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Fellowships

Winners of the Poets Union 2010 Poetry Prize and The Scanlon Prize for a book of Indigenous Poetry

2010 winners of the Scanlon Prize and Poets Union Poetry Prize will be announced this weekend at the 7th Australian Poetry Festival.

The Young Poets Fellowships for 2010

The 2010 Poets Union Young Poets Fellowships

The Poets Union wishes to offer two Young Poets Fellowships for poets aged 19 to 30.

Shoalhaven Literary Award (2010 for poetry) submissions were due 28 May

Shoalhaven Literary Award (2010 for poetry) submissions due 28 May

Poetry Competition: The Shoalhaven Literary Award for 2010 is now open.

ArtStart grants for internships- submissions due 26th October $10,000 grants for creative arts graduates

Speak to the Poets Union's Martin Langford martinlangford@bigpond.com about 'ArtStart' a new arts funding initiative announced by the Federal Government - $10,000 grants for internships or attachments

NSW Writers Fellowship closing date

NSW Writers Fellowship: to assist the writing of a new literary work by a writer (novelist/poet/playwright or other writer of fiction or non-fiction) living in NSW.

An Opuscule in Loving

By Claire Potter, 2006 Australian Young Poets Fellow.

Before us, sunset
Ants skate under the blue mangroves,
unstitching small lips of warm evening
rainbow water -

Love's hands up in throes:
ants write in moving water what between us
cannot be disclosed

Pregnant Belly as a Bridal Dress

By Esther Ottaway, 2006 Australian Young Poets Fellow.

Her belly is veiled
in lacework, embroidered
with silver, crimson, weft
and warp, destiny. Swathe
of scars, interpolations, text
of an opal genome, a palimpsest
of truth-telling, cathedral satin,
chantilly, guipure, pearlescent
tracery, the pinprick pains
of needlepoint, body's fabric
giving way to prophecy, the separating
strands of corium and scarfskin
interlacing, drawing her
to a single spellbound morning
of unveiling.

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