Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize 2022 winners announced

Overland has announced the winners of the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize.

Abbra Kotlarczyk has won the $6000 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. Her winning work, ‘Viriditas/Little Big Scrub Poem’, is ‘an elegy and polemic in double line sets of irregular stanzas’ that ‘draws parallels between the treatment of queer and ecological entities, and is set against the backdrop of the Big Scrub region of Northern NSW’, says Overland

Kotlarczyk was chosen from a shortlist of eight. Second place ($2000) went to Yeena Kirkbright for ‘Camperdown Grief Junk’ and third place ($1000) went to Chris Brown for ‘New Terms for Timeless Behaviours’.

Writer Claire Aman has won the $5000 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for ‘Golden Hour’, chosen from a shortlist of seven. The prize seeks ‘powerful and original’ short fiction themed loosely around the notion of travel. The two runners up for the prize, who each receive $750, are Zoë Meager for ‘Together’ and Miso Bell for ‘Thirsty Trees’.

For more information about the prizes see the Overland website.

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