Some of the nation’s brightest young wordsmiths have been celebrated at the 2026 Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards. The much-loved annual initiative is administered by Gunnedah’s Dorothea Mackellar Memorial Society and has provided young people with an opportunity to creatively express themselves for almost four decades. This year’s awards were again a tremendous success with close to 8,000 poems from 5,500 students received, read and judged. Since it started, more than 350,000 poems have been entered into what is a major undertaking by the society.   In her welcome message, society president Rebecca Ryan said people often make the mistake of […]