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Dorothy Porter Award for Poetry
or
Dorothy Porter Prize
Subcategory of
Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards
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History
Also called the Dorothy Porter Award for Emerging Poets.
Notes
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The Dorothy Porter Prize for Poetry, inaugurated in 2009, is an annual prize paying tribute to 'the much-loved Australian poet [Dorothy Porter] and her legacy of work'. A cash prize, initially of $1000, will be presented for the best poem published in Meanjin in each calendar year.
Source: Meanjin website, http://www.meanjin.com.au/
Sighted: 14/07/2009
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2020
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Year: 2017
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Year: 2015
winner Slingshot i "across famed asphalt i", 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antithesis , no. 25 2015; (p. 2-3) Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 2016; (p. 164-165) -
Year: 2013
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Year: 2012
winner An Overcast Day in Another Part of the World i "Maybe it’s little more than physics,", 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 71 no. 4 2012; (p. 165-167.)
Works About this Award
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pigeon 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: Sotto , August 2011;
