Funding

In recognition of the routes and currents and tides that connect us all, Portside Review acknowledges that money matters to writing and culture. It circulates or can be buried on islands of your choosing or traded like spices wherever the wind blows. It allows us to buy wooden boats in glass bottles, to knot ropes, to pay for parking when we build sandcastles. We are able to pay our contributors at regionally competitive rates due to our funding agencies, which work in Australian dollars and are situated in developed cities.

We say thank you to our parent organisation Centre for Stories and to the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries of the State Government of Western Australia, Creative Australia and the Founders Circle. We thank our Portside Review subscribers who fund contributor payments.

Portside Review also knows it is in a position of privilege; there is a necessity but also a responsibility to be a good fellow sailor if not a lifeguard patrolling the water between the flags. That is why we give contributors the option to donate part or all of their fee to a worthy cause that fits our values. We also make a small monthly donation to those organisations ourselves.