Recent Awards & Recognition
This page celebrates and acknowledges the recent wider awards and competition successes and book publications of the Calanthe poets beyond their Calanthe Press books.
Jane Frank has longlisted for the 2026 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize for her poems “Caesura” and “After a day painting en plein air in Upwey, Fred Williams works on Burnt Landscape, 1968.”
Vanessa Page also made the longlist with her poem, “Onion Weed.”
Click on the tab below to visit Liquid Amber Press and see the full longlist for this competition.
Stephanie Green’s third poetry collection, Sahara Rain, is published by Liquid Amber Press and will be released in Australia in September 2026.
An international pre-launch of Sahara Rain took place at the Himalayan Writers Festival on 4 June 2026, in Kathmandu, Nepal. A Canberra launch is planned for 1 November at The Art Box.
Set against the vast and shifting landscapes of the Moroccan edge of the Sahara Desert, Sahara Rain is a powerful poetic meditation on climate, memory, survival, and human connection. Inspired by a massive desert storm, the collection explores the many meanings of “weathering” — from environmental transformation to the emotional aftermath of war, grief, and displacement. Through luminous and evocative poems, the book journeys from shock and loss toward resilience, joy, and renewed intimacy.
Click on the tab below to visit Liquid Amber Press and order a copy of Sahara Rain.
The winner of the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition, Anthony Lawrence, read his winning poem Seeing Red, along with a selection of his other work on 16th May at the 2026 Cork International Poetry Festival.
You may read more about the Gregory O’Donoghue Competition by clicking on the button below.
Stephanie Green and David Terelinck longlisted in the 69th Blake Poetry Prize, 2026. The Blake Poetry prize challenges poets, both national and international, in conversations concerning faith, spirituality, religion and/or belief. To read more about the 29th Blake Prize, click on the tab below:
David Terelinck was a finalist in The Pearl Prize 2026 for his poem, “Delta Dawn at the CrowBar”. The Pearl Prize is a prominent international LGBTQIA+ literary award and festival event presented by Osborne and Fawkner Publishing as a major highlight of the Midsumma Festival.
David is also listed in the following awards in 2025:
~ longlisted in the WA Poets Inc. Poetry D’Amour competition for his poem, “Blush” and his poem “who wants to love like the great poets, anyway?”
~ shortlisted in the WA Poets Inc. Ros Spencer Award for his poem, “How to Become a Ghost”
~ longlisted in the WA Poets Inc. Ros Spencer Awards for his poem “On the Day David Malouf Personally Edited My Copy of An Open Book” and his poem “The Human Heart is 73% Water”
~ longlisted in the Liquid Amber Press prize on the theme of flight with his poem, “The Gulf of America”
Jane Frank’s third poetry collection, Gardening on Mars, was published by Shearsman Books in the UK in 2025 and launched at Avid Reader Bookshop in Brisbane in October 2025.
Gardening on Mars transcends terrestrial boundaries, exploring profound connections between the natural world and human experience. Ranging from confessional and ekphrastic poems to surreal evocations of Australian place that express strong emotional connection, these poems maintain a rich dialogue with visual artists and writers of the past and present.
For more information, or to order a copy of Gardening on Mars, click on the tab below.
Jane Frank was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2025 by The Mackinaw for her poem, “Strawberry Farm.”
Jane was longlisted in the 2025 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize, on the theme of flight, with her poem “Where Birds Wait.” Her poem “To Reach You” was commended in the WA Poets Inc. Poetry D’Amour competition. She was longlisted in the Grieve 2025 competition for her poem “What Do I Remember.” Jane was shortlisted in McQueens Quinterly Cheribun competition in 2025 for her poem “Orange Blossom” and was also longlisted in the same competition for “Workshop.”
In 2026 Jane was shortlisted for the Kempton Bookshop Prize in the UK for her poem “Paper Heart.”
To read a selection of Jane’s work, and her Pushcart-nominated poem, click on the link below.
Vanessa Page was shortlisted in the 2025 ACU Poetry Prize for her poem “Migration.” Her poem was published in the ACU anthology ‘Belonging.’ Vanessa was also longlisted in 2025 for the WA Poets Inc. Poetry D’Amour Prize for her poem “Lion’s Milk.”
Vanessa was interviewed by Rosana Licari in 2025 for the online journal ‘Stylus Lit.’ To read the full interview on Stylus Lit, and gain further insights into Vanessa as a writer, click on the link below.
Jena Woodhouse placed second in the 2024-2025 Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition for her poem, “The Swimming-Coach’s Mole.”
Jena was longlisted for the Society of Women Writers Victoria Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize in 2025 for her poem, “The Wild Country of Time.” She was also shortlisted in the South Coast Writers’ Centre (NSW) poetry competition in 2025 for her poem, “The Midnight Shift: The Kelpie.”
To read more about the MPU Poetry Prize, click on the tab below.