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The Kathleen Grattan Award
Auckland poet Kathleen Grattan, a journalist and former editor of the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, died in 1990. A member of the Titirangi Poets, her work was published in Landfall and other volumes including Premier Poets, a collection from the World Poetry Society. Her daughter Jocelyn Grattan, who also worked for the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, shared her mother's love of literature. She has generously left Landfall a bequest with which to establish an award in memory of Kathleen Grattan.
About the Competition
The award is for an original collection of poems or a long poem by a New Zealand or Pacific resident or citizen. N.B: Individual poems in the collection can have been previously published, but the collection as a whole should be unpublished. Entries will be accepted from 1 May each year. The closing date will be 31 July each year and the winner will be announced in the November issue of Landfall. Entries must be either received or postmarked by July 31. The announcement will be made in the November issue of Landfall. The winner will receive $16,000 and a year's subscription to Landfall.
The judge of the 2011 competition is Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen.
Conditions of Entry
- 1. Entries will be a collection of poems or one long poem.
- 2. Minimum submission length is 20 pages. Formatting, font size etc is your choice.
- 3. Entries will be unpublished, original work. Note, it is the collection as a whole that should not have been previously published. Individual poems in the collection can have been published previously.
- 3. Entrants will be New Zealand or Pacific permanent residents or citizens.
- 4. Only one entry per person will be accepted. Please send a cover letter with your personal contact details, two hard copies of your manuscript (your name is not to appear on this), and a c.d with your manuscript saved as RTF, MS Word or a text-only file (your name can appear on this).
- 5. The Judge will assess the merits of submissions and reserve the right not to award a prize.
- 6. No correspondence with the Judge will be entered into.
- 7. Landfall/Otago University Press reserves the right of first publication of the winning entry. All entries will be considered for publication.
- 8. The name and photograph of the winning writer may be used by Landfall and/or its publishers for publicity purposes.
- 9. No present employees of Otago University Press or present editors of Landfall are eligible to enter.
How to Enter
Two hard copies of your manuscript and a c.d with your manuscript saved as RTF, MS Word or text-only files are required. Entrants should include a stamped, addressed envelope for return of their manuscripts.
The entrant's name, address and telephone number should appear ONLY on a separate cover sheet of the manuscript. Please ensure the title of the submission is on this sheet and on the manuscript itself.
Entries should be addressed to: The Kathleen Grattan Award, Otago University Press, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. Courier address is Otago University Press, level 1, 398 Cumberland St, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
Queries, email contact: landfall@otago.ac.nz, or Otago University Press, ph. (03) 479 8807
Award winners
  Landfall 220 (May 2010) announced the 2010 winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award, judged by Vincent O'Sullivan: 'This City' by Jennifer Compton.
Compton's volume 'sustains a questing, warmly sceptical mind's engagement with wherever it is, whatever it takes in, and carries the constant drive to say it right,' says O'Sullivan.
Jennifer Compton was born in New Zealand in 1949 and now lives in Australia. Since Jennifer sold her first poem at the age of fifteen to the Listener she has written for television, for the stage, for radio, and she also writes fiction, memoir and creative non-fiction. Her winning collection for the Kathleen Grattan Award was published by Otago University Press in July of 2011.
Two other collections were runners-up in the 2010 awards: Ian Wedde's 'The Lifeguard' and Victoria Broome’s 'The Big Red Engine'.
  Landfall 218 (May 2009) announced the 2009 winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award, judged by Ian Wedde: 'Stunning Debut of the Repairing of a Life' by the late Leigh Davis. This book was published by Otago University Press in July 2010.
  Landfall 216 (May 2008) announced the inaugural winner of this award, judged by Fleur Adcock: ‘The Summer King’ by Joanna Preston. This collection was published by Otago University Press on Montana NZ Poetry Day in 2009 and subsequently won the Australian Mary Gilmore Award for best first book of poetry.
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