Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, established in 2014 and now in its ninth year, recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia.

Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks poetry by writers who have published no more than one collection of poems under their own name (that is writers who’ve had zero collections published, or one solo collection published). It remains one of the richest prizes for emerging poets, and is open to poets anywhere in the world. In 2023, the major prize is $6000, with a second prize of $2000 and a third prize of $1000. All three winners will be published in Overland.

After reading many hundreds of poems, and from a shortlist of eight standout poems, the judges of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets 2022—Pam Brown, Lachlan Brown and Toby Fitch—have selected these three poems as the winners:   In the winning poem ‘VIRIDITAS / little big scrub poem’ (published in […]

Ella O’Keefe lives in Melbourne and is working on a PhD At Deakin University on possibilities of the late modern poetic image using the work of Barbara Guest and Veronica Forrest-Thomson. She is a former director of the ‘Critical Animals’ research symposium.

Astrid Lorange is a poet, teacher, book-indexer, researcher and occasional home-brewer from Sydney. She is currently finishing a doctoral thesis on Gertrude Stein, experimental poetics and twentieth-century philosophies of science.

Alana Kelsall grew up on a farm in Victoria. She enjoys travelling, languages and spoken word. She is living in the UK at the moment with her husband and younger son, working on a novel about her life in Japan and completing her first solo collection of poetry. In 2010/11 she was shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Competition, commended in the Rosemary Dobson Prize and shortlisted for the Welsh Poetry competition.

Rebecca Kylie Law is an Australian poet. She holds a Masters degree in Poetry from the University of Melbourne, for which she was awarded second-class honours, a postgraduate diploma in English Literature (Shakespearean Poetry, UOM), a graduate diploma in Creative Writing (UOM) and a bachelor degree in Fine Art (RMIT).

Overland magazine and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are very pleased to announce that the winner of the 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Writers is Joel Ephraims for his poem ‘Rock Candy’.

Editors Overland is pleased to announce the appointment of new editors for 2011. From edition 202, the poetry editor is Peter Minter and the fiction editor is Jane Gleeson-White. Peter Minter is a leading contemporary Australian poet, editor and scholar. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Empty Texas and blue grass, […]

This is the third year that, with the help of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, Overland has hosted the Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, a competition that is closing very, very soon. Like many poets, Wright had a long and fruitful association with Overland, the journal in which her last published poem, […]