(Last year's fellow was Lily Chan from Australia.)
The Peter Blazey Fellowship was established to honour the memory of Peter Blazey - journalist, author and gay activist - and has been made available through the generosity of Clive Blazey and Tim Herbert, brother and partner of Peter Blazey.
Blazey was born in Melbourne in 1939 and worked for the Australian, the National Times and as a regular columnist for OutRage magazine. He published a number of books, including a political biography of Henry Bolte, and was co-editor of the short fiction anthology, Love Cries. His personal memoir, ScrewLoose, appeared after his death from AIDS in 1997.
The Peter Blazey Fellowship was launched by the Hon. Justice Michael Kirby in May 2004.
The Fellowship is awarded annually to writers in the non-fiction fields of biography, autobiography and life writing and is intended to further a work in progress. Applications will be judged on literary merit, and the winner will be supported in his or her work by a cash prize of $15000, and a one-month writer-in-residency at the Australian Centre.
2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship
Applications are now invited for the 2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship. If you have enquiries, please contact awards-austcentre@unimelb.edu.au. For guidelines please download the application form: Blazey-app.pdf.
Applications close Friday, 18 June 2010.
More information here.
The Peter Blazey Fellowship was established to honour the memory of Peter Blazey - journalist, author and gay activist - and has been made available through the generosity of Clive Blazey and Tim Herbert, brother and partner of Peter Blazey.
Blazey was born in Melbourne in 1939 and worked for the Australian, the National Times and as a regular columnist for OutRage magazine. He published a number of books, including a political biography of Henry Bolte, and was co-editor of the short fiction anthology, Love Cries. His personal memoir, ScrewLoose, appeared after his death from AIDS in 1997.
The Peter Blazey Fellowship was launched by the Hon. Justice Michael Kirby in May 2004.
The Fellowship is awarded annually to writers in the non-fiction fields of biography, autobiography and life writing and is intended to further a work in progress. Applications will be judged on literary merit, and the winner will be supported in his or her work by a cash prize of $15000, and a one-month writer-in-residency at the Australian Centre.
2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship
Applications are now invited for the 2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship. If you have enquiries, please contact awards-austcentre@unimelb.edu.au. For guidelines please download the application form: Blazey-app.pdf.
Applications close Friday, 18 June 2010.
More information here.
