Poetica Christi Press Poetry Competition
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History

Poetica Christi Press runs the Poetica Christi Press Annual Poetry Competition from 1 August till 31 October every year on a given topic. The entries are given to the judge who selects a winner and a runner-up, as well as another twenty-three entries to go into an anthology to be published the following year. Some of Poetica Christi's past anthologies have been commended in the FAW awards, and its 2009 bestselling coffee-table book Reflecting on Melbourne, which included colour photography and artwork alongside poetry, was shortlisted for the 2010 Caleb Prize. (http://www.melbournebooks.com.au/awaw2011contents.html#jj )

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2024

winner Wild with Scrub Ellen Shelley , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: A New Day Dawns 2024; (p. 32-33)

Year: 2019

winner David Terelinck for Motherlode
winner Rosalyn Black for True North

Year: 2017

winner Avril Bradley for Flight of the Monarchs

Year: 2016

winner Eternity i "In Sydney as a young man I remember", Will Moody , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2017 2017; (p. 118-119)

Year: 2015

winner The View from a Balcony in Noosa i "She has taken her old bones north", Avril Bradley , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 2016; (p. 76-77)
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