Blake Poetry Prize
Exploring the Religious and Spiritual Through Poetry
The 2013 Blake Poetry Prize is now open and accepting entries. Entries close Friday 14 June.
If you’re interested in entering your poem, you can download and fill in the
2013 Blake Entry Form and follow the submission guidelines on the flyer. You can find the answers to the most frequently asked questions
here.
Presented by the NSW Writers’ Centre and the Blake Society, the
$5,000 Prize is named for visionary artist and poet William Blake, and
was established to give Australian poets new possibilities to explore
religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century.
The 2013 judges
Robert Adamson is one of Australia’s leading poets.
He has written 20 books, mostly collections of poetry but also a few
autobiographies. His work has been translated into several languages and
is internationally published. He won the Blake Poetry Prize in 2011.
Adamson on the prize: “Of all the prizes for poetry the Blake is the
one, like its namesake, it stands for something more than its generous
bounty. It vibrates with Blake’s unique vision”.
Michelle Cahill is the author of two collections of
poetry and two chapbooks and the co-editor of Contemporary Asian
Australian Poets (Puncher and Wattmann, 2013).
She was highly commended in the Blake Poetry Prize, the Wesley Michel
Wright Prize and received the Val Vallis Award. She edits Mascara
Literary Review. In 2013 she is the CAL/UOW International Poetry Fellow
at Kingston University, London.
Eileen Chong is a Sydney poet. In 2010 she won the
Poets Union Youth Fellowship, and she was the Australian Poetry Fellow
for 2011-2012. She was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to
pursue a Doctorate of Creative Arts at UWS in 2011. Her first
collection, Burning Rice, was published in the New Voices Series 2012 by
Australian Poetry.
To find out more about the competition and enter, download the
2013 Blake Entry Form. To find out more about the previous winners, click
here.
About The Blake Society
The Blake Society is an independent organization
that administers an annual Exhibition and Prize for contemporary
religious and spiritual art. The aim of the Blake Society is to
encourage contemporary artists to explore the spiritual in art. The
Blake Society was formed at the instigation of a Jesuit priest, Michael
Scott and a Jewish businessman, Richard Morley. They hoped that the
establishment of a prize would encourage artists of disparate styles and
religious allegiances to create significant works of art with religious
content. Today its members hope to stimulate the interaction of ideas
and spiritual thought across all contemporary artistic media in
Australia. The Society is a registered charity with DGR status.
For more information on the 2012 competition, click
here.
The Blake Poetry Prize is made possible by the support of Leichhardt
Municipal Council, which has a strong commitment to supporting the arts.
