The Copyright Agency’s Author Fellowship will support an established Australian author to create a new work for publication or performance and is open to novelists, playwrights, poets, children’s and young adult writers, picture book illustrators and journalists.

The Copyright Agency's Author Fellowship will support an established Australian author to create a new work for publication or performance and is open to novelists, playwrights, poets, children's and young adult writers, picture book illustrators and journalists.

The Fellowship will provide sustained support for a year to one Australian author to create a significant new work (or a series of books if writing for children and young adults). Applicants should submit a compelling and detailed description of their project accompanied by a writing sample to demonstrate their literary merit.

To be eligible to apply for this grant, applicants must meet the following eligibility requirements:

• Have previously published/performed at least five full-length works of their own creative writing (of which two books may be self-published)
• Secured either a publishing contract for the work or a letter of interest or intent to publish from an Australian-based publisher/theatre company
• Authors must submit their own applications. Publishers cannot apply on behalf of authors.
• Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident
• Any overdue Cultural Fund grants must be acquitted

• Email: culturalfund@copyright.com.au