Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Uncategorized 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Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia’s first open-age Indigenous poetry prize, awarded to an unpublished poem. Named in honour of Oodgeroo Noonuccal, the first Indigenous Australian to publish a book of verse (named with permission from Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s family and in close consultation with Quandamooka Festival). The prize is for an unpublished poem and is open to Indigenous poets, emerging and established, throughout Australia.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 80 lines or under is $2,000, plus a series of mentoring sessions with an established Indigenous poet. The highest-placed Quandamooka entry receives $500 plus a membership to Queensland Writers Centre. QPF would like to thank Copyright Agency for funding this prize, as well as the support of Queensland Writers Centre, Overland and Quandamooka Festival. QPF also thanks the Walker family for their support in the naming this prize. The 2017 selection panel Ali Cobby Eckermann and Ellen van Neerven Co-winners Jeanine Leane – Historians Sachem Parkin-Owens – My Ancestors Highest Placed Quandamooka Entry Sachem Parkin-Owens – My Ancestors Highly Commended Grace Lucas-Pennington – On arrival Rachel Bos – Tick tock Ashleigh Johnstone – Fragments of the Shadow People Sachem Parkin-Owens, this year’s co-winner and Highest Placed Quandamooka Entry, with the 2017 judges, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Ellen van Neerven. admin More by admin › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 27 March 202427 March 2024 · Cartoons Visas for Palestinians: let them in Sam Wallman Sam Wallman makes the case for a visa scheme for Palestinians fleeing the war on Gaza.