Archival CV - Richard James Allen
WRITING AWARDS AND GRANTS
To: Richard James Allen,
(or as noted)
2007 The Kamikaze Mind book, mobile phone project and website,
Preselection Finalist (in the top ten) for the inaugural Best Multi-Modal Production
at the 2007 Enhance TV Atom Awards
2006 The Kamikaze Mind website, Winner, The Point of Life Gold Award of Excellence.
2006 The Kamikaze Mind book, Longlisted from 580 entries
for the Australian Publishers Association’s 2007 Book Design Awards
2006 The Kamikaze Mind, Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts,
Publishing Subsidy to Brandl & Schlesinger
2005 Out Of The Labyrinth Of The Mind: Manifesting A Spiritual Art Beyond Dualism,
Winner, The Chancellor’s Award for the most outstanding PhD thesis
from across all departments of the University of Technology, Sydney
2004 The Happiness Test, Shortlisted, Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, Sydney
2001 More Lies, Shortlisted, Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting, Sydney
2000 Thursday’s Fictions, Shortlisted, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry,
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
1999 Thursday’s Fictions, Literature Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts,
Publishing Subsidy to Five Islands Press
1999 Australian Poetry Festival (of which Richard James Allen was Festival Director)
funded by the Literature Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts
and Broadway Shopping Centre,
in addition to ongoing funding for the Poets Union Inc. (of which Richard was Artistic Director)
from the NSW Ministry for the Arts, Leichhardt Council, and others
1999 Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts,
Literature Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts,
Publishing Subsidy to Currency Press
1998 Australian Postgraduate Award with Stipend, University of Technology, Sydney
1995 Booranga Writers Fellowship from Wagga Wagga Writers Writers
1993 Hope for a man named Jimmie & Grand Illusion Joe,
Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts,
Publishing Subsidy to Five Islands Press
1993 Australian War Memorial Research Grant
1990 Poets & Writers, New York City
1986 The Way Out At Last & Other Poems,
Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts,
Publishing Subsidy to Hale & Iremonger Pty Ltd
1985 PEN American Center Writer’s Assistance Grant, New York City
1985 New Writer’s Assistance Grant, Literature Board, Australia Council for the Arts
1984 General Writing Grant, Literature Board, Australia Council for the Arts
1982-1983 Neos: Young Writers Magazine (of which Richard James Allen was Co-Editor)
published with the assistance of Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts
Publishing Subsidies
1982 The Frederick May Memorial Award for Best Italian Essay,
The University of Sydney
1981 Isabel M. King Memorial Prize for Top of the Year, History III Honours,
The University of Sydney
1981 Helen Bennett Memorial Prize for Best Essay in History III Honours,
The University of Sydney
1981 University Union Literary Prize, The University of Sydney
1980 Winner (Under 21 Section), English Teachers Association of NSW
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