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History
The Abbie Clancy Award, named after Abigail Mary Clancy (1898-1984), one of the founders of the Society of Women Writers and a prominent early 20th-century journalist, is sponsored by the Society of Women Writers NSW. The bursary is open to female honours and post-graduate students attending universities in New South Wales, who submit an abstract of an unpublished research paper on the published or unpublished work(s) of fiction or non-fiction of an Australian woman writer or journalist.
N.B. The award appears not to be given in 2014 or 2019.
Source: Society of Women Writers NSW.
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A bursary awarded annually to a needy and deserving English honours student studying at an Australian university.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2022
winner Toyah Webb for 'I’m the kin: The Nonhuman Poetics of Laura Jean McKay’s The Animals in That Country'. -
Year: 2021
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Year: 2020
winner Sarah Pope for 'To Be and Be Seen: Alice Jane Muskett (1869–1936) and the ‘Role of the One Who Looks On’. -
Year: 2018
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Year: 2017
winner Katrina Foster
