Joyce Parkes Women Writers Prize
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

'The prize is sponsored by The Australian Irish Heritage Association and honours Joyce Parkes, a poet living in WA. The prize aims to promote and encourage women writers in Australia.' (https://writingquarter.com.au/joyce-parkes-womens-writers-prize/)

Notes

  • The Joyce Parkes Writers Prize is an annual award to encourage women writers to write about Irish or Irish-Australian matters and was made possible by the generosity of the poet, Joyce Parkes.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2018

winner Freya Cox for Blackbird Fly

Year: 2017

winner Gina Dawson for The Centre Cannot Hold

Year: 2016

Year: 2009

Year: 2007

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