Peter Blazey Fellowship (2004-)
Subcategory of Australian Centre Literary Awards
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History

The Peter Blazey Fellowship was established to honour the memory of Peter Blazey, a journalist, author and gay rights activist. 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.

Source: http://australian-centre.unimelb.edu.au/prizes/blazey Sighted: 15/11/2013.

Notes

  • Inagurated in 2004, the Peter Blazey 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.' The award provides a writer-in-residency at the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne and is awarded 'on the basis of literary merit'.

    (Source: The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne website, http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_1173.html

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Works About this Award

Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 September 2006; (p. 31)
A column canvassing current literary news including a brief report on independent publisher, Finlay Lloyd, and the announcement of Judith Pugh as the winner of the 2007 Peter Blazey Fellowship.
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