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The Newcastle Poetry Prize is an annual Australian award for Australian poetry, administered by Hunter Writers' Centre, which has been awarded since 1981, when it was first established as the Mattara Poetry Prize. [1]
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The Prize began in September 1980 when Peter Goldman handed out an anthology of poetry at the Mattara Festival. [1]
This anthology prompted two lecturers at the University of Newcastle, Christopher Pollnitz and Paul Kavanagh, to seek funding for a poetry competition which paved the way for the first official Mattara Poetry Prize in 1981. This prize gone on to become known as the Newcastle Poetry Prize. [1]
Today the Prize receives entries from across the nation.