Congratulations to OOTA members for recognition in the 2021 Tom Collins Prize.

Kevin Gillam won First Prize for his poem, ‘from here’ .

Dick Alderson was Highly Commended for ‘Butcher Bird’.

Renee Pettitt-Schipp was also Highly Commended for ‘Love (and Lost for Words) in a Time of Covid’.

Congratulations are also due to OOTA writers with poems in the Australian Poetry Anthology, Volume 8 2021-22

Kevin Gillam. A jetty all too soon.

Julie Watts. Mother Mother

Dick Alderson. Easter 2020; Cars at Sunset

Carolyn Abbs. Tragedy

Rose van Son. Finding Fergus