Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients announced

Writers Victoria has announced the recipients for the 12th round of the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund.

The eight recipients—who share in funding of $50,795—are:

• Poet, producer, editor and weaver Anne-Marie Te Whiu—to attend The Church Rawene residency in the Hokianga, Aotearoa to work on her next manuscript
• Writer Deborah Huff-Horwood—to travel to South Australia to conduct research for her YA queer romance novel
• Poet, critic and artist Gurmeet Kaur—to attend a residency program in the UK and conduct research to develop her poetry collection, ‘So Much Sun’, which explores themes of memoir, haunting, place and global diasporic consciousness
• Writer and journalist Jack Latimore—to travel to the Northern Territory to work on his project on Australia’s assault on Aboriginal youth
• Poet and artist Manisha Anjali—to travel to her ancestral island, Taveuni, Fiji, to conduct research for her upcoming poetry collection
• Novelist and essayist Ronnie Scott—to travel to Spain to research his third novel, about queer filmmaking as AIDS memorial, at Filmoteca Española in Madrid
• Novelist and poet Sera Jonas Jakob—to travel to the Harz mountains of Germany to undertake family history research to complete her second novel
• Poet Vuong Pham—to visit the War Remnants Museum in Saigon to help craft his first full-length collection of poetry, ‘Reborn’.

Established in 2017, the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund provides access to professional development for emerging, mid-career and established Australian writers and literary sector workers.

Judges for the 12th round included author and researcher Carolyn Beasley, writer and teacher of creative writing Suzanne Hermanoczki, and author and editor Eileen Herbert-Goodall, who is also a previous recipient of the fund.

Further information about the fund is available on the Writers Victoria website.

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