With a deadline of 1 May, please find further details below:
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The Julia Darling Travel Fellowship 2019
opens for entry
New Writing North and the Julia Darling
Trust are on the look-out for the next winner of the Julia Darling Travel
Fellowship.
Worth £2000, the fellowship will award one
published writer from the North of England a period of travel for writing,
research and inspiration.
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Background to the Julia
Darling Travel Fellowship
The prize celebrates the memory of writer Julia
Darling, whose wide-ranging work included the novels Crocodile Soup (1998,
2015) and The Taxi
Driver’s Daughter (2003); poetry collections Sudden Collapses in Public Places
(2003) and Apology for
Absence (2004); and plays for stage and radio, Eating the Elephant
(1996), Personal
Belongings (2002) and Appointments
(2005).
Founded by Julia’s friends and family in 2015, the
fellowship is managed by New Writing North. It is inspired by Julia’s love
of travel and by the appreciation that she had of writing away from home,
while reflecting her passion for encouraging other writers.
Each year, the fellowship is awarded by a panel made
up of Julia Darling’s writer friends and family. This year’s judges are the
poets Colette Bryce
and Linda France
along with Florrie
Darling, Julia’s daughter, and Josie Darling,
Julia’s sister.
So far the award has supported four writers to
undertake creative journeys to write and research new work. In 2015, Chloe
Daykin travelled to Norway to research her latest children’s
novel, The Boy Who Hit
Play. In 2016, Michelle
Green travelled to Hayling Island to work on a project, Hayling Island: Stories at Sea Level,
which encompassed short stories, spoken word and digital mapping. In 2017, Emma
McGordon won the fellowship to research queer culture in San
Francisco. In 2018, Caroline
Hawkridge returned to Zimbabwe for the first time since she
emigrated in 1966, aged nine.
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What we’re
looking for
The Julia Darling Travel Fellowship is open to
novelists, poets and playwrights. Entrants must be over the age of 18, live and work in the North of
England and have at
least one professionally produced or published work to
their name.
The fellowship can be used to fund travel and
accommodation in the UK and internationally. The fellowship will also
support group applications by writers who would like to undertake joint
residential retreats (something that Julia valued).
The fellowship is for activity that takes place
between July 2019 and June 2020.
To apply writers must write a brief description (up
to 500 words) of how they would like to use the resource to advance their
creative work, a short biography (up to 300 words) and state why now would
be a good time for them to receive support (up to 300 words).
The deadline for
submissions is Wednesday 1 May 2019.
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