PRH Write It fellowship recipients announced
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Write It Fellowship.
Chosen from a shortlist announced in July, the winners are:
- Dayle Fogarty for “After Dark”
- Naomi Fogarty for “The White Heart”
- Violet Marr for “The Fine Art of Borrowing a Faerie”.
The three recipients will receive mentorship by PRH editors over one year, a $2000 writing grant and the opportunity to participate in a PRH AU Open House Session on the publishing process.
Judges included the PRH Write It team and Bigambul and Wakka Wakka author Melanie Saward, who won the fellowship in 2021 and published her winning manuscript, Love Unleashed (Michael Joseph), in 2024.
Saward said, “I’m so excited to watch these fabulous manuscripts evolve, and see where the Write It Fellowship takes them. These are names to watch.”
Launched in 2018 and awarded biennially, the fellowship “aims to engage with new writing talent who have interesting and diverse stories to tell,” said PRH. “A focus for the 2025 program [was] aspiring First Nations writers.”
The 2023 winners were Victoria Bassett-Wilton, Andrew John, Nadine Story and Emily Tran.
More information is available on the PRH website.
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