2025 Young Creatives Awards Winners
Congratulations to all of our shortlisted entrants and thank you to everyone who entered.
Art Award Winners
Writing Award Winners
Film Awards Winners
About the Competition
The Young Creatives Awards are open to people aged 12 to 24 who live, work or study in the Inner West. Work can be submitted for the following categories:
Each category has three awards based on age: 12 to 15, 16 to 18, and 19 to 24.
Get your work seen
The awards are a chance to get your work seen with the finalist's works printed, performed and exhibited later in the year. Previous finalists have been commissioned for Inner West Council marketing campaigns and led creative workshops showing how the Young Creatives Awards can be a springboard to a creative career.
How to enter
Submissions are closed for 2025. Check back here in 2026.
2025 Competition
Prizes
- The total prize pool for 2025 is $8250
Winner of each age group and category: $500
Runner up of each age group and category: $250.
Librarians Choice for each category: $250
People's Choice Award for each category: $250
- Finalists' artwork in public exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery.
- Finalists' film screening for finalists and members of the public
- Finalists' written works are collated into a book and kept in our library collection.
- Content producer roles for Young Creatives Take Over festival program in 2026.
Conditions of entry
Choose an item in our library collection (digital, print, audio or DVD) and create your own work using this item as inspiration. Search our collection here.
- Writers: Submit a piece of writing which can be a short story, poetry, a fan fiction or a piece of prose that is 1000 words.
- Artists: Submit a photo of an artwork which can be a painting, drawing, sculpture, textile piece or still digital work.
- Filmmakers: Submit a MP4 file of a moving image digital work, animation, narrative film or music video between 2 and 7 minutes in duration.
Submit your entry using the correct link above. You can enter more than one work.
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Previous winners
Previous winners of the Young Creatives Awards