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Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards

Locality: Gunnedah, New South Wales

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25.01.2022 DOROTHEA MACKELLAR MURAL IN PROGRESS! Today Gunnedah witnessed internationally acclaimed artist, Heesco’s first day painting the Dorothea Mackellar Mural at the Gunnedah Maize Mill. Check out the pics below and watch this space for updates!

24.01.2022 Did you catch our first ever Virtual Ceremony? What did you think?

22.01.2022 Congratulations, Evie!

22.01.2022 Here we have a previous DMPA judge teaching a poetry course! Go check it out!

22.01.2022 Congratulations to Evie Watt, daughter of Boggabri cotton growers David and Janet Watt, on being awarded a major national poetry prize for her poem about cotton.... Evie was this morning named the recipient of the 2020 Kurrumbede Award in the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards. Read more https://cottonaustralia.com.au//evie-watt-wins-dorothea-ma Well done, Evie! Sacred Heart Boggabri National Farmers' Federation

21.01.2022 Another progress shot!

21.01.2022 Our Lower Primary Winner, Nina Cordaro!

20.01.2022 Psssst.. guess what's coming...

19.01.2022 With preparations for this year's virtual ceremony almost complete, we wanted to give a shoutout to the lovely teams at both Allen & Unwin Books and Penguin Books Australia for supplying books for our prize packs! We support Australian literature as much as possible and want to pass it onto our prize winners, too. Visit their webstes to see their full range of books!

17.01.2022 This year's Primary Schools' Award Winner was Redeemer Baptist School in North Parramatta, NSW. Redeemer has a long history of entering the DMPA, and their passion for poetry shows in their quality of poems entered every year. Watch our Virtual Ceremony to see them reciting their winning poems, and get a look inside their classrooms where literary magic is made!... Congratulations again to these most deserving winners, pictured here with their Board Chair at a special ceremony held at their school. Redeemer Baptist School

17.01.2022 For the first time ever, we're giving you a first-hand look into what happens at a Presentation Ceremony. This year we had to adapt with an everchanging situation, but we survived with a massive 7,600 entries! Thank you to everyone who made this video possible, including our Committee, judges, Ministers, Patrons, winners (and their schools), and all those who helped behind the scenes as well.... We hope you enjoy! -DMPA #DorotheaMackellarPoetryAwards2020

16.01.2022 Post-Awards with all the feelings, here’s a short video from our Project Officer Brittany.

15.01.2022 Congratulations to Year 6 student Larissa who was awarded the runner-up prize Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Award, in the Upper Primary Learning Assistance category..., for her poem 'Gone'. Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards received over 7,600 submissions this year and we are proud to see a #CGGS student among the awards recipients. See more

12.01.2022 Public Service Announcement Our Project Officer has worked her behind off and has dropped off 7,000+ Participation Certificates to Australia Post this morning! Hooray! They'll be making their way across the country over the coming days.... Now we're onto the anthology. We'll keep you posted as to when these are ready to be sent.

12.01.2022 Be sure to watch

12.01.2022 Exciting things are happening in our neck of the woods!

11.01.2022 Our first Virtual Ceremony is so close we can smell it! Here’s our President, Pip Murray, with all the final details! Tune in at www.dorothea.com.au/presentation-ceremony tomorrow, 4th September at 10am to see it all unfold!

11.01.2022 Did you love our Presentation Ceremony and would like to be involved in the next one? Message us about becoming a Dorothea Mackellar Memorial Society member! It's only $20/year!

10.01.2022 It's time for another Dorothea article! Dorothea was a talented woman whose legacy lives on in the Australian literary landscape and beyond. This article tells more about her trials and tribulations during her earlier years. Enjoy! :)

06.01.2022 Here is our gorgeous Mackellar Centre in glorious Springtime bloom, accompanied by the delightful sounds of singing magpies. We have a wonderful Society volunteer who tends to the roses and we’re so grateful to have you, Brenda. -Brittany, Project Officer

04.01.2022 Guess what arrived today! We’re excited to bring you a soft-bound anthology containing all the winning, shortlisted, and commended poems from the 2020 competition. Message us now to order your copy and have it on your shelf for years to come!... For those that pre-ordered, your books will be on their way shortly!

04.01.2022 We’re making TV news as well! https://www.nbnnews.com.au//young-poets-recognised-in-36t/

03.01.2022 Are you planning on watching our Presentation Ceremony? This is the first year we'll be bringing it to you from the comfort of your classroom, lounge, or office. We can't give away too much yet, but it's going to be epic!

02.01.2022 This Friday evening at #MorphIt head to Berkley Street for a night of Poetry hosted by Poetry Al Fresco from 5pm until 7pm Listen in to the famous Judy Johnso...n along with poets Phoebe Carter-Swain, Catherine Knight and Pip Sheehan. For more information vsiit http://mait.city/MorphItPoetry To see what else is on this weekend head to https://mait.city/MorphIt