Fellowships
The State Library's fellowships program is one of the most substantial in Australia. Each year, the Library offers Creative Fellowships to encourage the original and imaginative use or development of the Library's collections for new work.
The Library also provides a number of specialist fellowships to support and recognise the importance of scholarly endeavour in areas ranging from children's literature and social history to the visual arts, theatre, 19th-century Victoria, Indigenous cultural research and digital technology.
Three new fellowships are being offered in 2019: the Photography Fellowship, the Regional Fellowship and the Tate Adams Memorial Residency.
The fellowships are funded by the State Library Victoria Foundation and other program partners, and are awarded annually on the advice of independent expert panels.
2019 fellowship program
Applications for the 2019 fellowships program closed on Sunday 28 April 2019.
The following fellowships will be awarded at a ceremony later this year:
- Amor Residency at Baldessin Press & Studio
- Children's Literature Fellowship
- Creative Fellowships
- Digital Fellowship
- Emerging Writer's Fellowship
- Georges Mora Fellowship
- Indigenous Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Research Fellowship
- La Trobe Society Fellowship
- Photography Fellowship
- Redmond Barry Fellowship
- Regional Fellowship
- Russell Beedles Performing Arts Fellowship
- Tate Adams Memorial Residency
The following fellowships are not being offered in 2019:
- Berry Family Fellowship
- Centenary of WWI Fellowship (closed 2017)
- John Emmerson Research Fellowship
- Ukrainian Studies Foundation in Australia Fellowship
More information
- Read the media release.
- Visit our Library Fellows gallery to see examples of the wonderful work undertaken by past fellows and the innovative ways they have presented their research.
