The Copyright Agency Author Fellowship
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The Copyright Agency’s Author Fellowship will support an established Australian author to create a new work for publication or performance and is open to novelists, playwrights, poets, children’s and young adult writers, picture book illustrators and journalists.
The Fellowship will provide sustained support for a year to one Australian author to create a significant new work. Applicants should submit a compelling and detailed description of their project accompanied by a writing sample to demonstrate their literary merit.
As the Fellowship is intended to support one writer, joint applications are not eligible. The project should span up to 12 months. A project of one or two months is not regarded as a substantial Fellowship activity.
Non-fiction writers should apply for the Copyright Agency’s Fellowship for Non-Fiction Writing.
To be eligible to apply, the author must have a publishing contract or a letter of intent to publish from an Australian-based publisher. (This should not be a letter of support.) If you are a playwright and you are applying to write a new play, you must supply a contract or letter of intent from a theatre company.
This Fellowship will not replace any advance offered under the usual terms of a publishing contract.
The Fellowship is not intended to support the creation of work for an academic or scholarly purpose and readership. Applications are assessed by a panel of independent peers from the writing and publishing industry.