I just sent off 5 poems to the Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman Prize. The prize is $1000, a two week residency at Manning Clark House in Canberra and a residency in a castle in Ireland. What a well-considered prize. All hail the architects behind it. I'll cross my fingers, take a deep breath... 

I live in Bundanoon, NSW and teach English at Magdalene Catholic High School in south-west Sydney. My poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Eclogues Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2007, the Broadway Poetry Prize collection 2004, Meanjin, Island, Islet, Mascara Literary Review, Wet Ink, Regime, Cordite, Famous Reporter, Rabbit, For Rhino in a Shrinking World and Poetry d'Amour…