The Wesley Michel Wright Prize is an Australian poetry prize named in honour of Wesley Michel Wright in recognition of his bequest to the University of Melbourne.
Wesley Michel Wright graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1951.
[1][2] Wright died in 1963[3] and the award was subsequently inaugurated.
[4] John Tranter, Judy Johnson and Sarah Day have won twice.
[5] Entry is open to Australian citizens for a poem or poetry collection published in the previous twelve months.