Kate Challis RAKA Award
This award, worth up to $20,000, is for the best book of poems already published and written in English, or a musical composition, by an Indigenous author or musician.
Application dates
Applications are currently closed
Application type
Application required
How to apply
Benefit type
Single payment
Full benefit details
Citizenship requirements
Australian / domestic student
Total value
up to $20,000
Applicable study areas
Performing and visual arts, theatre, film and television
Number of scholarships awarded
1
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"As an Aboriginal author, I understand the enormous importance and influence of the Kate Challis (RAKA) Award. I believe it is the most prestigious national and international benchmark for the promotion of excellence in Aboriginal art. This is the reason that I feel both extremely humble and proud that my work was chosen this year for literature, and to know that my work can stand beside those of our most talented and highly recognised artists."
- Alexis Wright
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Eligibility & selection criteria
Eligibility
To be eligible for this scholarship, you need to:
- be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander screenwriter
- have had your screenplay produced between January 2014 and January 2019
- Accept award online within 14 days
- Attend the award announcement
The recipient is required to:
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Application process
Submit your application online and upload the following documents to support your application:
- Curriculum vitae
- The script
- Link and password (if required) to the produced work, or supply as digital file
- Three high resolution film stills
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When will I know the outcome?
The shortlist will be announced in early August 2019.
The winner will be announced at the Australian Centre and Faculty of Arts Literary Awards event at the Melbourne Writers Festival on Saturday 7 September 2019.
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Variations of this scholarship
The prize is awarded in a five-year cycle with a different area of the arts – creative prose, drama, the visual arts, script-writing and poetry – being rewarded each year. Area of creative arts for 2020 is: the best book of poems already published and written in English, or a musical composition.
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About the donor
Professor Emeritius Bernard Smith
This award for Indigenous creative artists has been made available through the generosity of Professor Emeritus Bernard Smith, eminent art and cultural historian. The prize was established to honour the memory of his late wife, Kate Challis, who was known in her youth as Ruth Adeney (RAKA is an acronym for the Ruth Adeney Koori Award).
In the Pintupi language, 'raka' means 'five' and in the Warlpiri 'rdaka' means 'hand', and both meanings are particularly apt for a prize to be awarded in a cycle of five years to individual artists – novelists, poets, script writers, visual artists and playwrights – whose 'hands' are the basic means of creativity.
What are the benefits?
A single payment of up to $20,000
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