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Finding Beauty Poetry Prize

Finding Beauty Poetry Prize 2025

Entries due: Monday 19 May 2025

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MARION is honoured to launch the inaugural Finding Beauty Poetry Prize for emerging poets. This very special prize has been established in memory of Roger Green, an environmental advocate, writer and editor, lover of poetry, and thinker. Roger believed that beauty had the power to alleviate fear and hardship, and to provide hope and inspiration.

This award recognises and rewards emerging poets from the Kamberri (Canberra) region and its surrounds.

For this inaugural prize, Roger’s family has chosen the theme Finding Beauty – in Nature.

Key Dates

  • Monday 22 March – Call for entries opens

  • Monday 19 May – Entries close at 4PM

  • Friday 20 June – Shortlist announced

  • Thursday 3 July – ACT Literary Awards Night
    The Shine Dome ANU, Acton

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