Wright wins Sri Lankan writing fellowship
Short story-writer Michelle Wright has won the first Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship, which is offered by Writers Victoria and Templeberg Villa, will send Wright on a 30 day...
Inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships announced
Angela Slatter, Kristina Olsson and Patrick Holland have been announced as the winners of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. The three authors, who were chosen from a field of 48...
Farrell wins Creative NZ Michael King Fellowship
New Zealand author Fiona Farrell is the recipient of this year’s Creative New Zealand Michael King Fellowship, worth NZ$100,000 (A$83,717). Farrell is the author of a number of novels, short...
New Writers Victoria fellowship announced
Writers Victoria, in association with Templeberg Villa, has announced a new international fellowship for writers. The inaugural Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship will give one writer the opportunity to work on...
Chinese writer wins inaugural NZ writing fellowship
The inaugural Rewi Alley Writing Fellowship has been awarded to Chinese writer Huo Yan. Huo, a 23-year-old PhD student at Beijing Normal University, will undertake a two-month writing project in...
2013 Unwin Trust Fellowship awarded to Fagan
HarperCollins publicity manager Kelly Fagan has been awarded the 2013 Unwin Trust UK-Australia Fellowship. Fagan will be sponsored by the UK-based Unwin Charitable Trust to spend three months in the...
2013 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellows announced
New Zealand novelists Hamish Clayton and Tanya Moir are the recipients of the 2013 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Clayton and Moir will each receive NZ$20,000 (A$16,300)...
Tumarkin wins 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship
Melbourne-based writer Maria Tumarkin has been awarded one of the 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, worth $160,000 over two years. As one of the seven Sidney Myer Creative Fellows, Tumarkin...
McGee awarded 2013 NZ$75,000 Menton Fellowship
Playwright and author Greg McGee has been awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship for 2013. The Fellowship provides the winner with a residency of at least six months in Menton,...
Goldsworthy to examine Australian review culture in ‘ABR’ fellowship
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced that Kerryn Goldsworthy will be the ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellow, and will ‘write a feature article on the current state of book reviewing...
Parrett wins Antarctic Arts Fellowship for second novel
Favel Parrett has been awarded the 2012 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship by the Australian Federal Government. Parrett, author of Past the Shallows (Hachette), will use the fellowship to research a novel...
Parrett wins Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship
Favel Parrett has been awarded the 2012 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship by the Federal Government. Parrett, whose debut novel Past the Shallows (Hachette) won the Australian Book Industry Award for Newcomer...
ABR offers fellowship for essay ‘on any aspect of literary studies’
The Australian Book Review is seeking proposals for a sixth Fellowship. The ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellowship is open to writers with a ‘significant publication record’ and is for ‘a...
NLA Fellowships announced
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of the 2013 National Library Fellowships. David Lee is the 2013 Minerals Council of Australia Fellow and Chiaki Ajioka is the 2013...
2012 kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowships announced
The winners of this year’s kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowships, presented as part of the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Program, have been announced. This...
Morrow releases Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report
Former Penguin editor Jane Morrow has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report into digital developments in US publishing, following placements with Penguin in New York, Chronicle Books in San...
Glenfern fellowships recipients announced
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of this year’s Glenfern writers’ studio fellowships. Ramona Koval, David Sornig and Libby Hart are the recipients of the Readings Glenfern Fellowships for Mid-Career...
Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships announced
The Wheeler Centre has announced the first intake of writers for this year’s Hot Desk Fellowships, supported by the Readings Foundation. Among the first intake are Luke Ryan, Mel Campbell,...
‘ABR’ fellowships recipients announced
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the recipients of its fourth and fifth Patron’s Fellowships. Jennifer Lindsay is the recipient of the ABR Copyright Agency Fellowship ‘for a substantial...
WA author wins Creative Australia Fellowship
Western Australian author Annabel Smith has been selected as one of the 11 recipients of the 2012 Creative Australia Fellowships, awarded by the Australia Council for the Arts. Smith is...