Poem Forest Winners Announcement

The Poetry Company is excited to celebrate the 2026 Poem Forest prize winners!

This live-streamed event features the announcement of winners and highly commended poems across our ten prize categories for Primary, Secondary, First Nations, CaLD, and Teacher entries. The event will also feature guest poets and nature poem readings, giveaways, judges' notes, and more.

Poem Forest shortlisted entries and winning poems will be published in The Poetry Company's digital poem library and have the chance to win up to $500 in book packs, journals, plants, seeds, garden tours, and more.