Peter Blazey Fellowship

The Peter Blazey Fellowship in an Australian literary award, in honour of the life and work of Peter Bradford Blazey (1939-1997).[1]

Establishment of Fellowship

The Fellowship was established by Clive Blazey and Tim Herbert, respectively, brother and partner to Peter Blazey, to honour his life and work, as a journalist, author and gay activist.[2] The Fellowship was launched by the Hon. Justice Michael Kirby at the Australia Centre, in Melbourne, on 30 April 2004.[3]

Nature of Fellowship

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.[4] The Fellowship comprises a monetary prize and a one-month writing residence with the Australia Centre, within the University of Melbourne.

Fellowship winners

Year Name Project References
2004 Sara Hardy

|The Unusual Life of Edna Walling

[5]
2005 Jennifer Compton "Who Doesn't Want Me to Dance"
2006 Robert Kenny The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
2007 Judith Pugh "In My Seventies" -- published as Unstill Life: Art, politics and living with Clifton Pugh.
2008 Andrew Lindsay "The God of Morphine"
Dmetri Kakmi Motherland
2009 Maggie MacKellar "Anatomy of a Grief" -- published as When It Rains: A Memoir
2010 Lily Chan Toyo
2011 Robyn Davidson "Self-Portrait with Imaginary Mother" -- published as Unfinished Woman
2012 Helen Ennis Olive Cotton: A life in photography
2013 Kim Mahood Position Doubtful
2014 Michael Farrell

'The Case of Jong Ah Sing'

[6]
Mark Mordue Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave
2015 Rebe Taylor Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity
2016 Julia Leigh Avalanche
2017 Eleanor Hogan Into the Loneliness: The Unholy Alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates
2018 Cassandra Pybus Truganini: Journey through the Apocalypse
2019 Sanaz Fotouhi Love Marriage in Kabul: A Memoir
2020 Ellen van Neerven Personal Score
2021 Declan Fry "Justice for Elijah or a Spiritual Dialogue with Ziggy Ramo"
2022 Dženana Vucic "A Teleology"
2023 S.J. Norman Skin in the Game

References

  1. ^ AustLit Biography. http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A7191. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  2. ^ Australia Centre website. http://australian-centre.unimelb.edu.au/prizes/blazey. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  3. ^ Transcript of Speech from the Hon. Justice Michael Kirby. www.michaelkirby.com.au/.../1950-BLAZEY_FELLOWSHIP_MAY_2004.doc. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  4. ^ Australia Centre website. http://australian-centre.unimelb.edu.au/prizes/blazey. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Australian Centre Literary Awards – Peter Blazey Fellowship". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Peter Blazey Fellowship". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 31 March 2023.