Tu awarded 2025 BR Whiting Studio Residency
Tu’s debut novel, A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing (A&U), was named literary fiction book of the year at the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards, and the author was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist the same year. A screen adaptation of the novel received Screen Australia funding last year. Tu’s second novel The Honeyeater, was published in July this year.
Said Tu: ‘This residency is truly an extraordinary gift—to be given space and time and resources to write in one of the world’s most spectacular cities. I am so grateful and excited to be given this opportunity, and am confident this next novel will be hugely enriched by my experiences there.’
Said A&U publishing director Cate Paterson: ‘When Jessie talked to me about the new novel she was working on, I was so impressed by her natural, ambitious inclination to expand the focus and scope of her writing. She had me at “three women filmmakers” … but to now envisage her soaking up the on-the-spot research during her residency in Rome makes me even more excited about the richness and authenticity that will infuse this new novel.’
The BR Whiting Studio Residency runs for six months and includes $25,000 support.
Picture credit: Sarah Wilson, A&U.
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