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2008 OVERLAND JUDITH WRIGHT POETRY PRIZE for NEW and EMERGING POETS
The prize is $3000 with two minor prizes of $500.
- Poets are eligible if they have not yet had a collection of their work commercially published (that is, by a publishing house with commercial distribution).
- A maximum of three unpublished poems is allowed per entrant.
- The poems will be judged by Overland’s poetry editor, Keri Glastonbury.
- The winning poem will be published in the magazine.
Entries, with entry form, should be sent to:
‘Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize’
VU–Footscray Park
PO Box 14428
MELBOURNE VIC 8001
by Friday 7 November 2008.
Winners will be announced in Overland 194, March 2009. Include a stamped, self-addressed envelope if you’d like the results posted to you.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND ENTRY FORM
This prize is made possible by the support of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation.
2007 results
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A POETRY PRIZE FOR NEW AND EMERGING POETS
In 2007, Overland and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation joined forces to create the Overland Magazine Judith Wright Prize for New and Emerging Poets.
We are pleased to announce that in 2008 the prize money has been increased to $3000, with two minor prizes of $500.
Judith Wright, one of Australia’s greatest poets, had a long and fruitful connection with Overland, and her last published poem (which appeared in Overland 154 in 1999), was entitled ‘To Younger Poets’.
Courtesy and © Heide Smith
To Younger Poets
A light comes off the Object, called Relation.
It connects the maker with what is to be made,
and illuminates both. That is all you have to do,
to see it.
But remember, the poem, to be a poem,
isn’t in the end a product of you.
You are the prism the beam strikes,
but it isn’t you.
Poets who keep on saying ‘I’ and ‘me’
are drunk
on Ego.
Simply stay attentive
to the source of the light, and always
keep the prism clean.
JUDITH WRIGHT
© Judith Wright
Overland 154, autumn 1999, p.4 |
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