Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC) Creative Grants
2026 AIC Creative Grants are NOW CLOSED!
2 x $10,000 Creative Grants will be awarded to First Nations storytellers, writers, illustrators and artists.
Magabala Books are proud to partner with Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC) to offer the 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.
You must be able to outline how you would benefit from this grant and what the publication intentions are for your work. If a publishable work is produced as a result of the grant, Magabala Books reserves the first right of refusal to publish the work.
Successful applicants to be announced in late October 2026. The grants will re-open in 2027.
Previous Grant recipients
2025 Grant not opened.
2024 Winners
Aliyah Jayde Bradbury & Haylee Escalante
2023 Winners
Daniel Browning & Neika Lehman