Wallman awarded Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Writing Fellowship

Centre for Stories has announced Sam Wallman as the recipient of the 2022 Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship.

Wallman receives $12,000, a workspace at the Centre for Stories in Perth, and access to the centre’s library, resources, workshops and events.

He will undertake the three-month fellowship in the first quarter of 2023 to work on his second book. In collaboration with journalist and Guardian columnist Jeff Sparrow, 12 Rules for Strife is a long-form comic exploring different principles that might guide political organising within social movements.

Judges John Ryan, Sisonke Msimang and Brooke Dunnell said that Wallman’s application ‘speaks to his body of work which is distinctive and deeply informed by the personal: all of it coheres around the practice of social justice through art. His new project, his second long-form work, a kind of “intersectional grassroots activist handbook”, is timely.’

Wallman is a comics journalist, writer and illustrator based in Melbourne. He is debut book Our Members Be Unlimited (Scribe), a long-form comic about the history and promise of collective action through unions, has been published in New Zealand, the US, Canada and the UK. His comics journalism has been published widely and nominated for three Walkley Awards.

In its second year, the Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Writing Fellowship is awarded to mid-career writers ‘in recognition of their literary achievements and commitment to humanity demonstrated through their active engagement in social justice issues’. The inaugural recipient was Shah Idil.

For more information, see the Centre for Stories website.

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