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Literary Fund
In Australia:
A sub-fund has been established with the Australian Communities Foundation and aims to commemorate Hazel’s life and her writing legacy through activities that support biography and writing in general. The sub-fund will:
- Support an annual lecture to be given in Hazel’s name by a notable biographer or writer. This will be held in Australia each March at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne and at the Adelaide Writers Festival.
- Assist a writer with a Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship to encourage a writing proposal by funding travel and research. The focus will be on, but not restricted to, biography.
The inaugural winner of the 2012 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship is Mary Hoban who is undertaking a biography of Julia Sorell. She speaks about her project with Jim Davidson and Della Rowley on Books and Arts Daily with Michael Cathcart on March 15th 2012.
Click here for Podcast
Article: Sydney Morning Herald:
Sisterly love continues Rowley's legacy
How to donate
You can make a tax deductible donation online or by cheque. Credit card donations can be made online at: http://www.communityfoundation.org.au/donate-hazel-rowley
Start to enter the fund name (Hazel Rowley Literary Fund) and just follow the prompts. A tax deductible receipt will be issued to your email address.
Make your cheque payable to “Australian Communities Foundation” and state that it is for the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund (click here for form) and provide your name and address so that a tax deductible receipt can be issued. Please send cheques to: PO Box 1011, Collingwood, 3066.
In the United States:
- The Biographers International Organisation (BIO) has honoured Hazel with a scholarship fund in her name which will help with attendance at their annual conference.
"BIO is the first-ever international organisation to represent the everyday interests of practicing biographers: those who’ve already published the stories of real lives, and those working on biographies – in every medium, from print to film." http://www.biographersinternational.org
- The Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture was held in New York on 9th February 2012 at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter Collage. Jodi Kantor, biographer of The Obamas and New York Times correspondent, and Kati Marton, author of seven books including Hidden Power - Presidential Marriages that Shaped our History held a conversation about the Obamas for an audience of about 500.
Click here for Hazel’s friend William vanden Heuval's remarks about Hazel.
At the dinner afterwards, Odile Hellier, Hazel’s close French friend and owner of the Village Voice bookshop in Paris gave these remarks. Click Here
How to donate:
To donate to these activities, please send a check made out to the American Australian Association (Attn: Lily Devcic and noting that it is to be for the Hazel Rowley fund) to 50 Broadway/ Suite 2003, New York NY 10004. This fund has 501 (C) 3 tax exempt status and you will be sent a receipt.
Other news:
- The National Library of Australia has archived Hazel’s website in perpetuity for future researchers. Even when technology changes this material will be transferred to the new technology. Hence we are making sure the National Library has all of Hazel’s material (please help in sending any audio recordings you have of Hazel’s presentations). The current material can be found on http://pandora.nla.gov.au/index.html
Keeping in touch
Contact: dellarowley@bigpond.com
Della Rowley (Hazel’s sister)
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