This blog collects the journalism of John Stapleton from the 1970s to the present day.
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Wednesday 31 May 1995
Monday 15 May 1995
Application for Australia Council Grant for book NMy Name is Blah Blah: Essays in Australian Journalism, 15 May, 1995.
I made quite a number of applications to the Australia Council for Writer's Grants over the years.
None were successful.
This one, too, was unsuccessful.
And this time around I was even friends with the head of the Literature Board, who encouraged me to make this application.
There was a certain sneering contempt in the Australia Council for those who actually made a living out of writing in what were considered lower forms of literary endeavour, such as journalism.
None were successful.
This one, too, was unsuccessful.
And this time around I was even friends with the head of the Literature Board, who encouraged me to make this application.
There was a certain sneering contempt in the Australia Council for those who actually made a living out of writing in what were considered lower forms of literary endeavour, such as journalism.