Imago Fellowship

2025
Applications open
Annual

Applications close on Friday, 12 July 2024 5:00 pm AEST.

$50,000 - For creative writing – fiction or non-fiction, across any genre – utilising the collections of the State Library of NSW.

About the Fellowship

For research that engages deeply with the rich collections at the Library to produce a work of fiction or non-fiction.

Imago is Latin for ‘image’ and is used to refer to the last stage of an insect’s metamorphosis; imago (plural imagines), as the final step of growth and development is when insects gain their wings.

The Imago Fellowship, dedicated to supporting emerging creative writers, was established in 2024 with a generous endowment from an anonymous benefactor. An emerging writer is a writer who is yet to publish a full-length work, or who has had a debut full-length work published in the last five years (at the time of application). 

Unidentified woman writing

Guidelines and application

Please read the Guidelines carefully prior to applying.

Download an application form for the Imago Fellowship

For further information please refer to the Fellowship FAQs section or contact:

Scholarship

Phone: 02 9273 1765

Email: scholarship@sl.nsw.gov.au

Last updated:  14 May 2024

Fellowship Information

Annual

$50,000 - For research that engages deeply with the rich collections at the Library to produce a work of fiction or non-fiction.

For further information please contact Scholarship:

Phone: 02 9273 1765

Email: scholarship@sl.nsw.gov.au