º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
2024 Vice Chancellor's International Poetry Prize
The 2024 prize is open for entry until 14 July 2024, 11:59pm GMT.
The prize is now closed for entries.
About the Prize
The º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize has been offered since 2014. On behalf of the University, this is administered by the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research in the .
The prize celebrates the enduring significance of poetry to cultures everywhere in the world, and its ongoing and often seminal importance to world literatures. It marks the º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ's commitment to creativity and imagination in all that it does, and builds on the work of the International Poetry Studies Institute in identifying poetry as a highly resilient and sophisticated human activity. It also builds on the activities of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, which conducts wide-ranging research into human creativity and culture.
The 2024 prize winners will be announced by November 2024 and the prize winners and short-list will be notified prior to that.
This year's judges will be poets Michelle Borzi and James Cherry.
Important details are:
- The overall winner will receive AUD$15,000
- The international winner (from an economically developing nation) will receive AUD$5,000
- The runner-up (second-placed poem) will receive AUD$5,000
- Four additional poems will be short-listed
- An online prize anthology of up to 60 longlisted poems will be published
Entry fees
- Entrants may submit up to six poems, and will pay a separate fee for each poem.
- First Entry: $AUD25 or $15 concession
- Additional Entry (up to five additional entries): $AUD20 or $10 concession
- See How to Enter for details and Early Bird fee options
Outline of prize rules and conditions
- All poems entered for the prize will be single poems that have a maximum length of 60 lines
- All entries will be in English
- No simultaneous submissions will be allowed
- Entries must be unpublished and original works of the author
- Translations will not be eligible unless they are English translations from another language produced by the original author
- Judges
- Full Conditions of Entry
Please direct all enquiries to: vcpoetryprize@canberra.edu.au
Do not call the University, unfortunately we cannot address queries over the phone.