AIC Creative Grants Applications Now Open.

Submissions for AIC Creative Grants are currently open.

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.

Please contact us at projects@magabala.com or call Magabala Books on 08 9192 1991 with any queries or to discuss your application.

Download the application form here.

For more information, please check out the AIC website here.  

Previous Grant recipients

2023 Winners

Daniel Browning received support to write his second non-fiction literary piece, 'Parallel Lives', which follows the intertwined stories of two Aboriginal men who went to Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Neika Lehman received support to work on their manuscript, an untitled collection delving into ancestral stories told by Elders and family of poetry, fiction & archival images, set in their home of Lutruwita (Tasmania).

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.