Magisterium, my second collection of poetry, has been named as a finalist in the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Best New Writing category.
It's a unique award, run ever three years and open to just about every literary form, from poetry to fiction to non-fiction to theater. The only criteria is that award has to be 'for a piece of published or produced work of outstanding clarity, originality and creativity by a Victorian writer, 40 years or under.'
The range of work represented by the other finalists is very broad. Those finalists are:
- Tom Cho - Look Who’s Morphing
- Lisa Gorton - Press Release
- Chloe Hooper - The Tall Man
- Simmone Howell - Everything Beautiful
- Myfanwy Jones - The Rainy Season
- Lally Katz – Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd
- Nam Le - The Boat
- Amra Pajalic - The Good Daughter
- Jeff Sparrow – Killing
