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Carolyn Wadley Dowley Carolyn Wadley Dowley i(A123721 works by)
Born: Established: 1971 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Carolyn Wadley Dowley has a Master of Philosophy in Australian Studies and was the recipient of the New South Wales Premier's Community and Regional History Prize in 2001 for Through Silent Country: her speaking tour for the book took her to Perth Writers' Festival in 2001; the European Conference on Australian Studies in Klagenfurt, Austria (1-4 October 2000); the WA Oral History Conference in 2000 (where she delivered a paper on 'Writing / Re-writing the Records'); books clubs and community reconciliation groups; and national, regional, and local radio.

Dowley was an adjunct research fellow at Curtin University from 2001 to 2002. She has also worked as an architect. She was featured in Carol Eikelberry and Carrie Pinsky's The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People (New York: Ten Speed Press, 2015).

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 shortlisted Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for a biography of Sadie Canning, a Wongutha woman, a member of the Stolen Generations and Western Australia’s first Aboriginal nurse
2023 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Western Australian Writer's Fellowship
2023 highly commended Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for a biography of Sadie Canning, a Wongutha woman, member of the Stolen Generations and Western Australia’s first Aboriginal nurse

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Through Silent Country Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2000 Z1589081 2000 single work non-fiction
2022 shortlisted Margaret Medcalf Award
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