A NEW poetry award will be launched this year in honour of North Stradbroke Island’s much-lauded poet, Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
The awards will be the nation’s only open-age Indigenous poetry prize for an unpublished poem.
Run by the Queensland Poetry Festival, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize was named in honour of the poet, the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse.
Oodgeroo's family and Quandamooka Festival organisers approved the naming.
The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is for an unpublished poem and is open to indigenous poets, emerging and established, throughout Australia.
The prize for a single poem (or suite of poems) of 100 lines or less comes with a first prize of $2000 and the highest-placed Quandamooka entry will receive $500 plus 12 months membership and workshop credit from Queensland Writers Centre.
The winning and highly commended entries will also be published online.
