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BRILLIANT PRIZES @ AP SUBSCRIBERDRIVE 2025
AP’s annual 2025 SubscriberDrive has arrived. As poetry is bringing its vital spark to these times, with often booked-out events and strong sales, think about buying or renewing a subscription to AP, for yourself or for a pal. From 8th December for a month,...
Rabbit Annual 2025: Launch Event, Melbourne
Wed, 10 Dec, 6pm - 8pm AEDT The Wheeler Centre Melbourne VIC, Australia You are warmly invited to the launch of the first Rabbit Annual, from the team at Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry. (Free, though please register through the Humanitix link). ...
Inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award Poem
The winner of the inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award was Martha Kamara. You can read more about the winner announcement here. In the words of 2025 judge Claire Gaskin: 'I finally picked as the winner the poem I felt was most resolved, which for me means the poem...
Australian Poetry Digital 2025 Volume
Welcome to AP’s inaugural AUSTRALIAN POETRY DIGITAL 1 2025 volume. Conceived as an adjunct to our annual AUSTRALIAN POETRY ANTHOLOGY, as with APA, the APD features poets who are also Subscribers. You must be a Subscriber to submit poems to either publication. ...
the tears the pelicans are leaving us like a line of words quicker than
the tongue drift glide sail waft fly fly away something happened here.
— ‘Flight Feathers’, Ellen Van Neerven
Australian Poetry Announces the Anne Elder Award 2025 Call-Out
Australian Poetry Announces the Anne Elder Award 2025 Call-Out KEY DATES FOR THE 2025 AWARD, for first books published during 2025 and with judging occurring in 2026 are: Open call for entries – Tuesday, 27 January 2026. Close of entries – Monday, 23 March...
The Inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award Winner Announcement
The Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 is a new award for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via Social Media. The Award, with a prize of $1,000 for the successful poet, has been established to honour the memory of Theresa Matheson...
Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 12 2025 Open for Submissions
The guest editors for APA Vol.12 are Lachlan Brown and Keri Glastonbury. Submissions to the Anthology open on Friday, 23 May, and close Monday 23 June 2025, 11.59 pm (AEST). We invite all Australian Poetry subscribers to submit. The Anthology publication date is 30...
Northern Italian Eco-Residency 2023
Each June, during the European Summer, the Nature, Art & Habitat Residency, An ECO-Laboratory of Multidisciplinary Practice, located in Taleggio Valley, Bergamo, Italy, creates the opportunity for a cross-disciplinary cohort to spent a month of creative community...