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Newcastle Poetry Prize 2022

$25,000 Prize Pool
donated by the University of Newcastle
Click to purchase the 2022 anthology

We are thrilled to announce the prize winners:

1st prize Claire Albrecht ‘The Anabranch’ – $15,000

2nd prize Christopher Kelen ‘A Letter to the Judges’ – $5,000

3rd prize Leigh Jordan ‘Scrumdingling’ – $1,000

Commended prizes – $250
Jennifer Kornberger ‘Recent Sightings of Tito’
Jakob Ziguras ‘Sanatorium’ 

Harri Jones Prize – $500
Dan Hogan ‘A Life of Prizes’

Local Award – $250
David Bruce Musgrave ‘Five Elegies’

 

Haiku Variations

Asiel

Adan Sanchez

VIC

The Anabranch

Claire

Albrecht

NSW

Abstract Silence [a]

Aleph

Aleph

VIC

Abstract Silence [c]

Aleph

Aleph

VIC

Originary

Anne M

Carson

VIC

Building the Coffin

Coral

Carter

WA

Bait balls

Sara

Crane

NSW

emptiness, nulls, nullius

Syd

Daniels

 

the cost price of a flaming gala

Dave

Drayton

NSW

Intents

Anne

Elvey

VIC

in the interest of clarity

Christine

Fontana

VIC

Rain Lilies

Kerry

Greer

WA

Cooks River Canal — Wangal Country, 1990s

Dimitra

Harvey

NSW

Goodbye Look

John

Hawke

VIC

A Life of Prizes

Dan

Hogan

NSW

Red

Larisa

Jacono

WA

Scrumdingling

Leigh

Jordan

TAS

A Letter to the Judges

Christopher (Kit)

Kelen

NSW

The extravagant rectitude of bees

John

Kinsella

WA

Vertigo

John

Kinsella

WA

Recent sightings of Tito

Jennifer

Kornberger

WA

Anthology

Anthony

Lawrence

QLD

Ready?

Greg

McLaren

NSW

Halls Creek Road

Glenn

McPherson

NSW

Five Elegies

David Bruce

Musgrave

NSW

Requiem for Ronald McDonald

Damen

O’Brien

QLD

Coffins

Verity

Oswin

NSW

Flirting in Norwegian

Jenny

Pollak

NSW

Gimbay Wangal

Nicole

Smede

NSW

Commission Home

Kevin

Smith

QLD

All Week the Early Skies

Mark

Tredinnick

NSW

Princess was here

Tim

Ungaro

NSW

Hard work

Shelley

Wylie

NSW

Sanatorium

Jakob

Ziguras

NSW

NPP 2021 anthology
NPP 2019 book cover for Soft Serve
1st Prize: 
$15,000

2nd Prize: 
$5,000

3rd Prize: 
$1,000

2 x Commended Awards: 
$250

Local Award: 
$250

Harri Jones Prize
for a poet under 36 years 
$500

 

Click to view winners of 2021
Read the history of the prize
Cover of 2020 NPP Newcastle Poetry Prize anthology
NPP Anthology 2018 Buying Online book cover

2022 Judges

Aidan Coleman

Aidan Coleman

Aidan Coleman has published three collections of poetry, most recently Mount Sumptuous (Wakefield Press, 2020). His books have been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Award, the John Bray Poetry Award and the WA Premier’s Book Awards.

          Aidan is currently completing a biography Thin Ice: A Life of John Forbes that will be published by Melbourne University Publishing. He is an Early Career Researcher at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide.

aison whittaker

Alison Whittaker

Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet and essayist. She is Senior Researcher at the Jumbunna Institute. Her second collection, BLAKWORK, received the QLA Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection.
Between 2017-2018, she was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard Law School, where she was named the Dean’s Scholar in Race, Gender and Criminal Law.
           Prior to this, Alison worked at UTS:CAIK, UTS:Law, the Gendered Violence Research Network, and received a blackandwrite! fellowship from the State Library of Queensland.