Awards, Prizes,  and Opportunities -listed by closing date. 

30 April 2024 Arts on Tour EOI SALON is Arts on Tour’s key annual industry event that builds relationships between NSW and ACT artists, producers and presenters, creating opportunities for touring and partnerships.

30 April 2024 The Furphy Literary Award  has been established to promote and extend the tradition of story telling, both factual and fictional, that is so much part of Australian life. No more than 5000 words.

30 April 2024 The Junior Academy An initiative of the Country Music Assoc. The Academy places emphasis on nurturing different creative styles within the broad definition of country music today. Program runs in Tamworth.

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

1 May 2024 Churchill Fellowship A Churchill Fellowship offers Australian citizens and permanent residents a life-changing opportunity to travel overseas for four to eight weeks to learn more about a topic or issue that they are passionate about.

5 May 2024 Poetry Prize – Get thinking about the ‘winds of change’ – make a poetic response in whatever ways your imagination takes you.

6 May 2024 National Library Creative Arts Fellowships for 2025 offer $10,000 to support writers & artists to spend 4 weeks at the National Library researching & developing a new artistic concept, artwork or body of work inspired or informed by the collections.

12 May 2024 Waverley Artprize 2024 is open to painting, drawing, print and mixed media.

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.

22 May 2024 Bowral Sculpture Prize limit of 2 pieces per artist, must be the original work of the artist and not previously displayed with this society. All works must be for sale.

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.

31 May Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks.

31 May Tuggeranong Arts Centre (TAC) is calling for applications from local and interstate artists and curators for the 2025 exhibition program.

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.

10July Arts on Tour Salon 2024 EOI Salon is a pitching event that builds relationships between NSW and ACT artists, producers and presenters, creating opportunities for touring and partnerships