.Australian Poetry, based at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, acknowledges the custodians and owners of the land, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and future and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
AP @ NT Writers’ Festival
Australian Poetry is thrilled to be partnering with the NT Writers' Centre to launch Volume 7 of the Australian Poetry Anthology (2019)on Sunday 19 May at 9am at the Bean Tree Cafe at the Olive Pink Botanic Gardens. This is the first time AP has...
read moreAPJ 9.1 Open for Submissions
Submissions close 11.59 PM AEST 17 May 2019. Australian Poetry Journal 8.2 (poetry guest edited by David Stavanger and Andrew Galan) is now available. Australian Poetry Anthology Vol 7 2019 will be available in May. If you would like to support Australian Poetry,...
read moreAnnouncing the winner of the 2018 Anne Elder Award
Australian poet Anne Elder (1918–1976) Australian Poetry is thrilled to announce the winning and commended books in the 2018 Anne Elder Award. The award is named after Australian poet, Anne Elder, 1918-1976. Sponsored by Anne’s daughter, Cathie, this...
read morethe 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
MPU’s Chapbook Poet Series for Published Poets
MPU Publishing's new Editor-in-Chief Tina Giannoukos invites submissions for MPU’s Chapbook Poet Series for Published PoetsSubmissions are open for MPU’s new chapbook series for published poets for publication in 2020.Manuscripts will be selected during...
read moreAPJ 9.1 Open for Submissions
Submissions close 11.59 PM AEST 17 May 2019. Australian Poetry Journal 8.2 (poetry guest edited by David Stavanger and Andrew Galan) is now available. Australian Poetry Anthology Vol 7 2019 will be available in May. If you would like to support Australian Poetry,...
read moreNorthern Territory Literary Awards 2019
The annual Northern Territory Literary Awards celebrate the unpublished work of Territory writers in a range of categories. The NT Writers’ Centre Poetry Award will be awarded to a single poem up to 300 lines, and the winning poet will receive $1,000 as...
read moreTartu City of Literature International Residency Program
Tartu City of Literature Office announces the second 2018 call for applications of Tartu City of Literature International Residency Program for writers and translators.
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