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AP @ Tell Me Like You Mean It Vol. 4
Tell Me Like You Mean It Vol. 4, 2020 is an annual under age 30s / emerging poets’ digital chapbook published by Australian Poetry (AP) in partnership with Cordite Publishing Inc. AP is the national representative body for poetry. It is an independent non-profit...
FN COVID-19 Anthology 2021 Open for Submissions
Submissions: open 8 October 2020. They close at 11:59pm 4 December. Publication is planned by First Nations Australia Writers Network FNAWN for March 2021.SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR FN COVID-19 Anthology 2021. POETRY IS GUEST EDITED BY CHARMAINE PAPERTALK GREEN AND...
AP/Smith’s/Poetry on the Move @ Australian Poetry Anthology Vol 8, 2020
For those who missed the live-streamed/zoom APA Vol 8 launch, you can check it here as a free playback. The Anthology, guest edited by Melinda Smith and Sara Saleh, is a bumper volume with more than 120 poets, national in spread but with a focus on ACT poets. You can...
AP/MWF @ Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, Canada with Margaret Atwood reading
The Eden Mills Writers' Festival, in partnership with the League of Canadian Poets, is delighted to join forces with Australian Poetry and the Melbourne Writers Festival to showcase Canadian and Australian poets for audiences in both countries. These two national...
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
FN COVID-19 Anthology 2021 Open for Submissions
Submissions: open 8 October 2020. They close at 11:59pm 4 December. Publication is planned by First Nations Australia Writers Network FNAWN for March 2021.SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR FN COVID-19 Anthology 2021. POETRY IS GUEST EDITED BY CHARMAINE PAPERTALK GREEN AND...
AP @ OutLoud Digital Slam! 2020 Final
After much thought and process Australian Poetry have again decided to come together with Emilie Zoey Baker to present our youth poetry slam competition, OutLoud. For the first time, we are also partnering with the amazing Wheeler Centre, to livestream a Slam Final in...
Anthology Magazine Poetry Prize
Entries are now invited for the Anthology Magazine Poetry Prize. Established to recognise and encourage excellence in the craft of poetry writing and to provide a platform for publication, it is open to original and previously unpublished poems in the English...
NAHR Australian Poetry Fellowship 2020 – Judges’ comments
Mindy Gill is the winner of the 2020 AP / NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship.We are thrilled to announce that Mindy Gill is the winner of the 2020 AP / NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship. Mindy will take up residency in the village of Sottochiesa, Taleggio Valley, northern Italy,...