September 2023 Denis Diderot Writer-in-Residence Grant, Château d’Orquevaux

This 40-acre estate in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France hosts a competitive international residency program providing accommodation, studio space and a creative community for artists of all mediums.  Lindsay spent her time at Orquevaux working on her novel in process, The Whisper Sisters.

April 2023 Writer-in-Residence, Bundanon Trust

Bundanon’s competitive residency program is made possible by the generous contribution of Arthur and Yvonne Boyd to the Australian public. Established in 1997, it has grown to become the largest program of its kind in Australia. Lindsay used her time at Bundanon to begin work on a collection of poems and essays on the poetics of solastalgia. Bundanon, with its history of resilience and regeneration after fire and flood, and its architectural design to protect the Boyd collection from future disasters, is an ideal location to begin thinking about how to elegise a vanished home—specific and abstract, individual and global—and how to protect what remains. 

2012 John W. Kluge Research Fellow, Library of Congress 

Residency in support of archival research underpinning The Afterlives of Specimens. The Kluge Centre awards twelve fellowships annually to researchers whose projects align with the vast collections of the world’s largest library.

2017, 2013, 2012, Wood Institute Travel Grants, College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library  

Three-time Wood Fellow at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which holds National Landmark status as the ‘The Birthplace of American Medicine.’ Wood Grants support interdisciplinary research in the medical humanities.  Lindsay was the first writer to receive three grants: two for her nonfiction research on The Afterlives of Specimens and a third for her next poetry collection, The Autopsy Elegies.

2012 Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship  

Funded research at the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley).

2011 Eleanor Wood Travel Grant, University of Sydney

Funded research at the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the US National Museum of Health and Medicine.

2008 Karnaghan, Elgar, and Waldock Research Grant, University of Sydney 

Funded research at the New York Public Library’s Berg Rare Book and Manuscript Collection.

2007 James King of Irrawang Travel Grant, University of Sydney

Funded research at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

2006-2010 University Public Award Stipend and PhD Scholarship, University of Sydney

Tuition waiver and annual salary to support doctoral research.