My name is Vanessa Page, I am a 35 year old currently living and working in Brisbane. I started writing poetry again in 2008 after a long hiatus, and now I can’t imagine life without writing every day.
Most recently my second collection of poetry ‘The lost art of penning you a love note’ was named as runner up in the 2011 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an unpublished manuscript.
My first collection of poetry – Memory Bone, was shortlisted for the 2010 Press Press Prize and is to be published in the forthcoming months by Press Press.
In April 2011 a collection of my work will be published in Brisbane New Voices Vol III.
PRIZES
Over the past few years my poetry has won a number of prizes including:
1st Prize (Ipswich Open Age) 2011 Ipswich Poetry Feast for “Limestone Park”
2nd Prize (Open Local) 2011 Ipswich Poetry Feast for “Final”
Highly Commended (Open Other) 2011 Ipswich Poetry Feast for “Chrysalid”
1st Prize, 2011 USQ Poetry Competition for “Awakening”
3rd Prize, 2011 Banjo Patterson Literary Awards for “Saddle Dreaming”
1st Prize of the 2010 USQ Poetry Prize for ‘Christmas, 1982′
Commendation for “Loss” in the 2010 USQ Poetry Prize
Highly Commended collaborative art/poetry piece with Maryanne Oliver for ‘Puddings’ at the 2010 Tenterfield Brush with Verse competition
Highly Commended at 2010 Laura Literary Awards and Gumnuts competitions
2nd Prize, 2009 Ipswich Poetry Feast for “Between Barcaldine and Us”
Highly Commended at the 2008 Ipswich Poetry Feast for ‘shapes in the weather’
IN PRINT
My poems have appeared in the following publications:
SpeedPoets zine
kipple
The Bluepepper
2010 Central Coast Poets Inc Anthology
PERFORMANCE
I have performed my poetry at the following events:
2011 Riverbend Poetry Series for the Queensland Poetry Festival at Riverbend Books
2010 Poetry Month Author Readings at Avid Reader
SpeedPoets, first Sunday of the month
Winner, 2011 SpeedPoets Open Mic Championships
