The Lorna Sage Memorial Fund was established in 2001 at the University of East Anglia to encourage and support work in areas connected to Lorna Sage's particular interests, and work that contributes to the remembrance and furtherance of Lorna Sage's work.
The establishment of the Lorna Sage Memorial Fund was made possible by the support and generosity of many individual donors, and by that of Harper Collins, publishers of Bad Blood (2001), which won the Whitbread Prize for biography and the J.R. Ackerley Prize for autobiography and, posthumously, of Moments of Truth (2001) and Good As Her Word (2003).
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Research Project Awards
The Lorna Sage Memorial Fund supports research projects with awards of up to £2000. Such awards are made at the discretion of the Lorna Sage Memorial Fund committee, which is based in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
In 2010 Nicoletta Demetriou received a Lorna Sage Memorial Fund research project award. Nicoletta Demetriou was born and brought up in Nicosia, Cyprus, not very far from where Lawrence Durrell lived and worked. She was educated in Greece, Austria, and the UK, and now lives in London. As a singer of Cypriot folksong she performed in small villages around Cyprus while doing fieldwork for her research. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and is currently studying for an MA in Life Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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Research project award applicant guidelines:
The academic judges of the Lorna Sage Memorial committee will favour fields close to the work of Lorna Sage, for example research into Life Writing, or Twentieth Century fiction. These awards are made to postgraduate literature students studying in, or in the process of applying to, the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Awards of varying sums may be made at the discretion of the Lorna Sage Memorial committee.
Applicants should submit:
1) a letter of introduction from you that summarises the project and states whether you are a current UEA Literature student or which UEA Literature course you have applied to;
2) a summary CV of no more than two pages;
3) an outline of the proposed project (of no more than 5,000 words), including the main goal of the project;
4) a budget with details of what the funding will be used for;
5) a timescale for completing the project, showing key dates/milestones for the project.
No additional documentation will be considered as part of an application. The deadline for applications is 30th April 2011 and the successful applicant will be informed by the end of June 2011.
Applications should be sent to:
The Lorna Sage Memorial Fund
C/o Natalie Mitchell (Registry 3.15)
Faculty of Arts & Humanities
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ, UK
Lorna Sage Memorial Fund Prizes
Lorna Sage Archive
The University's archive collections are generally available to scholars and to interested members of the public. Arrangements to visit should be made in advance, and written application is advised.
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Lorna Sage Memorial Fund Newsletter: March 2007
We are very pleased to write and give you news of The Lorna Sage Memorial Fund, and of those who have benefited from prizes and bursaries.
This year the five hundred pound Lorna Sage Memorial Prize has been awarded equally to two students for their exceptional dissertations on the MA in Life-writing course. It was decided that because the standard of work achieved by Nathan Francis and Tim Bell, was so high, that they should both be acknowledged, and we wish them many congratulations.
Two awards of two thousand pounds each were also given to two women writers working on life-writing projects. Julie Wheelwright and Kasia Boddy applied to the fund for support whilst they complete their research on very different historical figures. We were very pleased to receive their applications, and felt very strongly that their work was precisely the kind that the fund should be supporting.
We are also very glad to be able to say that Lorna’s own work is still very much in evidence – a new edition of Bad Blood is about to be issued by Harper Collins, with an afterward featuring a transcript of an interview with Lorna. Her Northcote House book on Angela Carter in the Writers and Their Work series is being re-printed, and the Virago edition of Flesh and the Mirror will also be re-issued with a new introduction.
After Lorna’s Memorial, we had strong hopes that Angela Carter’s books and papers might come to UEA for archiving and research purposes, and it is disappointing now to have to report that they will not come to UEA. We are glad to say however, that they will not go abroad, having been acquired by the British Library.
Thank you, as ever, for your generosity. The Lorna Sage Memorial Fund gives practical help to students and researchers, and is only able to do so because of your continued support.
