The author of The Honey Spinner (Murdoch Books), a nonfiction look at honey production around the world, has won the Watermark Fellowship. Grace Pundyk will spend six weeks as a resident at the Camden Haven on the NSW coast, being mentored by the academic, poet and critic Martin Harrison.
The Watermark Fellowship is available to emerging writers of natural history, nature and place. For more information, go to the website of the Watermark Literary Society.
This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker
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