Field of Interest:           Education, Training and Employment
Grant Recipient:           Swinburne University
Project:                        June Shenfield Poetry Award
MCF Sub-fund:             June Shenfield Poetry Award Fund

The June Shenfield award celebrates the life and work of June Shenfield – a poet, playwright and performance artist, who lived and worked in Paris, but was educated in Melbourne and was a graduate of Swinburne University.

June died in 2004 and her mother established the Award, as a lasting tribute to her daughter and her work.

Swinburne University manages the annual Award, which is designed to encourage Swinburne University students to write and become interested in publishing and reading poetry and is judged by a panel of professional writers and editors.

In 2008, the winner was Rhys Evans, for his poem "Early Return" and the Certificate of Commendation awarded to Kane Murphy, for the poem "Next Stop Please"

For further information about the Award go to www.swin.edu.au