Editorial Fellowship

Fellows learn structured publishing using the company's editorial templates. The training covers the full pipeline from draft to publication, with outputs that have a clear path to going live on company channels.

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What you'll work with

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• Webflow CMS Collections — production archive entries, review posts, and collaborator profiles, following our documented field schema.
• Substack workflows — long-form criticism, editorial calendars, and subscriber communications.
• Review-field schema — the standardised structure we use to make criticism scalable and consistent across publications.

Fellows learn the marketing rhythm of an independent producing company: how a season is planned, sold, and reported on without a large marketing budget.

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Areas covered

• Press release drafting and media outreach.
• Programme materials, including printed and digital assets.
• Festival platform listings, e.g. Eventotron and Sydney Fringe systems.
• Ticketing settlement and post-season reporting.
• Audience-development decisions behind a season's programming.

Fellows observe and contribute to live production work, taught against documented templates from the company's 2025 season.

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What this involves

• Rehearsal documentation — call sheets, run notes, and rehearsal photography systems.
• Programme assembly — credits, biographies, sponsor and partner acknowledgement.
• Image and consent release systems — performer agreements, image use, and archival permissions.
• Festival compliance — platform requirements, insurance, and venue documentation.
• Post-season financial settlement — profit-share distribution, expense reconciliation, and reporting.

Fellows write under editorial supervision, on subjects drawn from the company's existing writing remit: independent productions, festival programming, and publications already in our review pipeline.

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How writing is developed

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1. Brief — written brief at the start of each piece, with subject, angle, and word count.
2. Draft — Fellow writes the first draft against the brief.
3. Redline — supervisor returns the draft with structural and line-level notes.
4. Revision — Fellow revises across multiple passes until publication-ready.

Published pieces appear on the company's Writing page or in partner publications.

Fellows are introduced to the administrative scaffolding of an Australian arts organisation: the unglamorous infrastructure that determines whether artistic work can be made at all.

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What you'll learn

• Common application structures — project narrative, budget, statistical data, and support material.
• Partner outreach — sourcing, drafting prompts, and stakeholder management.
• ABN, insurance, and compliance — the registration and reporting requirements for a producing entity.
• Festival platform settlement — reconciliation against Eventotron and similar systems.
• Budgeting and acquittal cycles — the basic income/expense/in-kind framework used in grant applications.

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