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Val Vallis Award Open for Entries
Arts Queensland has opened nominations for two poetry awards for unpublished work. Named after Queensland poet and former UQ lecturerVal Vallis, (pictured, at left) the Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry will be awarded for a poem, or suite of poems, ... |
07/05/2013 8:15:33 AM |
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Blake Prize for Poetry - Submissions Open
The 2013 Blake Poetry Prize is now accepting entries. Presented by the NSW Writers’ Centre and the Blake Society, the $5,000 Prize is named for visionary artist and poet William Blake. The prize was established to give Australian poets new ... |
22/04/2013 8:07:23 AM |
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Submissions Open for Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize
TheBruce Dawe National Poetry Prizeis now accepting submissions. Poets have until 30 June to enter for the award, worth $2,000 this year, up from last year's $1,500.Dawe (pictured at left) is one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary poets. He said ... |
16/04/2013 11:39:20 AM |
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A Week of Shortlists
While no longlisted Australian author made theInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary Awardshortlist, announced this week, Australians are in contention for other international prizes. Five first-time Australian novelists have beenshortlistedfor this ... |
11/04/2013 10:25:08 AM |
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New Literature Prize
The Australian Catholic University has created a new literature prize to continue the Catholic Church's tradition as a patron of the arts. In 2013 the Prize will be awarded to the entrant whose poem best conveys the theme of 'everyday immanence'. The ... |
10/04/2013 7:58:40 AM |
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Newcastle Poetry Prize - Submissions Open
TheNewcastle Poetry Prizeis open for submissions until 7 June. Coordinated by theHunter Writers Centre, the prize is one of Australia's oldest and richest literary prizes, celebrating its 32nd year in 2013. Mark Tredinnick has won the prize twice, in 2007 ... |
09/04/2013 7:58:01 AM |
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John Knight Memorial Poetry Prize
An unpublished poet will have the chance to get into print, courtesy of the newly established John Knight Memorial Poetry Manuscript Prize. The prize, for a poetry manuscript, honours the memory of John Knight, a former Queensland poet, editor and ... |
08/04/2013 8:32:13 AM |
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Dangerously Poetic 2013 Byron Bay Writers' Festival Poetry Prize
'Ordinary miracles' is the theme for a new national poetry prize. Dangerously Poetic Press and the Byron Bay Writers' Festival are co-sponsoring the new prize, which will be awarded to the winning poet by prize judge Cate Kennedy at the Festival on 3 ... |
12/03/2013 9:47:21 AM |
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Shortlist for Peter Porter Poetry Prize announced
Nathan Curnow, Dan Disney, Amanda Johnson, John Kinsella, and John A. Scott are the five poets whose work has been shortlisted for this year'sPeter Porter Poetry Prize. The Prize isawarded annually by Australian Book Review, in honour of Porter (pictured, ... |
06/03/2013 9:33:11 AM |
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New Publisher Launches
A book of Australian love poems will be the first title from publisherInkerman & Blunt, 'a new Australian press dedicated to publishing books of originality, intelligence and beauty: poetry and stories - both real and imagined - that open your mind ... |
04/03/2013 8:50:57 AM |
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Nine in Line for Overland's Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Nine poems have been shortlisted for Overland's 2013Judith Wright Poetry Prize. The winner will be selected from the more than 400 entries submitted. Winning poems for the prize, worth $9,000, will be announced on Friday, 15 March. Dusk Dundler, Luke ... |
19/02/2013 9:12:45 AM |
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New Prize for an Emerging Poet
A two-week stay in a castle in Ireland is just one of the goodies the winner of the inaugural Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman Poetry Prize will receive. A two-week writing residency at Manning Clark House in Canberra and $1,000 in cash will round out the ... |
05/02/2013 8:57:47 AM |
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Charles Harpur Bicentennial
Charles Harpur 'was not literally our first native-born non-Aboriginal poet but he was certainly our first very significant one', says Professor Paul Eggert, calling the two-hundredth anniversary of Harpur's birth on 23 January, 1813 'Australia's first ... |
23/01/2013 8:55:41 AM |
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Deadline Approaching for Josephine Ulrick Prizes
Poets and short story writers have until 31 January to enter for the Josephine Ulrick Prizes. Two prizes are on offer - a short story prize fora story of between 1,000-3,000 words, and a poetry prize for a poem or suite of poems up to 200 lines. First ... |
17/01/2013 8:51:37 AM |
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Honouring our Poetic Legacy?
Christopher Bantick questions how much Australians value their poets in anopinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald. Lamenting the lack of a Westminster Abbey-style Poets' Corner in Australia, Bantick nevertheless rejects the notion that popular writers ... |
15/01/2013 9:48:24 AM |
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Grand Slam
CJ Bowerbird is the winner of this year'sAustralian Poetry Slam, achieving two perfect scores during the first and second rounds. Bowerbird won the chance to tour Beijing, Chengdu and Souzhou in China with Bookworm International Literary Festival, ... |
05/12/2012 9:06:29 AM |
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Blake Prize Win for WA’s Graham Kershaw
The judges for this year’s Blake Poetry Prize — Martin Langford, Peter Minter and Amelia Walker — have awarded first place to Graham Kershaw’s three-part sequence 'Altar Rock'. In their comments, the judges observed that ... |
21/11/2012 12:48:14 PM |
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'Australian Poetry since 1788' Now an e-Book
With around 1,000 poems and more than 1,000 pages, Australian Poetry since 1788 is a weighty tome. Now, thanks in part to support from the Australia Council’s Literature Board, this impressive volume will soon be available as an e-book. First ... |
19/11/2012 1:07:58 PM |
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Following in the Footsteps of Judith Wright?
Poets have three days left to submit entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets. The competition, supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, is now open. The prize was established in 2007 to foster poetry by writers ... |
12/11/2012 10:40:43 AM |
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Come Poets and Essayists
Poets are welcome to apply now for theAustralian Book Review'sPoetry Prize. This is theninth annual ABR Poetry Prize, which is named after thelate Australian poet,Peter Porter(pictured, at left). The first prize winner will take home $4,000 and his or her ... |
04/10/2012 7:57:38 AM |