Sarah Rice
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Sarah Rice is a Canberra based art-theory lecturer, visual artist and writer. Her limited-edition letterpress book of poetry, Those Who Travel (prints by Patsy Payne, Ampersand Duck, 2010) is held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia. She was shortlisted in the 2013 Montreal Poetry Prize, co-won the 2011 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, was among the ten winners of the 2012 Poetry in Action Award, was highly commended in the 2011 Michael Thwaites Poetry Award, was commended in the 2011 CJ Dennis Literary Awards, and shortlisted in the inaugural Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman award. Her poetry is published in the Global Poetry Anthology 2013, Best Australian Poems 2012, Award Winning Australian Writing 2012, Long Glances: A Snapshot of New Australian Poetry from the Inaugural Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman Poetry Prize (ed. Theodore Ell, 2013), the Poetry D'Amour anthology 2013 selected by Dennis Haskell, New Writing: fourW twenty-two anthology 2011, Australian Poetry Members' Anthology; and Island, Southerly, Blackmail Press, amongst others. Her series of eight ekphrastic poems in response to photographer Ian North's Canberra Suite was commissioned and published in the Centenary edition of Art Monthly, 2013, and her collaborative work with ceramicist Patsy Hely, On the Mountain (poetry on hand-painted porcelain vessels), was exhibited at Craft ACT in 2011.
Winning Entry: I Am Shadow
Contest Won: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2013, Honorable Mention, Tom Howard Prize
