Writing
Sam Franzway
Sam Franzway was the 2005 recipient of the Independent Arts Foundation Scholarship. The Scholarship allowed Sam to complete his novel The Thirteenth Year.
Sam has studied creative writing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and graduated with a MA in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide in 2003. Sam will use this scholarship to develop his manuscript into a publishable novel entitled The Thirteenth Year, which follows the entwined stories of a group of students from a fictional high school as they go through the sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll of year twelve. They deal with sexuality, trust, friendship, the expectations of peers and parents and what it means to become an adult in today’s society.
Sam says, “as an emerging writer it would be extremely valuable to be able to go to a publisher with a manuscript that has already been given the vote of confidence of the Independent Arts Foundation Scholarship”.
Sam recently had his short story Grab for Glory published in Cracker!, a collection of Christmas stories by students of the University of Adelaide. In 2002 he won the Inaugural Borders/On Dit Short Story competition and was a regular contributor and editor of On Dit, the weekly student newspaper of the University of Adelaide. In 1998 he was invited to read his short story Jade on 5AD’s Writers and Writing program and in 1997 Sam was one of only two interstate entrants published in Inscape, a journal for young writers, launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
