Thank you for your entries.  You should receive acknowledgment of your entry by late July so feel free to call at any time if you haven’t heard.  The office is open Wed – Fri 10am – 4pm on 49263485, or you can email Katharine on hwcadmin@optusnet.net.au.

Judging commences in early August. The  judges are Jill Jones and Anthony Lawrence (Open Section), and Rob Walker (New Media).  Poets with a Newcastle postcode are automatically entered into the Local Award.  The authors of poems selected for the Judges’ Anthology are notified by the end of September. Winners are announced, and the anthology launched, in Newcastle in late November.

There are three sections:

Open ($11,000 total prize money)

New Media ($2,000)

Local ($500)
Good luck and keep an eye on this page for details of the Prize Night.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 Newcastle Poetry Prize.

OPEN SECTION

Patricia Sykes (winner) – To listen to Patricia read an extract of ‘Cassandra Vegas’, click here.

BR Dionysius (Highly Commended)

Tracy Ryan (Commended)

John Mateer (Commended)

LOCAL AWARD

Andrew Slattery (winner)

NEW MEDIA

Rob and Ben Walker (winners).  Read Rob’s acceptance speech here. Watch BIBLIOPHOBIA by Rob and Ben Walker here

Carolyn McKay and Nick Creecy (Runners-Up)

Download the full list of anthology poets here

To order your copy of The Night Road ($22 +$3 P&H), please click here

The Night Road anthology is also available at:

MacLean’s Booksellers, 69 Beaumont St, Hamilton NSW 2303