2021 Poetry Prize Judge is announced

This years judge is Majella Cullinane

Majella Cullinane

Majella Cullinane writes poetry, fiction and essays. Her 2018 debut novel The Life of De’Ath was shortlisted for the NZSA Heritage Book Awards and longlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Fiction. She has published two poetry collections Guarding the Flame, Salmon Poetry, Ireland 2011 and Whisper of a Crow’s Wing, Salmon Poetry and Otago University Press, 2018. The latter was chosen as The NZ Listener’s Top Ten Poetry Books of 2018. Majella was the 2014 Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. Last year she was awarded a Copyright Licencing New Zealand Grant for a non-fiction project. Majella has a PhD in Creative Practice from the University of Otago and lives in Port Chalmers with her partner Andrew and their son, Robbie.

A date for submissions for the Caselberg International Poetry Prize will be announced soon.