Description

An initiative of the Office of the Vice President and forming a critical part of ACU’s comprehensive Arts and Culture Strategy, the ACU Prize for Poetry receives hundreds of entries each year from across Australia. The prize recognises and supports the importance of poetry in Australian culture and the part it can play in the spiritual life of both those writing it and those reading it.

ACU Prize for Poetry Call for entries
Deadline 6 July 2020
Entry Fee $25 per poem

Theme
The theme for 2020 is Generosity. “If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.” - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Winners will announced at the Awards Night which will be held on the ACU Melbourne Campus on Tuesday 22 September 2020.

First Prize $10,000
Second Prize $5,000
Third Prize $3,000

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