$25,000 Foxtel Fellowship for screenwriters

$25,000 is again up for grabs to a writer in the The Australian Writers’ Foundation Foxtel Fellowship.

The fellowship will again be presented to a screenwriter who has created a body of work that is impressive in its craft, scope and impact. The money will provide a writer with the financial and creative freedom to develop a television project of their choosing.

In 2009 it was awarded to Christopher Lee, a former journalist and Foreign Correspondent, who has written for The Alice, Police Rescue and The Bodysurfer. Lee was also a Script Executive for Love My Way and co-creator of Rush. He has won four Australian Writer’s Guild AWGIE awards.

Lee said, “Every jobbing writer has a project that’s worked on with love and affection with very little chance it’ll see the light of day. The Fellowship is a refreshing chance for this kind of scenario to make its way as a Foxtel project. Working with Foxtel over the past year has been a great experience, I’ve turned a corner and I’ve every hope for the future of the show.”

Nominations close 5pm Friday 21 May via the Australian Writers’ Guild.