Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
The Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, named in honour of a distinguished Queensland poet, is a literary award for an unpublished poetry manuscript by a Queensland author. The prize was established in 2003 and currently comes with a total prize money of $3000 and a publication contract with the University of Queensland Press.[1]
Award winners
- 2014
- Krissy Kneen, Eating My Grandmother
- 2013
- David Stavanger, The Special
- 2102
- Rachel Briggs, Free Logic
- 2011
- Nick Powell
- 2010
- Vlanes (Vladislav Nekliaev), Another Babylon
- 2009
- Rosanna Licari, An Absence of Saints
- 2008
- Felicity Plunkett, Vanishing Point[2]
- 2007
- Sarah Holland-Batt, Aria[3]
- 2006
- Angela Gardner, Parts of Speech[4]
- 2005
- Nathan Shepherdson, Sweeping the Light Back Into The Mirror[5]
- 2004
- Jaya Savige, latecomers[6]
- 2003
- Lidija Cvetkovic, War is Not the Season for Figs [7]