Johanna Bell wins top NT poetry award

THE winners of this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced

Deaf artist Dion Beasley and Johanna Bell collaborated on a children’s book 'Cheeky Dogs: To Lake Nash and Back'. Ms Bell has won this year’s NT Writers’ Centre Poetry Award. Picture: KERI MEGELUS

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THE winners of this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced, with Darwin’s Johanna Bell taking out the NT Writers’ Centre Poetry Award for her piece If I Were A Bird.

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Ms Bell is best known for her children’s books Too Many Cheeky Dogs and Go Home Cheeky Animals.

Meanwhile, Top End author Miranda Tetlow took home the Short Story Award for her piece Take Shelter, and Sarah Rose Reuben and Jeffrey Jay Fowler won the Brown’s Mart Theatre Award for When The Clock Strikes Two.

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Nuhansie Wijesinghe won the Charles Darwin University Essay Award for her exploration into how architecture at Royal Darwin Hospital impacts patients’ mental wellbeing and healing processes, Jethro Pollock took home the Kath Manzie Youth Award for The Dripping Tap, and Kaye Aldenhoven won the Flash Fiction Award for Sardines.