Opportunities and awards

Emerging composer fellowship open for applications, plus Victorian live music investment, finalists of play award and more!
2025 Createability Internship Program for creative practitioners with disability or who are d/Deaf. Image: Past Createability participant Holly Jane Cohle and Scott Andrew. A vibrant photo of Holly and Scott in discussion in front of a green and blue art piece laid out in front of them. Holly is sitting, wearing a pink beret with blue hair, a cartoon tshirt and a stripped jacket. Scott is standing and looking at holly, wearing a grey scarf and black jacket. They appear to be inside a studio or warehouse.

2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

Entries are open for the 2025 Victorian premier’s Literary Awards with the introduction of a new award category, the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing. The new award expands the total prize pool to $315,000, with The Wheeler Centre providing a further $2000 for the People’s Choice Award. Winners of of the seven main categories – Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Award for Indigenous Writing, Children’s Literature and Writing for Young Adults – each receive $25,000.
Entries close 27 September; learn more and enter.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_