Entries are now invited for Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize 2013.

The prize, for publication of a fine, limited edition poetry chapbook of work by the winning entrant, is open to all Australian poets – new, emerging and established.

Previous winners of the manuscript prize are Jamie King-Holden (2010), B.R. Dionysius and Jo Langdon (2011), and Lucy Todd (2012). Lucy Todd’s Listening to the Mopokes Go will be published in August 2013.

There are no restrictions in terms of subject matter or form. Entrants are encouraged to read the collections of previous winners to get an idea of the kinds of work that have achieved success to date.

Order a collection by a previous winner – in some cases, we have just a few copies left.

The deadline is 16 August. Early submissions are encouraged. We look foward to reading your work.

Download the manuscript prize guidelines and entry form.

Whitmore Press is pleased to announce that Bowra, by B.R. Dionysius, co-winner of the 2011 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize, is now available, and will be launched in Melbourne, Ipswich and Brisbane as follows.

Melbourne
Friday 12th April, 6 for 6.30pm
Launch by Luke Beesley
The Alderman, 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East

While in Melbourne, B.R. Dionysius will also take part in readings on Saturday 13th April at the Dan O’Connell Hotel, 225 Canning St, Carlton,
2–5pm.

Ipswich
Thursday 25th April, 7pm
Launch by John Acutt, Head of English at Ipswich Grammar School
Great Hall, Ipswich Grammar School, Darling Street, Ipswich

Brisbane
Saturday, 25th May, 1.30 for 2pm
Speedpoets, @ The Hideaway, 188 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley

Copies of Bowra will be available at the launches for just $20 (RRP $22.95).

All welcome!

Can’t make the launches? Have Bowra sent to your door by ordering from our titles page.

In what was a large turnout at Readings Carlton on 1st November, Bonny Cassidy launched a new Whitmore Press limited edition chapbook, Balance, by Melbourne poet Luke Beesley.

The launch was a fitting way for Luke to finish up three years of curating poetry readings at Readings Carlton. Balance, which draws on a four-month Asialink Foundation residency in India, follows Luke’s first collection Lemon Shark, published by papertiger media in 2006.

Read the speech by Bonny Cassidy launching Balance.

Have a copy of Balance sent to your door by ordering from our titles pages.

Graeme Kinross-Smith’s Available Light: New Poems is about to be launched in Melbourne and Geelong:

Saturday 24^th November, 2–4pm
Launch by Adam Brown
Boom Gallery, 11 Rutland Street, Newtown (river end), Geelong

Thursday 29^th November, 6 for 6.30pm
Launch by Carrie Tiffany
Collected Works bookshop, First floor, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne

All welcome.

Can’t make the launch? Have a copy of Available Light sent to your door by ordering from our titles page.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize 2012 is Lucy Todd.

Lucy’s disturbingly visceral, delicate poems create a wonderfully strange archive that we believe will make for a compelling collection – one that will appear from Whitmore Press in the first half of 2013.

The ten shortlisted poets for the prize, in alphabetical order, were:

Steve Evans
Fiona Hile
James Hodson
Andy Jackson
Carmen Leigh Keates
Laura Jean McKay
Eddie Paterson
Lucy Todd
Ruby Todd
Ann Vickery

Our thanks to all who entered – many other fine submissions will, we are sure, find their way into print, or pixel, in the near future.

Welcome to the new Whitmore Press website – we will be adding content over the next few weeks.

Order collections online from our titles page.