The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recognised the unique value of travel in the development of writing and literary careers.
In partnership with the Myer Foundation, the Travel Fund supported emerging, midcareer and established Australian writers and literary sector workers in pursuing professional development opportunities. This included writers, editors, agents, publishers, librarians, booksellers, employees and associates of literary organisations and journals, and other literary professionals currently living in Australia.
Applicants applied for grants between $2,000 and $10,000. These grants supported professional development through travel.
Round 14 was the last cycle of the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund.
Round 14 recipients
- Journalist, author and filmmaker Antony Loewenstein (NSW) – awarded funding to travel to Israel and Palestine for his new book.
- Writer and researcher Zeynab Gamieldien (NSW) – awarded funding to travel to Cape Town, South Africa, to undertake research for her third novel on the experiences of Cape Malay and other non-white people during Apartheid.
- Author Andrea Rowe (VIC) – awarded funding to travel to Cairns, Queensland, to research and participate in reef restoration projects in the Great Barrier Reef for a picture book series.
- Writer Caitlyn Stone (WA) – awarded funding to travel to South Africa to uncover and trace the history of the South African anti-apartheid literary magazine, Staffrider.
- Playwright, musician and producer Joel Te Teira (VIC) – awarded funding to travel to Canada to attend the First People’s Arts Gathering.
- Writer Vivian Pham (NSW) – awarded funding to travel to the UK to attend a writing residency at the University of Oxford to complete a novel-in-verse.
- Writer and poet Elizabeth Walton (NSW) – awarded funding to travel to Leeds, London and Dublin to launch her book of How to Read a City, Your Place of Last Resort.
- Writer Ledya Khamou (VIC)– awarded funding to travel to Turkey to conduct research for her novel Food Baby.
- Writer Laura Elizabeth Woollett (VIC) – awarded funding to travel to the UK to promote the book Hell Days, her first work of non-fiction.
Previous recipients
Inga Simpson, Ernest Price, Jennifer Down, Lisette Muratore, Emily Maguire, Bradley David , Clare Atkins, Dr Kate Cuthbert (Books + Publishing)
Round 12 recipients
Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Deborah Huff-Horwood, Gurmeet Kaur, Jack Latimore, Manisha Anjali, Ronnie Scott, Sera Jonas Jakob and Vuong Pham. Read the full announcement on our website here.
Round 11 recipients
Elfy Scott, Laura Jean McKay, Lisa Fuller, Lystra Rose, Jo Langdon, Sam Elkin, Sarah Firth and Sharlene Allsopp. Read the full announcement on our website here.
Round 10
Alana Hicks, Alison J Barton, Ana Brawls, Carly Findlay, Eda Gunaydin, Emily Bitto, Meleika / vika mana, Muhib Nabulsi, Tim White. Read the full announcement on our website here.
Round 9
Brian Obiri-Asare, Aimee Chan, Amy McQuire and Matt Chun, Jack Kirne, Stefan Sabatini, Lorna Munro and Karen Wyld. Read the full announcement on our website here.
Round 8
Daniel Ward, Katrina Trinh, André Dao, Eunice Andrada, Hasib Hourani, Simone Jordan, Eugen Bacon. Read the full announcement on our website here.
Round 7
Aimee Knight, Alison Gibbs, Eileen Herbert-Goodall, Jazz Money, Micaela Sahhar, Nicole Lee, Robert Wood, Sara Saleh, Susan Francis, Yen Pham.
Round 6
Amanda Anastasi, Madeleine Gray, Shakira Hussein, Miranda Luby, Brooke Maddison, Marjon Mossammaparast, Michael Ryan, Michelle Scott Tucker, Mark Smith, Annabel Stafford, Lowana Tudor-Smith, Kate Wild.
Round 5
Cate Kennedy, Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk, Fiona Hardy, Madelaine Dickie, Maria Takolander, Mirandi Riwoe, Robert Lukins, Ruhi Lee, Sara Saleh, Tamara Lazaroff.
Round 4
Annabel Brady-Brown, Cher Tan, Ellen O’Brien, Fiona Murphy, Heather Dyer, Melanie Joosten, Oliver Reeson, Sara Mansour, Sista Zai Zanda, Susie Anderson, Yvette Holt.
Round 3
Allison Colpoys, Cassandra Pybus, Christine Sun, Eleanor Limprecht, Josephine Wilson, Katherine Collette, Lauren Chater, Sam Twyford-Moore, Tom Holloway.
Round 2
Bruce Pascoe, Chris Andrews, Damon Young, Ellen van Neerven, Emma Viskic, Janine Mikosza, Jennifer Porter, Jessica Friedmann, Laura Woollett, Louis Klee, Melinda Smith, Rebecca Giggs, Sam Cooney.
Round 1
Alexandra Collier, Andrew Bovell, Arwen Summers, Bren MacDibble, Eda Gunaydin, Mark O’Flynn, Michael Earp, Michael Green, Robert Dessaix, Vanessa Russell.