There\u2019s nothing more festive than its end-of-year Christmas party for Queensland Writers Centre to announce the Arts Queensland Poetry Awards and Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Indigenous Poetry.<\/p>\n
The Arts Queensland Poetry Awards and Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Indigenous Poetry were presented, along with the annual Johnno Award, at the State Library of Queensland recently during the Queensland Writers Centre\u2019s Christmas celebrations.<\/p>\n
Eva Phillips\u2019\u00a0Borrow-or-rob<\/em>\u00a0was named winner of the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an unpublished manuscript, with judges Jarad Bruinstroop and Eileen Chong calling the collection \u201can outstanding work that examines themes of place, appropriation and extraction through cross-disciplinary considerations of Margaret Preston\u2019s printmaking and contemporaneous writing\u201d.<\/p>\n Phillips will now work with prize partner University of Queensland Press (UQP) to develop the manuscript for publication. Sean West\u2019s collection\u00a0Only Guesswork<\/em> was named runner-up.<\/p>\n Damen O\u2019Brien won the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award for an unpublished poem for\u00a0The Dam Dries<\/em>, praised by judges Sarah Yeung and Yvette Holt as \u201ca moving work that captures a moment filled with life yet hovering on the precipice of loss \u2026\u201d and \u201cunerringly penetrative to the human psyche\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The Dam Dries<\/em>\u00a0will be published in literary magazine\u00a0Westerly<\/em>. Runner-up was Nikki McCahon for the poem\u00a0I found an ant in my honey jar.<\/em><\/p>\n Judges of the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Indigenous Poetry, Julie Janson and Jeanine Leane, named Nathan \u201cmudyi\u201d Sentance\u2019s\u00a0Country centred metaphors\/rockets<\/em>\u00a0as winner, describing the work as \u201ca clever poem with some beautiful metaphors and evocative descriptors. A highly original piece \u2026 the humour and exploration of covert racism underpins the power\u201d. The poem will be published in\u00a0Meanjin<\/em>\u2019s 83.4 Summer edition in December. Runner-up was Vika Mana for\u00a0Returning Home Again<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Arts Queensland XYZ Prize for Spoken Word included development and mentorship opportunities with Australia Poetry Slam Champion Huda the Goddess. WA-based poet Vuma Phiri was named winner for\u00a0An Apology To Myself\u00a0<\/em>and Kristal Brown as runner-up for\u00a0Kissaway (Kanaka\u2019s Song).<\/em>\u00a0Both will be published online by QWC.<\/p>\n This year for the first time QWC administered the suite of poetry awards, supported by Arts Queensland, increasing prize monies and two new publication partners (Meanjin<\/em>\u00a0for the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize;\u00a0Westerly<\/em>\u00a0for the Val Vallis Award), with UQP continuing its longstanding relationship with the Shapcott Prize.<\/p>\n QWC acknowledged the Roderick Centre of Australian Literature at James Cook University in Townsville for its support of the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Indigenous Poetry, along with the many leading international and Australian poets consulted in the process of hosting the awards and this year\u2019s inaugural, flagship QPoetry! event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s nothing more festive than its end-of-year Christmas party for Queensland Writers Centre to announce the Arts Queensland Poetry Awards and Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Indigenous Poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,5],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-books","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}