Australian playwright Kendall Feaver has picked up yet another honour for her debut play The Almighty Sometimes, winning the $25,000 Prize for Drama at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

This is just the latest accolade for Feaver’s work, which premiered at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre in February last year and has since played at Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney, Limelight’s Editor Jo Litson describing it as “a knotty, gritty play that takes an unflinching look at mental illness and medication among young people.” The Almighty Sometimes has already received a Judges Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, Best New Play at the 2018 UK Theatre Awards, and earnt Feaver a nomination for Best Writer in the UK’s The Stage Debut Awards. In December, Feaver was named as the recipient of the 2018 Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights, for which she received a $15,300 commission to create a new work.

Kendall Feaver. Photo supplied

The other award-winners at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were Elise Valmorbida, who won the Prize for Fiction for her sixth novel The Madonna of the Mountains, Kate Lilley, who won the Prize for Poetry for...