International Writers’ Workshop NZ is delighted to announce that Ōtepoti Dunedin poet Sue Wootton is the 2025 winner of The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems judged by Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington poet Anna Jackson. Richard Smith from Porirua is runner-up.
Sue receives the prestigious $1000 prize for her sequence ‘Holding Patterns: seven songs of pots, jars, bowls and vases’. She says she is honoured and delighted to be awarded this year’s Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems and thanks the Grattan family for making this award possible, IWW, and judge Anna Jackson.
Congratulations Sue!
'One of writing’s greatest magics is to allow us – to use Kiri Piahana-Wong’s phrase – to slide outside the trap of time.' - David Taylor