Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets
Now open
Judges: poet Jill Jones and Overland poetry editor Toby Fitch
Established in 2007, with support from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks outstanding poetry by writers who have published no more than one collection of poems under their own name. It remains one of the richest prizes for emerging poets.
In 2016, the major prize is $6000, with a second prize of $2000 and a third prize of $1000. All three winners will be published in the first issue of Overland’s print magazine next year.
Judges will be announced shortly.
Competition closes 11.59 pm, Sunday 20 November 2016.
- Please read the entry guidelines to confirm eligibility.
- You may also be interested to read last year’s judges’ report and winners:
Ella O’keefe’s ‘alkaway’ (first place), Omar Sakr’s, ‘Not so wild’ (second place) and Jakob Ziguras’s ‘Jet lag song nets’ (third place).
About the judges
Jill Jones has published nine full-length books of poetry includingBreaking the Days, The Beautiful Anxiety, which won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, and Ash is Here, So are Stars. Her work is represented in major anthologies including the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. In 2014 she was poet-in-residence at Stockholm University. She is a member of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide.
Toby Fitch is poetry editor of Overland and program director for the Australian Poets’ Festival. He also works as a bookseller at Gleebooks, a teacher of creative writing at the University of Sydney, and runs the Sappho Books poetry night. His latest collection is The Bloomin’ Notions of Other & Beau, out through Vagabond Press.
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