Rozanna Lilley has been shortlisted for the 2022 Red Room Poetry Fellowship.
Each year, the Red Room Poetry Fellowship is awarded to a previously-commissioned poet to foster and enhance their poetic and professional development.
The 2022 shortlist of ten contemporary Australian poets included a diverse selection of established and emerging poetic voices. The panel of judges were “frankly astounded by the strength of the applications received this year. The diversity, inventiveness and calibre of both proposals and accompanying poetry made the judging process extremely challenging”.
Poems were commissioned from each of the shortlisted poets. Red Room published three of Rozanna’s, all part of her docufiction verse novel titled Beechworth, 1879: Blanche’s Valentine, Humbug, and The Beechworth and North-Eastern Agricultural and Horticultural Show.