 The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 100,000.The prize was formerly known as the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry from inception until 2010, when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name.It was named after the early twentieth century vernacular poet C. J. Dennis.