Past awards and winners
The first Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards was held in 1984 with 300 entries. Over the past 42 years we have received over 318,600 poems. For more information on the history of the awards and the winners click on the links below:
1987 Awards - “A Typical Australian”
1988 Awards - “Far Horizons”
1989 Awards - “Colours”
1990 Awards - “Coming Home”
1991 Awards - “Friends”
1992 Awards - “Changes”
1993 Awards - “Feelings”
1994 Awards - “Why"?”
1995 Awards - “Camped by a Billabong”
1996 Awards - “Dreams”
1997 Awards - “Mysteries”
1998 Awards - “Journey”
1999 Awards - “Heroes and Heroines”
2000 Awards - “My Country”
2001 Awards - “Time”
2002 Awards - “Outback”
2003 Awards - “Moving on”
2004 Awards - “Celebrations”
2005 Awards - “Water”
2006 Awards - “Backyard”
2007 Awards - “Colours”
2008 Awards - “Forests Feathers Fins & Fur”
2009 Awards - “Searching for Stars”
2010 Awards - “I Hear Music”
2011 Awards - “Making Pictures”
2012 Awards - “Wheels and Wings and Marvellous Things”
2013 Awards - “Wherever the Wind Blows”
2014 Awards - “What Shall We Tell You"?”
2015 Awards - “The Open Door”
2016 Awards - “Waiting”
2017 Awards - “Over the World”
2018 Awards - “I have Promised to Keep”
2019 Awards - “Is There Anybody There?”
2020 Awards - “We Used to Live Here”
2021 Awards - “Rich and Rare”
2022 Awards - “In My Opinion”
2023 Awards - “The Winding Road”
2024 Awards - “Listen I have an Idea”
2025 Awards - “All the Beautiful Things”