The Abbie Clancy Award, named after Abigail Mary Clancy (1898-1984), one of the founders of the Society of Women Writers and a prominent early 20th-century journalist, is sponsored by the Society of Women Writers NSW. The bursary is open to female honours and post-graduate students attending universities in New South Wales, who submit an abstract of an unpublished research paper on the published or unpublished work(s) of fiction or non-fiction of an Australian woman writer or journalist.
N.B. The award appears not to be given in 2014 or 2019.
Source: Society of Women Writers NSW.
