SCWC 2022 Poetry Award Shortlist Announcement
The SCWC 2022 Poetry Award had an incredible draw of poems this year, and it was no easy challenge for the judges Dr Joshua Lobb and Dr Sarah Nicholson to choose from so many excellent submissions. The winners will be announced at the SCWC 2022 Poetry Awards soon, please see below for the Shortlists and Longlists.
SCWC 2022 Poetry Award
SHORTLIST
Erin Shiel - Capers
Isabella Luna - grand(m)other
Rhian Healy - Time stands still
Rhian Healy - Paths to Water
Alisha Brown - What I would tell you, if you asked
Linda Albertson - Sestina flows on Keira street, near the Bourke Street end
Mike Epworth - They Find Their Way to Water
Natalie Cooke - Under
Lakshmi Kanchi - Watermarks
Anne-Marie Te Whiu - Bound by water
Nakita Kitson - Castle Rock
Sean West - How to Breathe Underwater
Linda Godfrey - The Weight of the Sea
Jonathan Cant - Kirra Sunset
LONGLIST
Erin Shiel - Capers
Isabella Luna - grand(m)other
Rhian Healy - Time stands still
Rhian Healy - Paths to Water
Alisha Brown - What I would tell you, if you asked
Linda Albertson - Sestine flows on Keira street
Mike Epworth - They Find Their Way to Water
Natalie Cooke - Under
Lakshmi Kanchi - Watermarks
Anne-Marie Te Whiu - Bound by water
Nakita Kitson - Castle Rock
Sean West - How to Breathe Underwater
Linda Godfrey - The Weight of the Sea
Jonathan Cant - Kirra Sunset
Emily Gray – Blue Ship
Alison Thomson – The Ocean has its waves out today
Tim Heffernan – The end of water
Trudie Murrell – Mirage
Deborah Huff - Horwood – Sheets Creak
Moira Kirkwood – Ways to Water: three considerations
India Breen - Footfalls
Natalie Cooke - Under
Pri Victor - Sea glass
Tanya Scott - Frank
Linda East – Seventy-three per cent water
Elanna Herbert – Washerwomans’
Linda Mcquarrie-Bowerman – A Winter Beach
Kai Jensen – Littoral
Camille Booker – Mermaid’s Hair
SCWC / Wollongong Art Gallery prize
for a poem responding to a work in the Ways To Water exhibition at WAG
SHORTLIST
Alisha Brown - What I would tell you, if asked
Amelia Fielden - Gong thong
Lore White - Big Island Gulls
Peter Frankis - Eight ways to look at an octopus
LONGLIST
Emily Gray – Blue Ship
Tim Heffernan – The end of water
Linda Mcquarrie-Bowerman – A Winter Beach
Lore White - Big Island Gulls
Peter Frankis - Eight ways to look at an octopus
Alisha Brown - What I would tell you, if you asked
Amelia Fielden - Gong thong
Camille Booker – Mermaid’s hair