fellows, poetry and a book

The ACT Chief Minister and Minister for The Arts and Heritage, Mr Jon Stanhope MLA, announced the recipients of the 2009 ACT Creative Arts Fellowships, the 2008 ACT Poetry Prize and the 2008 ACT Book of the Year Award on 16 December 2008.

Click on the links below for details of shortlisted nominations and winners of the ACT Poetry Prize, ACT Book of the Year Award and the recipients of the 2009 ACT Creative Arts Fellowships.

• Media Release - 2009 Creative Arts Fellowships announced (Dec 08)
• Media Release - Book of the Year and Poetry Prize winners named (Dec 08)

The 2008 ACT Book of the Year Award (valued at $10,000) has been taken out by       Tony Kevin, for Walking the Camino: a modern pilgrimage to Santiago. 

The 2008 ACT Poetry Prize's Judith Wright Prize (valued at $10,000) for a published collection by an Australian poet has been won by Victorian poet Barry Hill, for       Necessity - Poems 1996-2006.

The 2008 ACT Poetry Prize's Alec Bolton Prize (valued at $5,000) for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian poet has been won by Dr David Musgrave, from NSW, for 'Phantom Limb'.

The ACT Poetry Prize includes prizes for unpublished individual poems. The winning and short-listed individual poems can be downloaded  by clicking on the links below:

The Rosemary Dobson Prize for an unpublished poem by an Australian poet   

• The Rosemary Dobson Prize: winning entry - 'Secessionist', by Andy Jackson
• The Rosemary Dobson Prize: commended entry - 'A Council House in Heaven', by Anna Buck 
• The Rosemary Dobson Prize: commended entry - 'Snake-Man (La Perouse)', by Paul Cliff 
• The Rosemary Dobson Prize: short-listed entry - 'By Accident', by Chris Andrews 
• The Rosemary Dobson Prize: short-listed entry - 'Approaching Firenze', by Jennifer Compton
• The Rosemary Dobson Prize: short-listed entry - 'Field Mouse', by John De Laine
• The Rosemary Dobson Prize: short-listed entry - 'Tawny Frogmouth', by Edward Livings
• The Rosemary Dobson Prize: short-listed entry - 'unlike', by Nathan Shepherdson
• The Rosemary Dobson Prize: short-listed entry - 'Gobray, bunhan bunahan, khen', by Joan Kerr

The David Campbell Prize for an unpublished poem by an ACT poet

• The David Campbell Prize: winning entry - 'A Migrant Writer on a Bus (Thinking of Kundera)', by Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers 
• The David Campbell Prize: commended entry - 'On the Undoing of Buttons', by Elizabeth Lawson
• The David Campbell Prize: commended entry - 'Like words laid down in sleep', by Paul Magee
• The David Campbell Prize: short-listed entry - 'The Spy, Volodya Petrov, leaves his home...', by Lesley Lebkowicz
• The David Campbell Prize: short-listed entry - 'The Wardrobe', by Moya Pacey
• The David Campbell Prize: short-listed entry - 'Dancing in a Paper Hat', by Geoff Page
• The David Campbell Prize: short-listed entry - 'Changdeokgung', by Maggie Shapley