2009 NSW Writer’s Fellowship $20,000
Closing Date: 5:00pm, Wednesday 17 June 2009
The NSW Writer's Fellowship is offered annually by the Government to assist the
writing of a new literary work by a writer living in New South Wales.
Applicants are required to demonstrate that their proposal
- is likely to result in a work of significant quality;
- will be of demonstrable benefit to their development as a writer; and
- will contribute to the advancement of Australian literature.
Applicants are required to submit a completed Application Form (and a copy of it)
which outlines:
- details of the proposal;
- their qualifications and experience;
- evidence of their body of work; and
- ten pages of published material or, if they have not been previously published, ten single-sided typewritten A4 pages demonstrating their writing ability.
The fellowship may be awarded to a novelist, poet, playwright or other writer of fiction
or literary non-fiction.