Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the seventeenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 15 July 2020. This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000 – and will be open until midnight 1 October 2020.
Entries must be an original single-authored poem of not more than 70 lines written in English. Poems must not have been previously published or on offer to other prizes or publications for the duration of the Porter Prize. The five shortlisted poems will be published in the January–February 2021 issue and the winner will be announced at a ceremony later that month.
Entry Deadline
1 October 2020
Fellowship Award
First prize: $6,000
Four other shortlisted poets: $1,000
Judges
Lachlan Brown, John Hawke, A. Frances Johnson, and John Kinsella