Anne Edgeworth Fellowship Award: Submission Deadline
Tuesday 28 April
The Anne Edgeworth Fellowship has championed the work of exceptional writers—including Jacqueline de Rose-Ahern, Lisa Fuller, Zoya Patel, Rosanna Stevens, Samantha Tidy, and Elizabeth Walton—many of whom have gone on to create remarkable and enduring works.
Anne Edgeworth (also known as Anne Godfrey-Smith) was a prominent poet, writer, theatre director, academic, conservationist and activist for reconciliation. Anne mentored many young writers as a tutor, author and poet and her family established this annual award for emerging writers in her memory.
The Anne Edgeworth Writer’s Fellowship is provided to an emerging writer in the Canberra Region. The Fellowship is worth up to $5,000 and is to be used to advance the recipients’ development in the craft of writing. The Fellowship is provided annually by the Anne Edgeworth Trust and is administered by MARION.
The Fellowship can be used for any purpose that furthers the recipients’ development in their chosen field of writing, and must be associated with another organisation or individual concerned with creative writing. Examples of ways the fellowship may be applied include: tuition fees, travel, accommodation, printing and publishing, editing, writers’ retreat, conference etc. The funds cannot be used to purchase capital equipment (eg computers) or subsidise an existing commercial or non-profit activity. The project must be completed within a twelve-month period.