Named in honour of the Queensland poet Val Vallis, the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award offers a $4000 prize for an unpublished poem or suite of poems for Australian emerging poets. The prize is presented as a part of the Queensland Poetry Festival. Past winners include Anna Krien, Andrew Slattery (twice), Nathan Shepherdson, Ynes Sanz, Sandra Hill, Judy Johnson, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Bronwyn Lea and Rebecca Edwards.
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