The Fellowships provide funds for experienced poets to mentor the Fellows, to publish chapbooks, grant access to the Poetry Australian Foundation's New Poets Workshops, and in Australian Poetry Festival years, the opportunity to present work at the Festival.

The Fellowships are managed by the Poets Union and funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

The 2009 NSW Premiers Literary Awards were announced at the Sydney Writers Festival.

Congratulations to Lucy Holt on her receipt of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for her collection ‘Man Wolf Man’.

Lucy was a 2004 Poets Union ‘Australian Young Poets Fellowship’ holder and was mentored by the Poets Union. In 2005 the Poets Union published a chapbook of Lucy’s poems ‘Stories of A Bird’.

The Poets Union is committed to raising funds to develop our mentoring, Poetry Fellowships, Poetry Scholarships, Residencies and Prizes.

The full list of winners of The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and more information about the awards can be found here: http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/