Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize (2016-)
or The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize
Subcategory of Queensland Poetry Festival Awards
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History

Presented by the Queensland Poetry Festival, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is and open-age Indigenous poetry prize for an unpublished poem. The prize is open to all Indigenous poets, emerging and established, throughout Australia.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2024

winner Nathan Sentance for 'Country centred metaphors/rockets'.

Year: 2023

winner Adam Brannigan for 'The Weather Spirit (Version 1.2)'.

Year: 2022

winner Cheryl Leavy for 'Ngali (we two)'.

Year: 2021

winner Dominic Guerrera for 'Unwelcome to Country'.

Year: 2020

winner Choice Cuts i "my blood is worth bottling, so I’m told as though", Mykaela Saunders , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , November 2021; Overland , Summer no. 245 2022; (p. 88-90) Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 28)
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