Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund round 14 recipients announced

Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of the 14th round of the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund.

The 9 recipients – who will share the $50,595 in funding – are:

• writer Zeynab Gamieldien – to travel to Cape Town, South Africa, to undertake research for her third novel on the experiences of Cape Malay and other non-white people during Apartheid
• writer Ledya Khamou – to travel to Turkey to conduct research for her novel “Food Baby”
• journalist, author and filmmaker Antony Loewenstein – to travel to Israel and Palestine for his new book
• writer Vivian Pham – to travel to the UK to attend a writing residency at the University of Oxford to complete a novel-in-verse.
• author Andrea Rowe – to travel to Cairns, Queensland, to research and participate in reef restoration projects in the Great Barrier Reef for a picture book series
• writer Caitlyn Stone – to travel to South Africa to uncover and trace the history of the South African anti-apartheid literary magazine Staffrider
• playwright, musician and producer Joel Te Teira – to travel to Canada to attend the First People’s Arts Gathering
• writer and poet Elizabeth Walton – to travel to Leeds, London and Dublin to launch her book How to Read a City, Your Place of Last Resort (5 Islands Press)
• author Laura Elizabeth Woollett – to travel to the UK to promote the book Hell Days (Scribe), her first work of nonfiction.

The judges for this round were David Blumenstein, editor and author and illustrator of comics; Carly Findlay, writer, speaker and appearance activist; and Emily Westmoreland, writer, bookseller and literary programmer.

More information about the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund is available on the Writers Victoria website.

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