The Kit Denton Fellowship is named in memory of Kit Denton, the late father of media personality, Andrew Denton. The $25,000 Fellowship is to reward courage and excellence in performance writing and allow a writer to develop a project over the coming year.
Kit Denton was a respected and admired member of the writing community; a lifetime member of the Australian Writers’ Guild, a scriptwriter, author, poet and lyricist. His most famous work was The Breaker, an international best selling novel about the trial and execution of Breaker Morant.
Ian David was awarded the inaugural Kit Denton Fellowship in 2007. Best known for his ground-breaking reality-based dramas Police State and Police Crop, which won AFI Awards in 1989 and 1999, and the AWGIE Award winning Joh's Jury, Ian’s Fellowship project is a 13-part TV series about the law, and its relationship, if any, to justice.
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