Amongst the richest poetry and short story prizes in the world, the Josephine Ulrick prizes in 2012 are worth $40,000 in prize money.
Griffith University's School of Humanities on the Gold Coast administers the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize on behalf of the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts.
2012 Literature Prize winner
- First Prize ($20,000) "Long Grass Over Home" by Matthew Lamb, Tasmania
2012 Poetry Prize winner
- First Prize ($20,000) "S.O.S" by Maria Zajkowski, Victoria
Josephine Ulrick 2012 award winners, Maria Zajkowski and Matthew Lamb
2011 Literature Prize winners
- First Prize ($10,000) ‘Tryst’ by Rachael S Morgan, Queensland.
- Second Prize ($5,000) ‘Forgetting’ by Maya Linden, Victoria.
- Commended ($2,500) ‘Into the Deep’ by Sarah Klenbort, New South Wales.
- Commended ($2,500) ‘How to make custard’ by Campbell Mattinson, Victoria.
2011 Poetry Prize winners
- First Prize ($10,000) ‘The loophole or how the sky ignores us’ by Maria Zajkowski, Victoria.
- Second Prize ($5,000) ‘And then when the’ by Dan Disney, Victoria.
- Commended ($2,500) ‘Please’ by Kristen Lang, Tasmania.
- Commended ($2,500) ‘Philosophy in a Ghosting Universe’ by Rhyll McMaster, New South Wales.