Keith Urban Rising Star Scholarship. Photo: Supplied / GMT.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 26-31 January 2026

Keith Urban throws support behind the next country music star, major writers awards closing soon, and more.

Sydney Theatre Awards 2025 winners - Lincoln Elliott and Joel Granger Phar Lap The Electro-Swing Musical (c) Robert Catto
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Sydney Theatre Awards 2025: new Phar Lap musical and Belvoir's grief adaptation lead the winners' race

From a sassy indie smash-hit to a beautiful exploration of grief, here are the winners of the Sydney Theatre Awards 2025.

Ellen Dahl stands between two large scale photographs of landscapes.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 15-21 December 2025

Major prizes and opportunities for photographers, stage and screen writers, wearable art, and more.

From left, poet Judith Beveridge, winner of the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature; and the Hard-Ons' Raymond Ahn, the co-recipient of the Creative Australia Don Banks Music Award. An older, fair-skinned woman with greying hair and wearing a floral blouse, stands smiling in front of a packed bookcase. An older Korean-Australian man with a closely trimmed goatee and grey hair framing his face, smiles at the camera against a black backdrop. He wears a black t-shirt. Creative Australia Awards 2026
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Creative Australia Awards 2026 recognise arts practices from poetry to punk rock

Twelve artists – across disciplines including dance, literature, community arts and contemporary music – are recognised in this year’s Creative…

Queensland Literary Awards have announced their 2025 shortlist after an incendiary delay. The photo depicts a shelf of book of various sizes and formats.
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Queensland Literary Awards announces delayed shortlist after judges' mass resignation in May

The Queensland Literary Awards have announced their 2025 shortlist. A delay was caused by a mass resignation of judges, protesting…

Woman leans on grand piano smiling, where two students sit and look up at her. Strike a Chord.
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Opportunities and awards

This week's opportunities include short film funding in Blacktown and the 32nd Scarlet Stiletto Short Stories Awards, plus a call-out…

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