Applications are now open for the inaugural Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The new national professional development opportunity for Australian literary professionals has been made possible by the generous support of The Myer Foundation. Named in honour of writer Neilma Sidney (1922-2015), the travel fund recognises the unique value of travel in the development of new writing […]
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Australian literary professionals will be able to follow their storylines around the country and overseas following the announcement of a new travel fund. Opening for applications in July 2017, the inaugural Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund will provide inspiration and practical support to emerging, midcareer and established writers, editors, agents, publishers, librarians, booksellers and other
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Ann-Marie Priest of Queensland was announced as the winner of the 2017 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship at the Adelaide Writers Festival last night. The announcement followed the Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture, given by Maxine Beneba Clarke, the 2014 recipient of the Fellowship for her memoir ‘The Hate Race’. Priest will use the $15,000 Fellowship to
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Writers with disability will benefit from a new program announced by Writers Victoria at the Having a Say Conference in Geelong last week. Write-ability Goes Regional and Online is a three-year program for aspiring writers with disability living in regional Victoria. The project has been assisted by the Australian government through the Department of Communication and
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Seven Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2017 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship worth $15,000. The 2017 Fellowship has attracted a strong field of high-quality proposals and includes a broad range of subjects and topics. “It’s wonderful to see the calibre of writing proposals from across Australia,” said Della Rowley, sister of biographer Hazel
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Five aspiring writers from migrant backgrounds have been shortlisted for the 2016 Deborah Cass Prize. Now in its second year, the prize was established in the memory of Melbourne writer Deborah Cass and aims to support unpublished authors from a migrant background to find a voice and to encourage them to finish and publish their
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Writers Victoria is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2016 Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. In the Short Fiction category, judges Astrid Edwards and Laurie Steed were impressed by the submissions, reporting that they saw “many glimpses of potential and interesting concepts.” But it was the originality and strength of execution that set
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In front of a packed audience at The Wheeler Centre, the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship winner was announced in Melbourne last night. Matthew Lamb was awarded the $10,000 Fellowship for his proposed cultural biography of the Australian writer Frank Moorhouse. Lamb’s biography will include not only a narrative of Frank Moorhouse’s life, but also
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Moreno Giovannoni was announced as the winner of the inaugural Deborah Cass Writing Prize at an event last night at Writers Victoria. The Prize was established in honour of Melbourne writer Deborah Cass and aims to aims to help someone from a migrant background find a voice for themselves and be encouraged to finish and publish
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Nine Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship $10,000 award. In its fifth year, the Fellowship attracted an exceptionally strong field of high-quality proposals from writers and biographers across Australia. Works about Australian writers, artists and visionaries feature in this year’s shortlist, which also includes European and American subjects. “I’m
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