AIC Creative Grants Applications Now Closed!

2 x $10,000 Creative Grants on offer for First Nations storytellers, writers, illustrators and artists.

Magabala Books are proud to partner with Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC) to launch the inaugural AIC Creative Grants. These grants, worth $10,000 each, are intended to provide valuable time for storytellers, writers, illustrators and artists to work on a current manuscript or illustration portfolio.

The grant is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytellers and writers working in any genre, this could include junior, young adult and adult  fiction, non-fiction, poetry, memoir, children’s picture book and graphic novels. The grant is also open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and illustrators working in any medium.

Eligibility for Entry

To be considered for the grant, you must:

• Be an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person, currently residing in Australia;
• Be aged 18 years or over;
• Be working on an unpublished manuscript or portfolio of illustrations; and
• Be able to outline how you would benefit from this grant.
• Eligible manuscripts may be in English, Aboriginal English, an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander language, or a combination of these, including a bilingual
• Eligible artwork may be in any medium but must be scanned or photographed copies, please do not submit original work, as these will not be returned.
• The grant is open to manuscripts of junior, young adult and adult fiction, non-fiction, poetry, memoir, children’s picture books, graphic novels and we welcome illustrations for any genre.
• Board members and employees of Magabala Books are ineligible to apply. 
  
  

The 2023 AIC Creative Grants will open for applications in September 2023.   

Previous Grant recipients

2022 Winners

Casey Mulder (WA) received support for the development of her manuscript 'Over the Fire', a coming of age memoir of teaching in the Kimberley. 

Jenny Fraser (QLD) received support for the development of her manuscript 'Stories Pushed Down' / 'Tamrookum', a story about living on the frontier in times of massacres.