Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Applications are now open for the 2021 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, valued at $15,000.
Now in its tenth year, the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship established to commemorate the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley (1951–2011), will award $15,000 to an Australian writer to support research and development of a biographical work.
Closing Date 16 November 2020
The Fellowship, which is administered by Writers Victoria, is open to Australian writers of biography or writers working on an aspect of cultural or social history compatible with Hazel’s own interests. The Fellowship encourages writers to immerse themselves in their subject’s life and culture. It may be used to fund research or travel, to develop a new proposal or progress a manuscript for submission to potential publishers. The winner of the Fellowship will be announced at Adelaide Writers Week in March 2021, following the Hazel Rowley Memorial lecture.
About Hazel Rowley
Before her untimely death in 2011, Hazel wrote four critically acclaimed biographies: Christina Stead: A Biography (1993), Richard Wright: The Life and Times (2001), Tête-à-Tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (2005) and Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage (2010). Erudite and accessible, these studies brought fresh attention to the lives and works of significant figures both nationally and internationally.
“My books are about people who had the courage to break out of their confined world and help others to do the same,” she said.