University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize.
- The winning poem is Trying on My Father’s Clothes, by Anthony Lawrence.
- The international winner is Global South, by Jeannie Wallace McKeown from South Africa.
- The runner-up is Remembering the Rain, by Roxanne Bodsworth.
The anthology of the 2024 prize, containing the winning poems and all those longlisted and shortlisted, will shortly be available on the Centre for Creative & Cultural Research website. Congratulations to all winners.
The judges for this year’s prize, Dr Michelle Borzi and James E Cherry, read carefully through the 900+ poems received, and produced a longlist of 56 poems and a shortlist set out below. We were impressed by the quality and diversity of voices represented.
About the Prize
The University of Canberra 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 University of Canberra'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.
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- Entries must be unpublished and original works of the author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.