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| Writers and readers sharing the literature of nature and place Next Muster - 17-20 June 2011 |
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2010 Mick Dark Watermark Fellow
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The Mick Dark Watermark Fellowship for emerging nature and environmental writers has been awarded to Western Australian writer and adventurer, Robn Mundy. Mundy’s first novel, The Nature of Ice, was published in 2009. She says of her novel in progress: ‘while this is a work of fiction, the emphasis on place is paramount… I see it as being as complex and animate a character as any human figure…’ She will spend three weeks in residence in the Camden Haven on the mid north coast of New South Wales working with the renowned poet, publisher and editor Ian Templeman as Mentor. Following several months of writing, she will have three writing weeks in residence at Varuna in the Blue Mountains with Creative Director, Peter Bishop. The Watermark Literary Society Inc. and Varuna the Writers’ House have combined to offer this new biennial Fellowship to replace those offered separately in previous years. |
The Watermark Fellowship for Emerging Writers of Nature and Place was established in 2003 in honour of Eric Rolls who was the inspiration for the Society and remains Perpetual Patron. Concurrently, Varuna the Writers’ House offered the Mick Dark Fellowship for Environmental Writers named for Mick Dark, son of Eleanor Dark and Dr Eric Dark, who made a gift of their Blue Mountains family home, Varuna, to Australian literature in memory of his parents.
The new Fellowship honours Mick Dark who is Life President of the Varuna Board; Eric Rolls’s name is perpetuated through the Eric Rolls Prize for Natural History Writing offered by the Society.
CONTACTS: Elaine van Kempen, President, Watermark Literary Society elaine@vankempen.id.au, 02 65596888 and Tessa Hockly, Administrator, Varuna the Writers’ House, tessa@varuna.com.au 02 4782 5674.
May 23rd 2010
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