AustLit
History
'The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship supports Australian writers of biography, and extends to include a writer who is working on an aspect of cultural or social history. The Fellowship awards $15,000 to assist with travel and research.'
Only content relevant to Australia is indexed in AustLit.
(https://writersvictoria.org.au/support/fellowships/hazel-rowley-literary-fellowship
Notes
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The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was established 'to encourage Australian authors to attain a high standard of biography writing and to commemorate the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley (1951-2011)'.
The fellowship is open to any 'Australian writer of biography', with preference being given to 'those projects that are about "risk-taking" and expanding horizons as well as those that promote discussion of ideas and make a significant contribution to public intellectual life'.
The fellowship enables 'a new proposal to be developed or an existing proposal to be further progressed. It may be used to fund research, mentoring or travel, or to progress a manuscript for submission or presentation to potential publishers.'
Source: Hazel Rowley website, http://www.hazelrowley.com/
Sighted: 07/11/2011
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2024
Also shortlisted: American legal scholar Sophie Cull, for writing about prison lawyer Calvin Duncan and his struggle for justice in the prison system in the USA.winner Kate Fullagar for a biography of Marguerite Wolters, an 18th-century spy mistress to empires and revolutionists. -
Year: 2023
winner Diane Bell for ‘The Queen and the Protector’, about Ngarrindjeri woman Louisa Karpany and South Australian Sub-Protector of Aborigines George Mason -
Year: 2022
winner Naomi Parry for writing about the life of Gai-mariagal man Musquito, who was killed in Tasmania in 1825. -
Year: 2021
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Year: 2020
Works About this Award
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Advances 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 379 2016; (p. 1-2, 11) -
Sisterly Love Continues Rowley's Legacy 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 26 November 2011; (p. 30) -
Bookmarks 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 5 November 2011; (p. 29) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on Robert Adamson's win in the 2011 Patrick White Award and news of the establishment of the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. (For further details of the latter, go to www.hazelrowley.com)