The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund offers grants to support key industry stakeholders to offer sustained and realistic support to Australian writers, publishers, and visual artists.

The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund supports leading Australian creative organisations and key industry stakeholders with grants to create and deliver exceptional opportunities for Australian writers, journalists, editors, publishers, English and literacy teachers, and visual artists, and especially for those from First Nations and diverse backgrounds.

The Cultural Fund will consider applications for the following projects:

Audience Development 

• Audience and reader development projects
• Payments to creative writers published in literary magazines and journals
• Reviews of new Australian books in national publications
• Projects connecting teachers with Australian Literature
• Writers/artists-in-residence/schools/universities
• Literacy-based projects for children involving professional writers
• Significant national writers awards for payments to writers (excluding prizes offered by publishers and literary journals)
• Publishing commissions to write new work by First Nations and culturally diverse authors
• Commissions for visual artists to create new work and whose work will be exhibited in galleries or institutions in Australia

Sector Development 

• Publishing industry leadership initiatives and opportunities for First Nations and diverse editors, publishers and journalists
• Visual arts sector leadership and policy development and opportunities for First Nations and diverse curators at galleries and cultural institutions

Amount of grant:  

• Minimum: $10,000
• Maximum: $30,000

The Cultural Funds priorities are:

• Commissions and paid opportunities for writers and visual artists through audience development projects
• Targeted leadership and sector development projects for the writing, publishing and visual arts sectors
• To complement Reading Australia, we are interested in supporting targeted writers-in-schools programs for Australian writers whose work is featured on Reading Australia or is used in the classroom

Who can apply 

• Legally constituted Australian organisations and incorporated associations may apply
• If applying as a University, only one application from the University may be submitted per round. You must confirm this before applying.
• Applicants may submit only one application per round to the Cultural Fund
• Applicants must have acquitted any overdue Cultural Fund grants to be eligible to apply for further funding

Who can't apply 

• Individuals or sole traders are not eligible to apply for these grants. 
• Government departments are not eligible to apply for these grants
• We do not accept auspiced applications
• Multi-arts festivals

• Email: culturalfund@copyright.com.au