Congratulations to postgraduate student Belinda Diepenheim, who has  won The Kathleen Grattan Award for a Sequence of Poems for her sequence “Bittercress and Flax.”

The award is sponsored by the International Writers’ Workshop NZ. The judges were Stu Bagby and Jenny Cole.

This is the second time a Massey postgraduate student has won this award. Jillian Sullivan won it in 2011.

For more information, see the IWW website:
http://www.iww.co.nz/results.htm