Mary Gilmore Award 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 28 May 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Mary Gilmore Award, a prize for a poet’s first book of poetry.
Judges Kate Fagan (chair), Jazz Money and Mark Byron shortlisted the following poets and their books:
- Bilal Hafda for An Army of Light (Guest House)
- Ashley Haywood for Polyp (Vagabond)
- Hasib Hourani for Rock Flight (Giramondo)
- Nam Le for 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem (Scribner)
- Roslyn Orlando for Ekhō (Upswell)
- Barrina South for Makarra (Recent Work Press).
The winner will be announced on 30 June at an awards night during the ASAL + IABA conference.
Last year’s winner was Dan Hogan for Secret Third Thing (Cordite).
More details are available on the ASAL website.
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