The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize Buy this issue Administered by Queensland Poetry Festival, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia's only open-age award for outstanding unpublished poems by Indigenous writers. Issue Contents Editorial About the prize admin Poetry Prize Highly Commended: Fragments of the Shadow People Ashleigh Johnstone Highly Commended: Tick tock Rachel Bos Highly Commended: An Arrival Grace Lucas-Pennington Co-winner: My Ancestors Sachem Parkin-Owens Co-winner: Historians Jeanine Leane Browse the issue: Editorial Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · About the prize admin Established in 2016, Queensland Poetry Festival’s Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia’s first open-age Indigenous poetry prize, awarded to an unpublished poem. Poetry Prize Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Highly Commended: Fragments of the Shadow People Ashleigh Johnstone But one day, a boy appeared. The shadow people heard a loud cry and so they raced to where the sound came from. Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Highly Commended: Tick tock Rachel Bos Watch out We’re coming Out from the edges, the cracks, from under our bridges. Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Highly Commended: An Arrival Grace Lucas-Pennington We came across water made shore in darkness woke on sand. Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Co-winner: My Ancestors Sachem Parkin-Owens Each word I speak, every poem that speaks to you. The dampened cries of My Ancestors are heard too. Sky blue truths. Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Co-winner: Historians Jeanine Leane They come out to the community in a big four-wheel drive – towin’ flash campin’ gear – looked like they’d be stayin’ awhile – set up camp. The historians – they said they were – come out to help us tell our story. Previous Issue 226.5 Autumn fiction Next Issue 227 Winter 2017
