Awards, Prizes, and Opportunities -listed by closing date.
29 Mar 2024 Women & Leadership Australia has launched new partial scholarships for upcoming workshops.
5 April 2024 Goulburn Art Award The Award represents the talent and diversity of artists working within the region. The Gallery encourages submissions from artists at all stages of their careers.
5 April 2024 The heritage Festival 2024 Event registration The Festival Connects the community to the State’s rich and diverse heritage. The 2024 Theme is Connections, encouraging celebration of the rich and diverse stories of our nation.
5 April 2024 National Works on Paper The Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s NWOP attracts leading contemporary artists from across Australia working in the fields of drawing, printmaking, digital prints and paper sculpture.
17 April Waterbrook Landscape Prize works are the personal interpretation of the artist predominantly of the natural world but inclusive of the built environment. Works may be realistic or abstract.
18 April The Indigenous Storytellers Scholarship Aims to celebrate, sustain and grow Indigenous art and design in NSW.
30 April 2024 QPRC Art Award 2024 Council partnership with the Queanbeyan Art Society, open to all artists and craftspeople 16 years and over who reside in the Queanbeyan-Palerang LGA
10 May 2024 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards Established in 1991, the awards honour Banjo, a great writer and favourite son of Orange, with a competition encouraging Australian content. However, entries do not have to be written in Banjo’s style of bush writing.
27 may 2024 Far South Film Festival invite filmmakers from regional and remote areas of Australia to submit short films under 40 minutes or feature films under 90 minutes in length that reflect the people, environment and issues that matter to you to our festival.
3 June 2024 Emerging Playwright Commission Canberra Youth Theatre’s Emerging Playwright Commission offers a professional commission to an emerging Australian playwright, to create a new full-length work that brings the voices and stories of youth to the stage
30 June 2024 National Contemporary Art Prize Artists around Australia are invited to take part, with an increased prize pool of $48,000 up for grabs across 3 categories including: Open Prize, First Nations Prize for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists & the Sustainability Prize; with an additional $1,000 available for the People’s Choice winner.