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.