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Senior Editor Opportunity (Closed)
Senior Editor, Australian Poetry Commission, oversee and deliver the flagship poetry publications of Australian Poetry, Australia’s national poetry organisation. Australian Poetry’s Board of Directors is seeking a Senior Editor to take responsibility for...
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR APJ 14.2 ‘unthemed’ – GUEST EDITED BY ALISON J BARTON AND BONNY CASSIDY (Closed)
Published by Australian Poetry with the support of Creative Australia and Creative Victoria. The volume will also include selections from recent poetry collections. . Submissions Open: 17 April 2025–8 May 2025, 11:59PM (AEST). Submission Form: >>Wufoo Form Link...
Chief Executive Officer & Publisher Opportunity (Closed)
Chief Executive and Publisher, Australian Poetry An opportunity to lead Australian Poetry’s strategy, operations, and finances while championing poetry and supporting Australia’s poetry community. Australian Poetry’s Board of Directors is seeking a Chief...
Best of Australian Poems 2024 Showcase (Event Concluded)
Be inspired by a collection of our finest poets who have distilled the indelible events, challenges and triumphs of the past year into thought-provoking works for Best of Australian Poems 2024. Edited by Shastra Deo and Kate Lilley, Best of Australian Poems is...
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
Announcing the 2024 Anne Elder Award Judging Panel
Australian Poetry is delighted to announce the three judges for the Anne Elder Award 2024 panel are Jeanine Leane, Theodore Ell, and Ella Skilbeck-Porter. Theodore was the 2022 Anne Elder Award co-winner with Harry Reid (a judge last year) and Ella was Highly...
Australian Poetry Announces the 2024 Anne Elder Award Call-Out (Closed)
Australian Poetry Announces the 2024 Anne Elder Award Call-Out KEY DATES FOR THE 2024 AWARD, for first books published during 2024. Open call for entries – Monday, 27 January 2025. Close of entries – Monday, 17 March 2025, 5pm (AEST) (EXTENDED UNTIL: Monday, 24 March...
Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2024 Call-out (Closed)
Best of Australian Poems 2024 Publisher: Australian Poetry / Imprint, Puncher & Wattmann Call-out: opens 3 July 2024. Closes 1 August 2024, 11:59PM. **Please be advised that if you encounter the message "Sorry, but Best of Australian Poetry 2023 is no longer...
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...