The Booranga Prize for Poetry (2005-)
Subcategory of The Booranga Prize
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History

'The Booranga Prizes, one for fiction and one for poetry, are awarded each year for the best short story and poem in the current issue of fourW, the annual anthology of new writing and graphics published by fourW press, out of Charles Sturt University's Booranga Writers' Centre. The competition judges are comprised of the fourW editor and the selection panel. The School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU funds the prizes, worth $250 each. '
 

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2023

winner Linda Albertson for 'Some Woman'

Year: 2022

winner Lachlan Brown for 'Underline for Effect'.

Year: 2021

winner Damen O'Brien for 'How to Hold a Knife'.

Year: 2020

winner Fake Billy Collins Poem i "This acoustic bus goes electric", Tug Dumbly , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW (New Writing) , no. 31 2020; (p. 50-52)

Year: 2019

winner Equal Rights for Gay Whales i "The navy-striped hatbands, the silly little ties", Hugh Crago , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW New Writing , no. 30 2019; (p. 43-45)
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