.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 in solidarity with UWAP
As the national representative body for poetry in Australia, Australian Poetry (AP) wishes to expresses its deep dismay at the decision this week by the University of WA to axe its 84-year-old publishing arm, UWAP, with operations set to cease imminently....
AP@DWF 2019
líneas en tierra / lines in land líneas en tierra / lines in land is a bespoke e-publication produced by Australian Poetry in partnership with the Digital Writers’ Festival 2019. Edited by Tamryn Bennett and Guillermo Bátiz, it showcases selected poems by nine...
AP OutLoud Go Fund Me!
OutLoud dynamo Creative Director whiz Emilie Zoey Baker is on a mission to take the Nossal Ninjas – winners of this year’s OutLoud Secondary Final – to compete in an inter-country school slam in Auckland this December. Please support these four important...
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
The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry
Submission GuidelinesPublishers are invited to enter books published between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2019.Submissions must be received by February 15, 2020.There is a $20 submission fee. Unlimited submissions are allowed, but each book requires...
Entries Open – NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2020
Entries close at 5pm Monday 14 October 2019 so be sure to get your entry in soon. The NSW Premier's Literary Awards are the richest state-based literary awards in the country with up to $305,000 in prize money to be awarded in 2020. The categories offered...
The Annual W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia
'We who care deeply about the arts find ourselves the priesthood of an almost forgotten faith, and we must, I think, if we would win the people again, take upon ourselves the method and fervour of a priesthood. We must be humble and half-proud. . . . We...