History
Conducted by Whitmore Press the annual manuscript prize was for a collection of work , the winner being published in the following year. The prize has been on hold since 2016. (https://whitmorepress.com/manuscript-prize/)
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2014
joint winner y
Hoard
Geelong
:
Whitmore Press
,
2015
8884237
2015
selected work
poetry
'he poems in Tracy Ryan's latest collection move on 'feet of drought and tinder' from Australia to the bogs of Ireland, drawing on many eras, to test the edges of both a cutover myth and a real landscape in need of recognition and preservation. What emerges from this poetic bogland is a hoard, an archive of histories and wishes, bright gold 'glimpses yielding up fragments then closing over'.' (Publication summary)
joint winner y
Breaking the Days
Geelong
:
Whitmore Press
,
2015
8884276
2015
selected work
poetry
'Breaking the Days explores a daily world of uneasy things - machine presences, breakages, scraps and dreams - where logic and the household gods are disturbed. Its powerful, stripped-down lyricism is full of questions, disquiet and curious sightings that release days from their common assumptions and offers a bracing slant on this unsettling world.' (Publication summary)
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Year: 2013
winner y
The Thin Bridge
Geelong
:
Whitmore Press
,
2014
8026353
2014
selected work
poetry
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Year: 2012
winner y
Listening to the Mopokes Go
Geelong
:
Whitmore Press
,
2013
6844476
2013
selected work
poetry
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Year: 2011
joint winner y
Snowline
Geelong
:
Whitmore Press
,
2012
Z1863886
2012
selected work
poetry
joint winner y
Bowra
Geelong
:
Whitmore Press
,
2013
Z1930253
2013
selected work
poetry
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Year: 2010
winner y
Chemistry
Newtown
:
Whitmore Press
,
2011
Z1759154
2011
selected work
poetry
