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Submit to 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship

Open date: 9am (AEST), Tuesday 1 October 2024

Close date: 5pm (AEDT), Saturday 16 November 2024
 

Applications are now open for the 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. 

Now in its thirteenth year, the Fellowship commemorates the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley (1951–2011) and awards $20,000 to an emerging or established Australian writer to support research and development of a new biographical or autobiographical work. The Fellowship is open to Australian writers of biography and memoir but can also extend to include a writer working on an aspect of cultural or social history. It may be used to fund research or travel, to develop a new proposal, or to progress a manuscript for submission to potential publishers. Judges will be looking for applicants who demonstrate excellence in the quality of their work, courage in their choice of project, and a passionate engagement with the world of ideas and the way that people live their lives. The subject of the biography needs to be someone who made a demonstrable contribution to society. 

Applications close at 5pm (AEDT) on Saturday 16 November 2024. 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS 

  1. Applicants must be over 18 years of age. 
  2. Applicants must be Australian citizens (living anywhere) or permanent residents and write in English. 
  3. The Fellowship will not cover tuition fees, professional editing, research assistant salary, PhD research or publishing subsidy. 
  4. Projects must be works of non-fiction biography or memoir (rather than biographical fiction). 
  5. Where relevant, the work must comply with the Creative Australia Protocols for Producing Indigenous Australian Writing. 
  6. Those shortlisted will be notified in January 2025 and the recipient will be notified in February 2025 before the public announcement in March 2025. 
  7. The successful applicant will enter into an agreement to be negotiated with Writers Victoria and the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund Advisory Committee. The agreement will cover the project timeline, payment schedule and reporting requirements. 
  8. The Fellowship must be commenced and expended within 12 months of receipt of funds. 
  9. All Fellowship recipients travelling in 2025-26 must agree to comply with public health restrictions before, during and following travel. 
  10. The Fellowship recipient will be required to complete an artistic and financial report (acquittal) halfway through and at the completion of the project. 
  11. The Fellowship will be acknowledged in any publication resulting from the work supported during the Fellowship. 
  12. The Fellowship recipient will be asked to provide three copies of any subsequently published biography or work to the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund Advisory Committee. 
  13. The judges’ decision will be final. No correspondence will be entered into. 

For more information, please email Gabriella Munoz at gabriella@writersvictoria.org.au. 

This year there will be an online information session on 9 October at 12pm. Visit the Writers Victoria website to register for the event: Event - Writers Victoria

The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship is supported by the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund, a sub-fund of Australian Communities Foundation.



 

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