Write-ability Fellowships (2013-)
or Writeability Fellowships
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

Inaugurated by Writers Victoria in 2013, the fellowships support five writers with disability per year with free mentoring by authors, assessors and industry experts.

The fellowships have been variously supported by the Grace Marion Wilson Trust, the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation, the City of Melbourne, Perpetual Trustees, Copyright Agency Ltd, the Ian Potter Foundation, Perpetual, the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2023

recipient Grace Hall for 'Off Track'.
recipient Erin Scudder for 'The Idea of California'.
recipient Arlene TextaQueen for 'This Flower has a Spine'.

Year: 2022

recipient Dorian Sutton for 'The Passenger'.
recipient Emma Rennison for 'Not Guts, No Glory'.
recipient Juliet Sironi for '&'.
recipient Maggie Scott for 'The Bottle Factory'.
recipient Sarah Stivens for 'Therapeutic Discomfort'.

Year: 2021

recipient Beau Windon for 'A Proud Failure'.
recipient Chim Sher Ting for 'Solitude Is a Slow Self-Immolation'.
recipient Claire Capel-Stanley for 'The Hunters'.
recipient Sarah Halfpenny for 'The ABC of Melbourne Girlhood'.
recipient Steph Amir for 'Yeah nah, no worries'.

Year: 2020

Two additional fellowships (Poetry and Regional) offered this year, due to an anonymous donation.
recipient David Maney for ‘Into the Fog’
recipient Tim Williams for ‘Splint’
recipient Artemis Munoz for the play script ‘Death Wish’
recipient Christine Davey White for her memoir in progress ‘Don’t Get Burned by the Holy Water’
recipient Phạm Thế Định for ‘Duck Summer Memories’,
recipient (Poetry Fellowship) Ruby Hillsmith for ‘Pfizer’s Daughter’
recipient (Regional Fellowship) Janet Hildebrand for ‘The Tide’

Year: 2019

recipient Alex Creece for “Neurodifficult”, a collection of experimental poems on the lived experience of autism
recipient M. J. McArthur
recipient Jessica Obersby
recipient Leah Robertson
recipient Paul Whitby
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