Steggall wins Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship

Stephany Steggall has won the 2013 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship.

Writers Victoria said in a statement that Steggall will use the $10,000 fellowship to work on a biography of Australian author Thomas Keneally. Steggall has previously written biographies of Colin Thiele, Ivan Southall and Bruce Dawe.

Steggall was announced as the winner of this year’s prize at a lecture commemorating the life and work of Hazel Rowley at Adelaide Writers Week. The prize was judged by Alex Miller, who spoke at the lecture, Jim Davidson, Lynn Buchanan and Rowley’s sister Della Rowley.

The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was established in 2011 by the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund, with the support of Writers Victoria, to encourage Australian authors to attain a high standard of biography writing and to commemorate the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley, who died in 2011. Steggall’s project was selected from a shortlist that included projects by Ann-Marie Priest, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen O’Neill, John Murphy, Lisa Milner and Sheridan Palmer.

Mary Hoban won the inaugural Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship in 2012 for a biography of Julia Arnold.

For more information about the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund, visit the Writers Victoria website here.

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