University of Canberra

The overall winner will receive AUD$15,000. The runner-up will receive AUD$5,000. The international winner (from an economically developing nation) will receive AUD$5,000. Four additional poems will be short-listed. An prize anthology of up to 60 longlisted poems will be published.

The following persons are not eligible to enter the competition or assist any eligible person to enter: judges; the Prize Administrators; University of Canberra academics, general staff or other University of Canberra employees, or immediate family members of these people.

Entries may not be submitted on someone else's behalf.

Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize

All poems entered for the prize will be single poems that have a maximum length of 60 lines

Entrants may submit up to six poems, and will pay a separate fee for each poem.

Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize

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