{"id":1457,"date":"2026-10-01T05:23:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:25:05","slug":"newcastle-poetry-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Poetry Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterwriterscentre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-27-NPP-Banner-1.jpg\" width=\"469\" height=\"183\" \/> I&#8217;ve been a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hunterwriterscentre.org\/\">Hunter Writers Centre<\/a> for almost 30 years and I think I&#8217;ve been entering the Newcastle Poetry Prize, which the HWC administers, for almost as long. I&#8217;ve been shortlisted several times and was lucky enough to win the HWC members award. I have a good working knowledge of the prize and am absolutely honoured to be one of the judges this year along with the fabulous poet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graceyeepoet.com\/\">Grace Yee.\u00a0<\/a> The Newcastle Poetry Prize is not only one of the longest-running and richest prizes in Australia, it&#8217;s also one of the few prizes that allows for and encourages the long-form.\u00a0 Poems can be up to 200 words. I expect to be doing a lot of poetry reading through the adjudication process and that&#8217;s just fine with me. For more information about the prize and to enter, visit: https:\/\/<a href=\"https:\/\/hunterwriterscentre.org\/newcastle-poetry-prize\/\">hunterwriterscentre.org\/newcastle-poetry-prize\/.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a member of the Hunter Writers Centre for almost 30 years and I think I&#8217;ve been entering the Newcastle Poetry Prize, which the HWC administers, for almost as long. I&#8217;ve been shortlisted several times and was lucky enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}