Val Vallis Award
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Named in honour of the Queensland
poet Val Vallis, the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award offers a $4000 prize for an unpublished poem or suite of poems for Australian emerging poets. The prize is presented as a part of the Queensland Poetry Festival
. Past winners include Anna Krien, Andrew Slattery (twice), Nathan Shepherdson, Ynes Sanz, Sandra Hill, Judy Johnson, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Bronwyn Lea
and Rebecca Edwards.
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
poet Val Vallis, the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award offers a $4000 prize for an unpublished poem or suite of poems for Australian emerging poets. The prize is presented as a part of the Queensland Poetry Festival
Queensland Poetry Festival
Queensland Poetry Festival is one of Australia's premier organisations for all things poetry and spoken word. It exists to support and promote a poetry culture in Queensland and Australia. QPF began, and has continued, as a three-day festival - spoken in one strange word - held over the last...
. Past winners include Anna Krien, Andrew Slattery (twice), Nathan Shepherdson, Ynes Sanz, Sandra Hill, Judy Johnson, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Bronwyn Lea
Bronwyn Lea
Bronwyn Lea is a contemporary Australian poet, academic and editor.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Bronwyn Lea grew up in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, moving to San Diego to study at California State University...
and Rebecca Edwards.