Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2015 finalists announced
Writers Victoria has announced the finalists for the 2015 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical work.
The shortlisted writers and their projects are:
- Ann-Marie Priest for research into Australian poet Gwen Harwood
- Barry Divola for a biography of Australian band The Sunnyboys and singer-songwriter Jeremy Oxley, called Happy Man
- Biff Ward for her memoir Vietnam, Mon Amour
- Caroline Baum for research on the life and letters of Lucie Dreyfus
- Lyn Gallacher for a biography of Discurio record store owners Ruth and Peter Mann
- Naomi Parry for a biography of Indigenous bushranger Musquito
- Patrick Allington for research on the writing of David Malouf
- Ronnie Scott for research on Agatha Christie’s journey across three countries.
The fellowship, worth $10,000, is judged by biographers Jim Davidson and Janine Burke, Rowley’s friend and co-initiator of the fellowship Lynn Buchanan, and Rowley’s sister Della. The winner will be announced at an event at Adelaide Writers’ Week on 4 March.
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.
As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Maxine Beneba Clarke won the 2014 Fellowship for her memoir The Hate Race, which will be published by Hachette later this year. For more information about the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, visit the Writers Victoria website here.
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