Val Vallis was a lyric poet who lectured in English and Philosophy at the University of Queensland.
Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award currently offers $2000 in total prizes for an unpublished poem or suite of poems for Australian emerging poets including the winner and r/up as well as support from Queensland Writers Centre.
The prize is managed by and presented as a part of the Queensland Poetry Festival.
2003 Jaya Savige 2004 Judy Johnson 2005 Ynes Sanz, Quandamooka Suite[2] 2006 Nathan Shepherdson, The easiest way to open a door is to turn the handle[3] 2007 Andrew Slattery, Frameworkers[4] 2008 Anna Krien[5] 2009 Andrew Slattery[6] 2010 Michelle Cahill[7] 2011 Rachael Briggs, Tough Luck[8] 2012 Chloe Wilson, Not Fox Nor Axe[9] 2013 B.R.
Dionysius, Protein Gradients[9] 2014 Chloe Wilson, The Heads of Holofernes[9] (judges Judith Beveridge, Sarah Holland-Batt, Kent MacCarter) 2015 Andrew Last, Precedent[10] (judges Melinda Smith and Michael Farrell) 2016 Caitlin Maling, Conversion[11] (judges Robert Sullivan and Chloe Wilson) 2017 Bronwyn Lovell, Quietly, on the way to Mars[12] (judges Michelle Cahill and Stuart Barnes) 2018 Zenobia Frost, Reality On-Demand[13] (judges Alison Whittaker and Angela Gardner) 2019 Damen O’Brien, Ice and Glass[14] (judges Tamryn Bennett, Judith Beveridge, Yvette Holt) 2020 Helen Lucas, Heirloom[15] (judges Felicity Plunkett and Samuel Wagan Watson)[16] 2021 Dimitra Harvey, Cicadas[17] (judges Sara M Saleh and Andy Jackson) 2022 Dan Hogan, Aduantas[18] (judges Lucy Van and Damen O'Brien) 2023 Jarad Bruinstroop, Fragments on the Myth of Cy Twombly[19] (judges Benjamin Dodds and Zenobia Frost)