
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 |


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


2022 Judges

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.

Alison Whittaker
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.