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Australia Council ‘new work’ grants announced

2 December 2014   Books+Publishing
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The Australia Council has announced the successful applicants in its ‘new work’ grant categories.

Fiona McFarlane (The Night Guest, Penguin) and Courtney Collins (The Burial, A&U) are among the authors to receive grants. A statement from the Australia Council said McFarlane will use the grant to write a new book exploring ‘an overlooked aspect of Australian history’ and interrogating ‘national narratives about race, immigration and war’. Collins will work on her second book The Walkman Mix, about ‘someone who is looking for love in all the wrong places in a fictional mining town in New South Wales in 1992’.

The successful applicants are:

New Work Emerging Writers

Fiction

  • Stephanie Bishop ($40,000)
  • Courtney Collins ($40,000)
  • Patrick Cullen ($40,000)    
  • Fiona McFarlane ($40,000)
  • Josephine Rowe ($40,000)
  • Jane Skelton ($10,000) 

   

Poetry

  • Daniel Disney ($40,000)    
  • Kerrie Glastonbury ($10,000)    
  • Sarah Holland-Batt ($40,000)  

  

Nonfiction

  • Deirdre O’Connell ($40,000)

 

New Work Developing Writers  

Fiction

  • Lenny Bartulin ($40,000)
  • Jill Dobson ($10,000)
  • Jacinta Halloran ($10,000)    
  • Kristina Olsson ($40,000)   
  • Maria Takolander ($40,000)
  • Carrie Tiffany ($40,000)    
  • Kirsten Tranter ($40,000) 

  

YA literature

  • Melissa Keil ($40,000)
  • Jared Thomas ($40,000)

 

Poetry

  • Louise Crisp ($40,000)
  • Bronwyn Lea ($40,000)

 

Nonfiction

  • Delia Falconer ($40,000)
  • Mark Tredinnick ($40,000)

 

Writing for performance

  • Mari Lourey ($40,000)
  • Louris van de Geer ($10,000)

 

New Work Established Writers 

Fiction

  • Jesse Blackadder ($40,000)    
  • Danielle Clode ($40,000)    
  • Sofie Laguna ($10,000)    
  • Amanda Lohrey ($40,000)
  • Jaclyn Moriarty ($40,000) 

   

Poetry

  • Jordie Albiston ($40,000)    
  • Diane Fahey ($40,000)    
  • John Mateer ($40,000)
  • Andrew Sant ($40,000)

 

YA literature

  • Scot Gardner ($40,000)    
  • James Roy ($40,000)        

 

Nonfiction

  • Janine Burke ($40,000)  
  • Nadia Wheatley ($40,000)    

 

Writing for performance

  • Lachlan Philpott (writing for performance, $40,000)
  • Sue Woolfe (writing for performance, $40,000)    

 

 New Work Digital and New Media Writing  

  • Halcyon Macleod ($15,000).

 

The Australia Council will announce the recipient of its literature fellowship grant later in December.

 

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