The 2022 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize, in partnership with Rabbit, a journal for nonfiction poetry, has been launched. The 2022 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize, in partnership with Rabbit, a journal for nonfiction poetry, has been launched.Judges are Georgina Wood, a poet and environmentalist living on Worimi and Awabakal land, in Muloobinba/Newcastle, and Joel Davison, a Gadigal and Dunghutti poet, technologist and sustainable fashion entrepreneur.Venie Holmgren started to write poetry in her late 50s and published her first anthology, The Sun Collection for the Planet in 1989, becoming a poetry best seller.At the same time, she applied her environmental activist skills and commitment to the campaign to save native forests near her home on the far south coast of NSW, where she was arrested twice for obstructing log trucks.After 16 years of solo self-reliant living she moved to the local town of Pambula where she penned her travel memoir, several more books of poetry and travelled widely as a performance poet.In 2010 Venie moved to Hepburn where she wrote her last poetry collection, The Tea House Poems. In January 2016, Venie "caught the bus" at the age of 93.The main prize is $1000 and entries close on Wednesday, August 10. The winner will be announced at the Words in Winter festival in Daylesford on Sunday, August 28.Link: www.holmgren.com.au Hepburn shire residents have helped divert an impressive 275 tonnes of composable material from landfill in the first three months since the shire's new food and garden organics household bins started being collected. Alice Anderson and her All Girl Garage are coming to town. I have two quite interesting stories this edition. Well, maybe more, but we'll see where these end up. First one came to mind after reading Eve's latest Bushwalks of the Central Highlands. If you need cheering up don't read this column - it contains the misery- infused thoughts of a middle-aged bloke who has just realised he has no control over his world. Copyright 2024 The Local Publishing Group
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