Past winners of the Dorothy Hewett Award

Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002) is considered one of Australia’s leading writers whose work captures and disrupts ideas of normalcy in twentieth century Australian culture. In 1986, Hewett was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her services to literature. Hewett won the Western Australian Premier’s Poetry Award in 1994 and 1995 for her collections Peninsula and Collected Poems: 1940-1995.

 

The Dorothy Hewett Award is hosted by UWA Publishing and supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. It is a national award for unpublished manuscripts and run annually in the month of November. The award is open to all writers regardless if they have been published before or not. To enter and find out more click here.

 

2024

Winner announced: Kaya Ortiz

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2023

Winner announced: Kirsty Iltners

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2022

Winner announced: Brendan Ritchie

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2021

Winners announced: Josh Kemp and Kgshak Akec

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2020

Winner announced: Karen Wyld

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2019

Winner announced: Angela Rockel

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The Dorothy Hewett Award announces change to become a national award

 

2018

Winner announced: Julie Watts

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In 2017 we chose to align the award with the year of announcement

 

2016

Winner announced: Odette Kelada

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2015

Winner announced: Josephine Wilson

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