The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize is an award given to Australian poets for a single poem. The initial prize was awarded at the Somerset Celebration of Literature literary dinner in

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, Australia in March 1998. The prize was created by Win Schubert, Director of Art Galleries Schubert at the Gold Coast, in celebration of the dynamic life of her gallery manager and close friend, Josephine Ulrick. From 1998 until 2000, the Prize was managed by the Somerset Celebration of Literature, then from 2001 to 2003 it moved to the

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, Ulrick being a former student of that university. It then became a part of the Creative Writing program at

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, in Queensland. Starting in 2013, the Arts, Education and Law Group at Griffith University funded the award fully, and the name was changed to the Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize.

Winners

Winners of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize (1998–2012) and the Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize (2013–2016): *Slattery's awards were revoked after the discovery of widespread plagiarism.

Winners

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